Mounir Sabet

Mounir Sabet was an Egyptian general and sports official.

Biography

Born on 29 October 1936 in the Upper Egyptian city of Qena, Mounir Sabet was the son of Saleh Sabet, an Egyptian pediatrician, and his Welsh wife Lily May Palmer. Mounir Sabet's sister Suzanne was the wife of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, thus the former First Lady of Egypt.
Mounir Sabet was a member of the 1965 Egyptian national shooting team. He served as president of the Egyptian Olympic Committee from 1990 to 1993, and again from 1996 to 2009. He was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1998 to 2016 and became an Honorary Member in 2017.
Sabet died on 3 March 2024, at the age of 87.