Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports aged just 41.
The Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist got a stunning first-round win in the seven-candidate contest after voting by nearly 100 of her colleagues in the IOC membership.
It had been the most open and hard-to-call IOC presidential election in decades with no clear front-runner before the vote.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)
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