Nezha Bidouane signs World Championships bodysuit for the IAAF Athletics for a Better World (© FRMA)
time 400m Hurdles World champion Nezha Bidouane of Morocco donated her 2001 World Championships winning competition kit to the IAAF's Athletics for a Better World humanitarian project.
Bidouane became the first Moroccan woman to win a gold medal at the World Championships back in Athens 1997 when defeating the then Olympic champion Deon Hemmings and World record holder Kim Batten in a superb final.
Winner of the African Championships in 1990 and 1998, Bidouane won her second World title in Edmonton 2001 wearing the bodysuit and spikes she decided to donate to the IAAF.
Now retired from competition, Bidouane was one of the IAAF Ambassadors and lecturers at this summer's IAAF Class of Future Champions held in Marrakech, Morocco in conjuction with the IAAF World Junior Championships.
Bidouane's autographed donations will be auctioned soon and all profits will be donated to the United Nations Associations: FAO, UNICEF and WFP.