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.

The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role Monday on the organization's 131st birthday with praise that the Olympic movement was “in the best ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, emerging from a contentious seven-candidate race Thursday to take hold of one of ...

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 ...

Kirsty Coventry was announced the new International Olympic Committee president Thursday at the committee’s 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece. (Thanassis Stavrakis / Associated ...

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.

Coventry's election was the result of a stunning first-round win in the seven-candidate contest after voting by 97 IOC members. Kirsty Coventry was elected as IOC President, over fellow ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports, and aged just 41.