Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry elected as 1st-ever female IOC president

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Behind closed doors wrong a edifice successful occidental Greece, International Olympic Committee members elected the archetypal pistillate president of the largest planetary sporting enactment connected Thursday. Kirsty Coventry volition go the IOC's 10th president aft members from crossed the satellite formed their concealed ballot connected the archetypal ballot.

41-year-old was a 7-time medallist successful the excavation implicit 5 Olympic Games

Karissa Donkin · CBC Sports

· Posted: Mar 20, 2025 11:28 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

A pistillate speaks, with the Olympic rings connected a achromatic inheritance down her.

Kirsty Coventry volition go the IOC's 10th president aft members from crossed the satellite formed their concealed ballot and tabbed the 41-year-old connected the archetypal ballot. She volition regenerate outgoing president Thomas Bach, who's held the occupation since 2013, successful June.

Coventry was a seven-time medallist successful the excavation for Zimbabwe implicit 5 Olympic Games, astir precocious competing successful Rio successful 2016. She was doubly an Olympic champion successful the 200-metre backstroke.

In summation to being the archetypal pistillate president, she volition beryllium the youngest to pb the enactment and the archetypal from Africa.

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