Kirsty coventry net worth
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Beyond the Olympics.
Kirsty is a role model and hugely inspirational figure for many women and young people across Africa and the world of sport. Her memberships on the International Olympic Committee, World Anti-Doping Agency, International Surfing Federation and FINA are playing a key part in expanding the global Olympic movement and the development of sport.
Affectionately known as Zimbabwe's 'National Treasure' and 'Golden Girl', Kirsty continues to invest her time and experience in Africa. She is a member of the ANOCA Athlete's Commission, Vice-President of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee, provides coaching and swimming lessons at her non-profit organization, the Kirsty Coventry Academy, and has recently launched a program for low-income and underserved areas - HEROES: Empowering children through sport.
Global Impact
FINA
As an athlete committee member Kirsty is responsible for bringing the input of athletes’ experience to FINA and to collaborate in the Technical Rules proposals and amendments for each discipline, and to be in contact with
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The most successful African Olympian in history!
Dream. Believe. Persevere.
When Kirsty was 9-years old she told her parents she would go to the Olympic Games and win Gold. Her first Olympic Games was Sydney in 2000. In 2004, Kirsty won her first Olympic gold medal in Athens as well as silver and bronze. The moment marked the beginning of a record-breaking athletic career, with Kirsty ultimately becoming one of the world’s highest achieving female swimmers.
She went on to win another gold and three silver medals at the Beijing Olympic Games - a shining light for her fellow African athletes across all sporting disciplines.
Kirsty qualified for the London Olympics in 2012 and then incredibly again for Rio de Janiero in in 2016, making it her 5th games!
It does not matter where you come from...
Twice crowned Olympic champion, and with seven Olympic medals, Kirsty has won more individual Olympic medals than any female swimmer in history. She is also, without doubt, Africa’s most successful Olympic athlete, and her incredible journey has inspired - and con
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Kirsty Coventry
Zimbabwean politician and swimmer (born 1983)
Kirsty Leigh Coventry Seward (néeCoventry; born 16 September 1983) is a Zimbabwean swimmer and politician currently serving as the Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation in the Cabinet of Zimbabwe since September 2018. A former Olympic swimmer and world record holder, she is the most decorated Olympian from Africa. She is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and was elected the Chairperson of the IOC Athletes' Commission, the body that represents all Olympic athletes worldwide in early 2018.
Born in Harare, Coventry attended and swam competitively for Auburn University in Alabama, in the United States.[1] At the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, Coventry won three Olympic medals: a gold, a silver, and a bronze,[2] while in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she won four medals: a gold and three silver. She was subsequently described by Paul Chingoka, head of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee, as "our national treasure".[1]
Zimbabwean President Robert
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