Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero ...

Her poor performance as Zimbabwe's sports minister and her leaning into the role of the soft face of Zimbabwe's brutal regime ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected as the first female ... multi-round voting process during the IOC session at a luxury resort in Pyros, Greece. She received 49 of the 97 votes, well ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the first woman president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Africa’s most decorated Olympian and Zimbabwe’s minister of sport since 2018 secured ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. "It is a ...

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry reacts after setting a ... But in the end, it wasn’t even close. The IOC said Coventry received 49 of the 97 votes cast in a secret ballot. Samaranch received 28 ...

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry has become the first woman and ... being elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at its General Assembly on Thursday (March 20, 2025).

The International Olympic Committee elected its first female president Thursday by choosing Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry ... she also became an IOC member. Coventry has been seen as a strong ...

Kirsty Coventry will become the IOC's 10th president after members from ... she could have never imagined back in her home country of Zimbabwe at nine years old, when she set a goal to go to ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry arrived Sunday ... was the only female candidate in the IOC presidency race and became the first ...

First African and female IOC president Focus on transparency and new sports for youth Aims to enhance athlete representation PYLOS, Greece, March 20 (Reuters) - Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic ...