It took only 10 minutes and one round of voting for Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry to be elected to the most powerful administrative and political position in sport. Coventry won 49 of the 97 available votes in the first ballot to sweep to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency by a landslide.

Behind closed doors inside a resort in western Greece, International Olympic Committee members elected the first female president of the largest global sporting organization on Thursday. Kirsty Coventry will become the IOC's 10th president after members from across the world cast their secret vote on the first ballot.

Kirsty Coventry was elected as the first female president and the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday, March 20, at the 144th IOC Session in Costa Navarino. The seven-time Olympic swimming medalist also became the first African to lead the IOC.