The five-time Olympian was known to be the preferred candidate of the outgoing president, Thomas Bach, and required just one ...

It is a signal that we are truly global,” the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medallist said.

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to ...

Sebastian Coe - who said occupying the Olympic Movement's highest office was a role he had been "training for for the best ...

Lord Coe was beaten to the presidency by Zimbabwean former swimmer Kirsty Coventry in a battle for the most powerful post in ...

Lord Coe’s bid to become president of the International Olympic Committee has ended in defeat, with Kirsty Coventry of ...

Coventry succeeds the German Thomas Bach, who steps down after 12 years, and told her fellow IOC members she would work with ...

Kirsty Coventry, the two time Olympic gold medal winning swimmer from Zimbabwe, has been elected as the International Olympic ...

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 also be ...

Spread This News Olympics.com Kirsty Coventry has been elected the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee. The 41-year-old Zimbabwean was chosen in a secret ballot of seven ...

The double Olympic champion breaks down one of the most impregnable walls for women in sport. Kirsty Coventry wrote her name forever in the universal encyclopedias by becoming the first woman in ...