The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role on Monday ...

The world Kirsty Coventry walks into Monday as the International Olympic Committee’s first female and first African president ...

Kirsty Coventry made history as the first female and first African president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in ...

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry was elected as the first woman and the first person from Africa to the post of International Olympic Committee president in March. She has now taken over from Thomas Bach of ...

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Fraser Bullock is eager for the new International Olympic Committee president, Kirsty Coventry, of Zimbabwe, to come to Utah ...

History making and Zimbabwe's most decorated Olympian Kirsty Coventry has officially taken the helm of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) becoming the first woman ever to lead the global ...

Coventry detailed her vision for an IOC presidency in her candidate manifesto published last December (soon after she gave ...

President-elect Kirsty Coventry during the IOC Presidency handover ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland, 23 June 2025 ...

Olympic Day was the official handover between outgoing International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach and his successor Kirsty Coventry. Coventry is the first female and first African IOC ...