Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected president of the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), making her the primary girl and the primary African to carry the highest job in world sports activities.
Coventry surprisingly obtained an total majority within the first spherical of voting by the IOC membership from seven candidates.
The 41-year-old succeeds German Thomas Bach, whose tenure ends after 12 years.
Bach will step down on 23 June, with Coventry, who was mentioned to be Bach’s most popular candidate, taking up because the tenth president within the 131-year historical past of the IOC the following day.
Coventry is a double Olympic swimming champion and sports activities minister of Zimbabwe.
She has been an IOC member since 2013.
“This a rare second,” she mentioned in a primary temporary speech to the members, talking of “an enormous honour” and including: “Thanks from the underside of my coronary heart and now we’ve got some work to do.” (NAN)
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