Swimmers at the 2007 All-Africa Games

Kirsty Leigh Coventry Seward is a Zimbabwean politician, sports administrator, and former competitive swimmer who is the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She has served as the president of the IOC since 23 June 2025, and is the first woman, the first Zimbabwean, and the first African to hold the office, while also only the second non-European president of the IOC, following Avery Brundage who left office in 1972. Coventry served in the Cabinet of Zimbabwe from September 2018 to March 2025 as the Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation until September 2023 and then as Minister of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture. A former Olympic swimmer and world record holder, she is the most decorated African Olympian.

South African Olympic swimmer

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South African and American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder

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Botswana swimmer (* 1988)

Kenyan Olympic swimmer, media personality, rapper and entrepreneur

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Senegalese swimmer

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Senegalese swimmer

Tunisian swimmer (1989-)

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