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Coventry becomes first woman to lead IOC
Gulf Today
|March 21, 2025
Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and African to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday, saying it was an “extraordinary moment”.
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At 41, the two-time Olympic swimming champion is also the youngest ever person to hold the most powerful position in sports governance.
Coventry, the Zimbabwean sports minister, is a close ally of the German Thomas Bach, who steps down as IOC supremo after 12 years.
She told her fellow IOC members she would work with the six other heavyweight rivals she beat in the election.
"This is an extraordinary moment. As a nine-year-old girl I never thought that I would be standing up here one day, getting to give back to this incredible movement of ours," Coventry said.
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