00:00History has been made as 41-year-old swimmer Kirsty Coventry, who won two Olympic gold
00:06medals and heels from Zimbabwe, will replace Thomas Baksh.
00:10She was happy the members voted beyond her gender and country.
00:14I'm grateful as well to have been given a platform to work extremely hard over the last
00:22six months with IOC members to really, as you said, make sure that they know who I am
00:31and what values I hold dearly and it wasn't just about being a woman or being from Africa.
00:37I'm so grateful that the members saw more than just gender or where I come from.
00:45She defeated world athletics boss Lord Sebastian Coe by securing 49 of the 97 votes in the
00:50first round in Greece.
00:52Runner-up Juan Antonio Samarang Jr. won 28 votes.
00:57According to the BBC, France's David Lappartient and Japan's Morinari Watanabe earned four
01:04votes each, while Prince Faisal Al Hussein of Jordan and Sweden's Johan Eliaks both took
01:11two.
01:12Coventry, a sports minister in Zimbabwe, is the 10th person to hold the highest office
01:16in sport.
01:18Previously, she had won seven of Zimbabwe's eight Olympic medals.
01:22Now she can add another title as she sits on the throne of the IOC.
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