AFRICA is optimistic as the start of Kirsty Coventry’s term as the first African and female International Olympic Committee ...

KIRSTY Leigh Coventry is set to make history as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), succeeding Germany’s Thomas Bach on June 23. Her election marks a pivotal moment for ...

Zimbabwe's Sports Minister and double Olympic swimming champion, Kirsty Coventry, is the first African and youngest person, at 41, to assume the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ...

The International Olympic Committee has got a new presidentThe 144th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Greece has ...

In the exclusive members section, the 41-year-old winner celebrated with IOC members and staff while losers including Lord Coe and Johan Eliasch were left to lick their wounds in the more ...

Coventry defeated four presidents of sports governing bodies: World Athletics’ Sebastian Coe, skiing’s Johan Eliasch, cycling’s David Lappartient and gymnastics’ Morinari Watanabe. Also contending ...

PYLOS, Greece–Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organization’s first female and first African president in its ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected the first female and African president of the International Olympic Committe ...

Kirsty Coventry’s rise to the pinnacle of world sport was complete in a matter of minutes. She required just one, short round of voting in Thursday’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidential ...

“We will all be behind her.” Also in the race were four presidents of sports governing bodies: Track and field's Sebastian Coe, skiing's Johan Eliasch, cycling’s David Lappartient, and ...

The remaining four were even further behind: David Lappartient, Morinari Watanabe, Jordan's Prince Feisal Al Hussein and Johan Eliasch, who together received only 12 votes (12.36%). Nevertheless ...