{"id":36574,"date":"2025-03-20T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/kirsty-coventry-elected-first-female-president-of-ioc-as-coe-denied-in-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:23:46","slug":"kirsty-coventry-elected-first-female-president-of-ioc-as-coe-denied-in-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/kirsty-coventry-elected-first-female-president-of-ioc-as-coe-denied-in-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirsty Coventry elected first female president of IOC as Coe denied in vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Zimbabwean former swimmer won majority in first round<\/li>\n<li>Sebastian Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr lose out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The former Olympic swimming champion Kirsty Coventry has become the first woman to lead the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year history, after winning a shock first round win over a seven-strong field that included Britain\u2019s Sebastian Coe.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old Coventry won 49 of the 97 votes of the IOC membership, giving her an immediate majority and also making her the first African to become IOC president and the most powerful woman in global sport.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/20\/kirsty-coventry-elected-first-female-president-ioc-sebastian-coe-denied-vote\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean former swimmer won majority in first round Sebastian Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr lose out The former Olympic swimming champion Kirsty Coventry has become the first woman to lead the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year history, after winning a shock first round win over a seven-strong field that included Britain\u2019s Sebastian Coe. &#8230; <a title=\"Kirsty Coventry elected first female president of IOC as Coe denied in vote\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/kirsty-coventry-elected-first-female-president-of-ioc-as-coe-denied-in-vote\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kirsty Coventry elected first female president of IOC as Coe denied in vote\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}