Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth 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.

Australian swimmer

Zimbabwean-South African former Olympic swimmer; wife of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Jamaican sprinter

Australian short-distance runner

Australian road bicycle racer

British former professional road and track racing cyclist

Mozambican athlete

Jamaican track and field sprint athlete

Nauruan sportperson and politician

British racing driver and former track cyclist

New Zealand shot putter (1984-)

British triple jumper (born 1966)

Cameroonian and French athletics competitor

English long-distance runner

Indian sport shooter

Kenyan runner

British middle distance athlete and Olympic gold medallist

Welsh athlete and sports commentator

Namibian track and field sprinter

Saint Kitts and Nevis sprinter

athletics competitor

Indian long jumper

Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder

Qatari-Kenyan long-distance runner

athletics competitor

Canadian speed skater and cyclist

South African high jumper

Jamaican sprint athlete

Australian swimmer (1980-)

Bahamian athletics competitor

Welsh cyclist

South African middle distance runner (1980-2014)

Australian cyclist

South African swimmer

Australian cyclist

Australian cyclist

British triple jumper

Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder

Australian hurdler and bobsledder

Canadian triathlete

Australian racewalker

Malaysian squash player

Bahamian sprint athlete

Australian cyclist

racing cyclist

British sprinter (born 1973)

Kenyan distance runner

Australian cyclist

Canadian diver and broadcaster

Welsh 400m runner

New Zealand Olympic triathlete

Australian cyclist

British javelin thrower

Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player

South African swimmer

Olympic wrestler

New Zealand discus thrower

Bahamian triple jumper

English sprint athlete