Kirsty Coventry will succeed the ninth IOC President, Thomas Bach, whose 12-year tenure will officially end after Monday 23 June 2025. The President is elected by the IOC Members by secret ballot ...

In recognition of her lifelong commitment to sport, equality and the Olympic values, Olympic pioneer and long-serving ...

Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), says its members have shown "overwhelming support" to protecting the female category in sport.

Kirsty Coventry, the new IOC president, discussed the "unanimous" support to protect women's sports amid transgender athlete concerns in her first official address on Thursday.

Former Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry took over the leadership of the International Olympic Committee from Thomas Bach in a ceremony on Monday with the 2028 Los Angeles Games already threatening ...

Zimbabwean athlete Kirsty Coventry is facing great expectations after her official inauguration as the 10th president of the ...

In some ways, one of the longest-serving members of the International Olympic Committee, Anita DeFrantz, paved the way for the new president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, to get to where she is today.

The International Olympic Committee will take the lead in discussions on gender eligibility criteria in sports, its new President Kirsty Coventry said on Thursday, four years after the ruling body had ...

New IOC President Kirsty Coventry announced an effort to find agreement on protecting the 'female category' in sports, a move that could affect transgender athlete participation at the Olympics.

Coventry will now serve an eight-year term. In her first speech as IOC president, she praised the “passion and purpose” of her predecessor and thanked him for keeping the Olympic movement “united in ...

Coventry has long-standing ties with the United States, dating back to her time as a leading swimmer at Auburn University in ...