Trailblazer
/ˈtɹeɪlˌbleɪ.zə/
"Trailblazer" in a Sentence (3 examples)
He is a trailblazer in this field.
Jane Goodall is a trailblazer for women in science.
Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.