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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has elected a woman as its president for the first time ever. Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry is also the youngest ever IOC president and the first from an ...

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).

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.

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 ...