Swimmers at the 2011 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 swimmer

Egyptian swimmer

South African Olympic swimmer

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

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Kenyan Olympic swimmer, media personality, rapper and entrepreneur

Rwandan swimmer

Nigerian swimmer

Algerian swimmer

Angolan swimmer

Algerian swimmer

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Tunisian swimmer

Malian swimmer (* 1987)

Senegalese swimmer

South Afrcian swimmer

Tunisian swimmer

Algerian swimmer

Egyptian swimmer

Senegalese swimmer

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Republic of the Congo swimmer

Tunisian swimmer (1989-)

Senegalese swimmer

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South African swimmer

Nigerian swimmer

Mozambican swimmer

South African swimmer

Kenyan swimmer

South African swimmer

Seychellois swimmer