Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic champion swimmer turned sports administrator, was on Thursday elected as the new president of the ...

Ms. Coventry, a former Olympic swimming champion who has been Zimbabwe’s sports minister, faces urgent issues including the ...

Twice Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge will run the Sydney ... became in 2019 the first man to run a marathon in under two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna. That did not count ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th ...

Yang Yang, China's first Winter Olympic champion and a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] "The ...

She won Poland’s first Olympic gold medal in the women’s discus at the 1928 Amsterdam Games, marking a historic milestone in the nation’s sporting history. Z okazji 125. rocznicy urodzin ...

LONDON (AP) — Jade Jones, a two-time Olympic ... champion. Jones competed in the 57-kilogram category, which would make her a featherweight in boxing. She was 19 when she won Britain's first ...

She was bidding to become the first three-time Olympic champion in the sport's history and defeat left Jones "devastated". Jones lost to Macedonia's Miljana Reljikj on the number of registered ...

2012 and 2016 Olympic ... 2019 world champion and a three-time European champion in the discipline. The 31-year-old competed at the 2024 Games in Paris before suffering a shock first-round defeat ...