Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, emerging from a contentious seven-candidate race Thursday to take hold of one of ...

IOC President Thomas Bach, right, gestures to Kirsty Coventry after she was announced as the new IOC president at the International Olympic Committee 144th session on March 20, 2025, in Costa ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday, becoming the Switzerland-based organization’s first woman and first African leader. “This is an ...

Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and African to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, saying it was an "extraordinary moment". At 41, the two-time ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee and becomes the first woman and first African to get arguably the biggest job in global sports. The Zimbabwe ...

PYLOS, Greece (Reuters) - Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, securing victory in a high-stakes vote at a luxury seaside resort in Greece’s ...

The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa’s most decorated Olympian and a minister in a government often accused of oppressing political ...

The former swimming star succeeds the outgoing president, Thomas Bach of Germany.Kirsty Coventry has made sporting history by being elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a ... of oppressing political opposition. Kirsty Coventry, 41, was elected to one of the most powerful ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th president overall of the organization that was founded in 1894.