Kirsty Coventry, selected as first female IOC President | News at the Olympic Games

Coventry wins the race to inherit Thomas Bach and will be the first African, who will become the head of the International Olympic Committee.

Kurt Coventry crashed through the glass ceiling of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to become the first woman of the organization and the first African president in her 130-year history.

The Zimbaby swimwear, who is already rising a figure in the Olympic circles, appeared triumphantly on Thursday in the race to replace Thomas Bach, providing the highest work on World Sport and introducing a new era for the games.

“It's a really powerful signal,” she smiled when the victory sank.

Coventry needed only one round of voting to reach the race to inherit Bach, winning an immediate overall majority in the secret vote with 49 of the 97 votes available.

She defeated the second-ranked Juan Antonio Samaranch, Jr., with the Spaniard winning 28 votes. Britain Sebastian Cow, considered one of the first days leading to the vote, in third place with eight votes.

The rest of the votes went to the Frenchman David Lappartent, the prince of Jordan Faisal Al Hussein, the Swed -born Johan Eliash and Japan Morinari Vatanabe.

“This is not just a huge honor, but it is a reminder of my commitment to each of you that I will lead this organization with so much pride,” said a shining Coventry to my IOC colleagues at the luxury seaside resort in southwestern Greece in the IOC session in Greece.

“I will make all of you very, very proud and I hope extremely confident in the choice you have taken today, thank you from the heart,” she added.

Coventry said he wanted to gather all the candidates.

“I'll sit with President Bach. We'll have a few months to broadcast. And what I want to focus on is to unite all the candidates. There have been so many good ideas and exchanged in the last six months.

“Look at the IOC and our Olympic Movement and Family and decide how exactly we will move on in the future. What do we want to focus in the first six months? I have some ideas, but part of my campaign was to listen to the IOC members and hear what we need to say and hear how we want to move together.”

Coventry was only the second women's candidate to ever stand up for the IOC presidency, and the first to have a realistic chance to win it, said Andrew Richardson of Al Jazeera, reporting Greece.

“Thomas Bach put her in a series of positions in the IOC to try to give her the best possible platform to show her diplomatic and administrative skills, and she progresses through the ranks very quickly,” Richardson said.

“Keep in mind that this is an organization that has not only had its first wife president. Until 1981, there were no women's members of the IOC, so a breakthrough for the International Olympic Committee.”