IOC outgoing president Thomas Bach shows the name of Kirsty Coventry during the 144th IOC Session on the day of the election of the next President of the International Olympic Committee, in Costa Navarino, Greece on March 20, 2025. Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on March 20, 2025.
ATHENS - Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and the first African to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday.
This is how her fellow IOC members voted in just one round of voting (members from a country of a candidate are not permitted to vote until they are eliminated):
Votes cast: 97
Kirsty Coventry (ZIM) 49
Juan Antoinio Samaranch Junior (ESP) 28
Sebastian Coe (GBR) 8
David Lappartient (FRA) 4
Morinari Watanabe (JPN) 4
Johan Eliasch (SWE) 2
Prince Feisal Al-Hussein (JOR) 2