A seven-time Olympic medalist, Coventry emphasized the need to protect the female category during her campaign to be IOC President. The 41-year-old from Zimbabwe is a seven-time Olympic medalist.

Kirsty Coventry made sporting history by being elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at its General Assembly on March 20, 2025. On Monday (June 23, 2025) she officially ...

Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), says its members have shown "overwhelming support" to protecting the female category in sport.

The first female and first African president of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry was inaugurated in the role Monday on the organization's 131st birthday with praise that the ...

Kirsty Coventry, the newly elected president of the International Olympic Committee, emphasized collaboration with stakeholders as a key priority for her tenure, in remarks made Thursday in Berlin ...

GENEVA (AP) — The world Kirsty Coventry walks into Monday as the International Olympic Committee’s first female and first African president is already very different to the one she was elected ...

SPORT, Recreation, Arts and Culture minister, Anselem Sanyatwe, has begun a major shakeup in Zimbabwe sport, announcing a new board for the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC). The board will be ...

FILE -Kirsty Coventry, of Zimbabwe, kisses her gold medal after winning the 200-meter backstroke at the Olympic Aquatic Centre during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Aug. 20, 2004., File) ...

Kirsty Coventry was inaugurated Monday as the new president of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the first woman and first African to hold perhaps the most powerful seat in global sports.

FILE -Kirsty Coventry reacts after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, March 20, 2025.