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

Analysis - Kirsty Coventry's story is one of apparent contradictions. She's a white woman celebrated as a national hero in a ...

She retired after her fifth Olympics, in Rio, having (at the time) won the joint-most individual women’s swimming medals in the history of the Games. Her success made her a national treasure in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Zimbabwe swimmer and Olympic Gold medallist Kirsty Coventry has stunned the world by landing the biggest job in sport and creating history at the historically conservative IOC. The surprise ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has had an eventful career, from the pool, to parliament. The country's former dictator, Robert Mugabe, called her "a golden girl, ...

“The young girl who first started swimming in Zimbabwe all those years ago could never have dreamt of this moment,” Coventry said after the vote in Greece. “I am particularly proud to be the ...