won the joint-most individual women’s swimming medals in the history of the Games. Her success made her a national treasure in Zimbabwe, but that status has also proved something of a thorn in ...

The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa's most decorated Olympian and a minister in a government often accused of oppressing political ...

Kirsty Coventry’s rise to political importance as a white woman in a black majority Zimbabwe shows how sport is able to ...

Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has been elected to head the International Olympic Committee. The two-time gold medalist is marking a... Zimbabwean millennial Kirsty Coventry gets ...

Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organisation’s first female and first African president in its 130-year history.

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 ...

Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry became the first ... the two-time Olympic swimming champion is also the youngest ever elected to be the most powerful person in sports governance. She succeeds Thomas ...

Kirsty Coventry, a former Zimbabwean swimmer, won the race to be the next president of the International Olympic Committee, the most powerful job in world sport. After a single round of voting at a ...

Former Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry, has been elected as the next President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), making history as the first woman and first African to hold the post ...