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Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and African to ever be elected to the position.

(CNN) — Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Coventry will formally replace her mentor Bach on June 23 — officially Olympic Day — as the 10th IOC president in its 131-year history. Bach reached the maximum 12 years in office.

Coventry's first Olympic competition as IOC president will be at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games in Italy. Coventry won gold in the 200-meter backstroke in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008.

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports, and aged just 41. The ...

By Ben Morse and Aleks Klosok, CNN (CNN) — Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and African to ever be ...

And after a 30-minute break, Coventry was announced as Bach’s replacement and the 10th president of the IOC; of the 97 votes, Coventry received 49, while second-placed Juan Antonio Samaranch got 28.