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 is already very different to the one she was elected in three months ago.

Kirsty Coventry broke several barriers when she became the president of the International Olympic Committee on Monday, as she is both the first woman and first African person to hold the position.

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 ...

I believe her style is going to fit perfectly with Utah,” Bullock, president and executive chair of Utah’s Organizing Committee for the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, told the Deseret News ...

New International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry is establishing working groups to examine the process for ...

Kirsty Coventry is not only a sports administrator and politician, but also a mother. She gave birth to her second daughter less than six months ago. Her eldest is six years old.

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. Kirsty Coventry made sporting history ...

Kirsty Coventry, the new IOC president, discussed the "unanimous" support to protect women's sports amid transgender athlete concerns in her first official address on Thursday.

T he International Olympic Committee (IOC) is set to select a new president this week to succeed Thomas Bach. In a field of seven candidates, Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, Africa's most decorated ...

FILE -Kirsty Coventry reacts after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, March 20, 2025.

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.