Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero’s welcome as her victory is celebrated as a national milestone.

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

The IOC is betting on a younger female leader to signal change. She enters the ring at a crucial time for athletes.

Zimbabwe's Sports Minister and double Olympic swimming champion, Kirsty Coventry, is the first African and youngest person, at 41, to assume the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ...

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed the country’s military boss to replace Kirsty Coventry as sports minister. Mnangagwa says that Gen.

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HARARE – International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s President-elect, Kirsty Coventry was warmly welcomed by IOC President Thomas Bach, IOC Director General Christophe De Kepper and IOC staff at Olympic ...

Five years before her unexpected ascent to the world’s top Olympic post, Kirsty Coventry promised to fix the decrepit aquatic complex where she had often trained in her Zimbabwean childhood.

Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry is also the youngest ever IOC president and the first from an African country, becoming a symbol of the IOC’s drive to diversify its leadership and image.

And this is not just my success, it is our success," said Kirsty Coventry during her reception at Harare Airport. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President-elect and Zimbabwe’s ...

New Minister of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Anselem Sanyatwe, hailed Kirsty Coventry as Zimbabwe’s 'golden girl' and an inspiration to athletes. A farewell dinner honoured her ahead of ...