Hicham El Guerrouj

Won both the 1,500 m and the 5,000 m at the 2004 Athens Olympics, the first man since Paavo Nurmi in 1924 to take both titles at one Games.

Won four straight World Championship 1,500 m titles (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003), set the 1,500 m world record of 3:26.00 in 1998 and was named IAAF World Athlete of the Year three times (2001-2003).

Was elected to the IAAF Athletes Committee in 2003 and served as an athlete member of the International Olympic Committee from 2004 to 2012; in 2014 he joined a children's athletics day in an Atlas Mountains village.

In the Athens 5,000 m final he ran at the curb behind Kenenisa Bekele and Eliud Kipchoge and waited until the last 100 m, winning by two tenths of a second.

This is consistent with holding a patient race plan until the closing metres. Planning Orientation

After being overtaken near the line in the 2000 Sydney 1,500 m, he said it was difficult to start running again but that he trained hard for four more years, and won the 2004 double.

This is consistent with returning to the same goal after a public setback. Persistence

At the 2003 World Championships in Paris he ran the 5,000 m, beating Bekele but losing to Kipchoge, a race the IAAF report describes as a practice run for the 1,500 m and 5,000 m double he completed in 2004.

This is consistent with preparing for a two-event target in advance. Planning Orientation