Fatima El-Faquir (born 1954) is a Moroccan sprinter, coach, and sports professor.
[1] She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and was the first African Champion in 400m hurdles in Dakar in 1979.
[3] She organized events like the Pan Arab Games in Rabat, Morocco in 1985, the Francophone Games in 1989, the Cross Country World Championship in 1998, and the Youth World Championships in Marrakech in 2006.
She holds Presidential positions on the Confederation of African Athletics, North Africa, and the National Association of Women's Physical Activities and Sport.
[4][5] In 2017, she defended her dissertation in French entitled "Moroccan High Level Athletes: Emergence, Visibility, Erasure 1956-2016.