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 ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and African to ever be elected to the position. Coventry, 41, will ...

By Tariq Panja Reporting from the International Olympic Committee meeting in Costa Navarino, Greece Kirsty Coventry was elected on Thursday as the 10th president of the International Olympic ...

Kirsty Gallacher, aged 49, initially mistook a serious health warning sign for a mere cold symptom when she experienced difficulty hearing through her earpiece while on GB News in 2021. The ex-Sky ...

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 ...

March 20 (UPI) --International Olympic Committee members elected Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry as president, replacing Thomas Bach, the committee announced Thursday. Coventry will be the first woman ...

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry has become the first woman and the first person from Africa to be elected to the post. The former swimming star is to succeed the outgoing president, Thomas Bach of Germany.

March 20 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry on her election as International Olympic Committee president on Thursday, saying her "unique ...

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 ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — 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 ...

PYLOS, Greece - Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic champion swimmer turned sports administrator, was on Thursday elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee, marking an historic ...

Zimbabwe sports minster Kirsty Coventry on Thursday became the first woman and first African elected as president of the International Olympic Committee. Coventry, 41, was chosen over six other ...