Charmaine Crooks of Canada was one of five women to be presented with continental trophies for their outstanding role in promoting sport in their countries at an official ceremony held at the headquarters of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarding its main 2006 world “Women and Sport” Trophy to Argentinean tennis player Gabriela Sabatini, while the continental winners were as follows:
- Trophy for Africa: Albertine Barbosa Andrade (Senegal)
- Trophy for America: Charmaine Crooks (Canada)
- Trophy for Asia: Elisa Lee (Korea)
- Trophy for Europe: Dominique Petit (France)
- Trophy for Oceania: Lorraine Mar (Fiji)
Charmaine Crooks, winner of the trophy for America, represented her country, Canada, for almost 20 years on the athletics track. After five Olympic Games, a silver medal won in Los Angeles in 1984, she was elected in 1996 as a member of the IOC Athletes’ Commission and then served as an IOC member until 2004. An active member of the IOC Press Commission, World Olympians Association, Canadian NOC, and Vancouver Organising Committee for the XXI Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2010, Charmaine Crooks also holds other important positions within sports organisations at international, regional and national level. With her passion for sport and keen advocacy for athletes, young people, women in sport and the values of Olympism, Charmaine Crooks has featured regularly on television for more than ten years.
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