The Worldwide Olympic Committee’s subsequent chief might be 41-year-old Kirsty Coventry, who received the IOC election on Thursday. Coventry was elected to some of the highly effective jobs in sports activities on Thursday after profitable 49 votes out of the 97 potential votes. Coventry beat fellow presidential candidates like HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein, David Lappartient, Johan Eliasch, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Lord Sebastian Coe and Morinari Watanabe.
Coventry thus turns into the primary girl and first African to guide the Olympic motion.
Who’s Kirsty Coventry?
Coventry is a former Zimbabwe swimmer, who was Africa’s most adorned Olympian and a minister in a authorities usually accused of oppressing political opposition. She was the back-to-back Olympic champion within the 200 meters backstroke in 2004 and 2008. She retired from swimming after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 with seven Olympic medals, greater than anybody else from Africa.
She can also be at the moment Zimbabwe’s minister of youth, sports activities, arts and recreation, drawing some scrutiny of her affiliation with a authorities that has lengthy confronted accusations of cracking down on democratic freedoms and suppressing criticism within the southern African nation.
Kirsty Coventry’s sporting achievements
5-time Olympian: Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016
7-time Olympic Medalist: 2 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze
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Kirsty Coventry’s IOC posts
IOC Member since 2013
A part of IOC Govt Board (2018-2021, 2023–current)
Chairperson: Athlete Fee (2018–2021)
Chairperson: Coordination Fee Brisbane Olympic Video games 2032 (2021-present)
Chairperson: Coordination Fee Dakar Youth Olympic Video games 2026 (2018-present)
Chairperson: Video games Optimization Working Group (2022-present)
Finance Fee (2023-present)
Olympic Solidarity Fee (2014-present)
Public Affairs and Company Communications (2022-present)
Athletes Fee (2013-2021)
Coordination Fee for the Video games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020 (2014–2021)
Olympic Channel Fee (2015–2018)
Analysis Fee for Paris2024 and LA2028 (2016–2017)
Public Affairs and Social Growth by means of Sport Fee (2016–2018)
Member of the Board of Administrators of Olympic Channel Providers, Switzerland (2018-2021)
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Kirsty Coventry’s different sporting positions
ZIMBABWE NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: Vice President 2017-2018 and Member since 2013
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Vice President of Worldwide Browsing Federation (2017-2024)
Athlete Fee: World Aquatics (2017-2021)
WADA: IOC Athlete Consultant (2012–2021)
WADA: Athlete Committee (2014–2021)
Worldwide Testing Company: (2018-2021)
(With inputs from AP)