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Five-Time Olympian and Olympic Silver Medalist (LA ’84, 4X400m Relay) Charmaine Crooks represented Canada for close to 20 years in Athletics. The first Canadian woman to run 800 meters in under two minutes, she won Gold medals at the Pan American, Commonwealth, World Cup, and the World Student Games. In 1996, she had the honour of being Canada’s Flag Bearer at the Opening Ceremonies of the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games.
Charmaine is President/Founder of NGU Consultants (since 1994), a sports marketing, management and corporate consulting company, which provides strategic counsel and growth strategies to major corporations on a national and global basis. She is also a sought-after Keynote speaker, appearing at national and international conferences, corporate meetings and retreats and speaking on topics ranging from team building, leadership, inspiration and the Olympic Movement.
She was elected to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes Commission in 1996 and was elected as a full voting Member of the IOC from 2000-2004. She continues to serve on the IOC Athletes Commission, has been a Member of the IOC Press Commission since 2001, and was a founding member of the independent IOC Ethics Commission.
As an elected member of the Executive Board of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), she is Chair of the COC’s Awards and Recognition/Hall of Fame Committee. She is also one of twenty Directors for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee (VANOC), and serves on both the VANOC Governance and Strategic Communications Committee.
In 2003, Charmaine was elected by her peers to serve on the Executive Board of the alumni body of Olympians, the World Olympians Association (WOA) and is the current WOA Vice President and Chair of Olympians Canada. She is also the Chair of the PASO Athlete’s Commission.
Career Highlights
- Five-Time Olympian and Olympic Silver Medalist (LA ’84, 4X400m Relay)
- Gold Medalist Pan American Games
- Gold Medalist Commonwealth Games
- Gold Medalist World Cup
- Gold Medalist World Student Games
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