Kirsty Coventry

Kirsty Coventry
Kirsty Coventry at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games
Personal information
Surname:	Kirsty Leigh Coventry
Nation:	Zimbabwe
Swimming style (s) :	Layers, backs
Birthday:	September 16, 1983
Place of birth:	Harare
Size:	1.73 m
Medal table

Kirsty Leigh Coventry (born September 16, 1983 in Harare ) is a former swimmer from Zimbabwe and since September 2018, in the Mnangagwa cabinet , her country's sports minister .

Career

Coventry rose to the top when she moved to Auburn University in the USA and trained there. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , she was the first female swimmer from Zimbabwe to reach an Olympic semifinal. Finally a popular hero of their home the Sportswoman of the Year 2000 in Zimbabwe at the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens , the first when she Olympic champion was their country in a single competition. Coventry won a total of three medals: gold over 200 m backseat, silver over 100 m backseat and bronze over 200 m medley.

At the 2005 World Swimming Championships in Montréal , she first won the silver medal over 200 m individual medley, then over 100 m back in front of Antje Buschschulte and over 200 m back the gold medal. On the last day of the World Championships, she was able to add a silver medal in the 400 m individual medal behind the American Katie Hoff , who was already ahead of her in the 200 m individual medal , to her collection.

Kirsty Coventry was the most successful participant in swimming world championships in 2005 and started for the US university swimming team Auburn Tigers .

16 February 2008 Coventry was existing for over 16 years world record of Krisztina Egerszegi break on the 200 m backstroke distance. But just five months later, at the Olympic Games in the USA , the American swimmer Margaret Hoelzer lowered Coventry's record by another 30 hundredths.

In the same year Coventry took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. There she won the gold medal over 200 m back and three silver medals. Over 200 m and 400 m individual medley she was beaten only by Australian Stephanie Rice , over 100 m back by American Natalie Coughlin .

At the 2011 African Games she won over 100 meters back and 200 meters and 400 meters medley.

She has been an IOC member since 2013 .

Web links

• Profile at the Auburn Tigers (English)
• Kirsty Coventry in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Olympic swimmer Coventry new minister of sport in Zimbabwe. US Today, September 7, 2018.