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

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) ...

Kirsty Coventry, a seven-time Olympic medalist in swimming from Zimbabwe, was elected March 20 as the 10th president of the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

From the list of seven candidates, former Zimbabwean athlete and winner of seven medals, Kirsty Coventry, received the minimum number of votes for a first-round win: 49 of the 97 cast.

Kirsty Coventry's story is one of apparent contradictions. She's a white woman celebrated as a national hero in a Black-majority Zimbabwe and an Olympic swimmer turned politician. She's also now ...

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