Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organisation’s ...

Zimbabwe's sports minister Kirsty Coventry is elected as the new IOC president, becoming the first woman and first African to ...

In a stunning twist, the 41-year-old Coventry secured a majority of the votes on the very first ballot of the election, upending what was expected to be a lengthy, multi-round voting process during ...

Kirsty Coventry will become the 10th International Olympic Committee president - but why is she both a groundbreaking and controversial choice?

The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa’s most decorated ...

Coventry won an overall majority in the very first round, in a shock result that made history. Follow the news and latest updates from the IOC presidential election below. The next Summer Games is ...

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 signal ...

A fortnight after her historic election, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s President-elect, Kirsty Coventry, was ...

One of Coventry’s beaten election rivals, Sebastian Coe, leads World Athletics. It broke an Olympic taboo by paying $50,000 prize money for track and field champions in Paris last year. In Los Angeles ...

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 milestone as the ...

Incoming International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry has revealed to Sky News she is against banning countries from the Olympics over wars and will open talks on Russia being allowed ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the first woman and first African ...