Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed the country’s military boss to replace Kirsty Coventry as sports minister ...

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

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 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 ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected the new president ... "Now we have got some work together." Coventry was Zimbabwe’s sports minister, and outgoing IOC president Thomas Bach had advocated for her ...

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 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 ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Kirsty Coventry ... standards of the IOC. It was the most open and hard-to-call IOC presidential election in decades with Coventry expected to lead the first ...

March 20 (UPI) --International Olympic Committee members elected Zimbabwe's Kirsty ... "Congratulations to Kirsty Coventry on her election as the 10th IOC president," Bach said.

Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the ... Before becoming a member of the IOC, she was a standout athlete for Zimbabwe. Coventry has won seven of the country’s eight Olympic medals to date.

"It is a signal that we are truly global," the Zimbabwe sports minister and ... seven-candidate contest after voting by 97 IOC members. Kirsty Coventry was elected as IOC President, over fellow ...

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. IOC members ...