Kirsty Leigh Coventry Seward has been elected as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president during today’s elections during the extraordinary moment in Costa Navarino, Pylos, Greece
Coventry becomes the first woman and African to fill the seat left by Thomas Bach after collecting 49 votes out of 97 to avoid second round of voting.
The World Athletics preident Lord Sebastien Coe secured a paltry eight as Spain’s Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr, the son former IOC president between 1980 and 2001 collected 28.
The 41 year old is a double Olympic swimming champion and the youngest ever elected to be the most powerful person in sports governance
Bach had served for 12 years, and said d she would work with the six other heavyweight rivals she beat.
Coventry, who was strongly believed to be Bach’s favoured candidate, was thought to be in a tight run race with IOC veteran Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior and World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe.