Kirsty Leigh Coventry (born 16 September 1983 in Harare, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean swimmer and former world record holder. She attended and swam competitively for Auburn University in Alabama, in the United States. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, Coventry won three Olympic medals: a gold, a silver, and a bronze, 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". Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has called her "a golden girl," and awarded her US$100,000 in cash for her 2008 Olympic performance.
Biography
Coventry attended Dominican Convent High School, Harare in Zimbabwe. In 2000, while still in high school, Coventry became the first Zimbabwean swimmer to reach the semifinals at the Olympics and was named Zimbabwe's Sports Woman of the Year.
As a student at Auburn University, Coventry helped lead the Tigers to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championships in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, she was the top individual scorer at the NCAA Championships and captured three individual titles including the 200-meter and 400 m individual medley (IM), and the 200 m backstroke for the second consecutive season. She was named the College Swimming Coaches Association Swimmer of the Meet for her efforts. Other awards include 2005 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Swimmer of the Year, and the 2004–05 SEC Female Athlete of the Year. She was also the recipient of the 2004–05 Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year.
Coventry (i/ˈkɒvəntri/) is a city and metropolitan borough in the centre of England. It was the capital of England more than once in the 15thcentury when the seat of Government was held in Coventry. Coventry's heritage includes the Roman Fort at Baginton, Lady Godiva, St Mary's Guildhall (where kings and queens were entertained) and three cathedrals.
Coventry is located in the county of West Midlands but is historically part of Warwickshire. Coventry is the 10th largest city in England and the 13th largest UK city overall. It is also the second largest city in the West Midlands region, after Birmingham, with a population of 337,400 in 2014.
Coventry is situated 95 miles (153km) northwest of central London, 19 miles (31km) east-south-east of Birmingham, 24 miles (39km) southwest of Leicester and 11 miles (18km) north of Warwick. Although harbouring a population of more than a third-of-a-million inhabitants, Coventry is not amongst the English Core Cities Group due to its proximity to Birmingham. Approximately half a million people live within 10 miles (16km) of Coventry city centre.
A waste system company paid the town about $800,000 in "tipping fees" in 2009. This allows the town property tax rate to be zero. However, the town still pays school taxes.
Town
Moderator - Jean Maxwell
Selectman - Mike Marcotte
Town Clerk - Cynthia Diaz
Lister - Rick Bickford
Road Commissioner - David Gallup
School District
Chair, School Board - Viola Poirier
Principal - Matthew Baughman 2012-2013
Budget - $2,625,755
History
Etymology
Town was named for the birthplace of one of the founders, Major Elias Buel, who was born in Coventry, Connecticut.
Post bellum
A record exists from 1860, showing that the "Artillery Company" of the 3rd Regiment mustered for annual drill on June 5. An inventory shows they possessed one six pound brass cannon.
In 1861, the 3rd Vermont Infantry, Company B, was recruited in part from Coventry.
Coventry Festival
In 2004, what was billed as the final concert of the band Phish was held in Coventry on August 14–15. The concert was the single largest gathering of people in the town's history. Some fans had to be turned back due to heavy rains. Even so, with 65,000 attendees Coventry's augmented population was the largest in the state at that time, outranking Burlington, Vermont, which had around 39,000 people in the 2000 census.
Coventry is an unfinished Fantagraphics comic book series by Bill Willingham. Coventry is a fictitious state in an alternate history version of the United States of America in which magical and legendary powers, creatures, villains and heroes are real and a part of everyday life. Coventry ran for only 3 issues, from November 1996 to July 1997. Two short novels set in the same universe, detailing the exploits of the legendary hero Beowulf, were written by Willingham and published by Clockwork Storybook in 2002.
The Coventry comics and the following novels have been praised by critics as "a delicious blend of horror, offbeat humor, great characters and cat-and-mouse plotting" and "sharp, stark and needle-point powerful".
Coventry may have served as a prototype for Willingham's later series, Fables (published by DC Comics, under the Vertigo imprint), which deals with various characters from fairy tales and folklore who have been forced out of their Homelands by a mysterious enemy known as the Adversary.
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Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry is the most decorated Olympian from Africa. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Coventry won three medals, including a gold medal in the 200 meter backstroke. Four years later, at Beijing 2008, she added another four medals, one gold and three silver.
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published: 24 Aug 2022
Kirsty Coventry's World Record at Rome 2009 | FINA World Championships
After a Gold Medal and World Record during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Kirsty Coventry from Simbabwe was the one to beat in the 200m Backstroke Final at the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome. Did she end up claiming another Gold Medal and World Record? Watch this epic moment to find out!
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Kirsty Coventry - The highest number of Olympic Medals in African History
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published: 10 Mar 2015
Mnangagwa praises ‘worst minister’ Kirsty Coventry in Binga | Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa praises ‘worst minister’ Kirsty Coventry in Binga | Zimbabwe
BINGA - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa singled out the special people of Binga for maintaining their unique traditions and culture at a time when the country is facing pressure from Western nations to adopt certain values which are contrary to the traditional norms and beliefs of Zimbabwe.
published: 02 Jun 2023
Hon. Kirsty Coventry In Conversation With Trevor (Full Episode)
Zimbabwean Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Hon. Kirsty Coventry, sits in conversation with Trevor Ncube in the 2nd episode of In Conversation With Trevor. In this episode they discuss her Olympic career, her appointment as Sports Minister, sports administration in Zimbabwe and the International Cricket Council's latest controversial move to suspend Zimbabwe from the ICC.
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published: 22 Jul 2019
Is Kirsty Coventry Now A Politician? | In Conversation with Trevor
In this 2nd episode of In Conversation With Trevor, Zimbabwean Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Hon. Kirsty Coventry discusses her transition from being a sports icon to being the Zimbabwean Sports Minister.
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Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry is the most decorated Olympian from Africa. Two gold medals, four silver and one bronze are quite an impressive medal collection. We bring you all of her Olympic medals! Enjoy!
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published: 15 Jun 2022
Quickfire: Kirsty Coventry
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Zimbabwean swimmer and Olympic gold medal winner Kirsty Coventry reveals her most embarrassing moment in the pool and her proudest achievement in sport.
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Behind the scenes of Rio 2016 with Kirsty Coventry
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Flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony and competing for Zimbabwe in the pool, five time Olympian Kirsty Coventry shares her Rio diary.
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Kirsty Coventry on Renovation of Soccer Stadium in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry on the process of renovating stadia for international soccer games. (VOA)
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Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry is the most decorated Olympian from Africa. At the 2004 Olympics in At...
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Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry is the most decorated Olympian from Africa. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Coventry won three medals, including a gold medal in the 200 meter backstroke. Four years later, at Beijing 2008, she added another four medals, one gold and three silver.
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Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry is the most decorated Olympian from Africa. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Coventry won three medals, including a gold medal in the 200 meter backstroke. Four years later, at Beijing 2008, she added another four medals, one gold and three silver.
We show you all of Kirsty Coventry's Olympic medal performances! Enjoy!
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After a Gold Medal and World Record during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Kirsty Coventry from Simbabwe was the one to beat in the 200m Backstroke Final at ...
After a Gold Medal and World Record during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Kirsty Coventry from Simbabwe was the one to beat in the 200m Backstroke Final at the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome. Did she end up claiming another Gold Medal and World Record? Watch this epic moment to find out!
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After a Gold Medal and World Record during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Kirsty Coventry from Simbabwe was the one to beat in the 200m Backstroke Final at the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome. Did she end up claiming another Gold Medal and World Record? Watch this epic moment to find out!
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Olympic Solidarity scholarships support the athletes in many ways: “I was able to just focus on my goal of becoming an Olympic champion,” acknowledges Kirsty Coventry.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa praises ‘worst minister’ Kirsty Coventry in Binga | Zimbabwe
BINGA - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa singled out the special...
President Emmerson Mnangagwa praises ‘worst minister’ Kirsty Coventry in Binga | Zimbabwe
BINGA - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa singled out the special people of Binga for maintaining their unique traditions and culture at a time when the country is facing pressure from Western nations to adopt certain values which are contrary to the traditional norms and beliefs of Zimbabwe.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa praises ‘worst minister’ Kirsty Coventry in Binga | Zimbabwe
BINGA - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa singled out the special people of Binga for maintaining their unique traditions and culture at a time when the country is facing pressure from Western nations to adopt certain values which are contrary to the traditional norms and beliefs of Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwean Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Hon. Kirsty Coventry, sits in conversation with Trevor Ncube in the 2nd episode of In Conversation Wit...
Zimbabwean Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Hon. Kirsty Coventry, sits in conversation with Trevor Ncube in the 2nd episode of In Conversation With Trevor. In this episode they discuss her Olympic career, her appointment as Sports Minister, sports administration in Zimbabwe and the International Cricket Council's latest controversial move to suspend Zimbabwe from the ICC.
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Zimbabwean Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Hon. Kirsty Coventry, sits in conversation with Trevor Ncube in the 2nd episode of In Conversation With Trevor. In this episode they discuss her Olympic career, her appointment as Sports Minister, sports administration in Zimbabwe and the International Cricket Council's latest controversial move to suspend Zimbabwe from the ICC.
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In this 2nd episode of In Conversation With Trevor, Zimbabwean Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Hon. Kirsty Coventry discusses her transition from...
In this 2nd episode of In Conversation With Trevor, Zimbabwean Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Hon. Kirsty Coventry discusses her transition from being a sports icon to being the Zimbabwean Sports Minister.
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Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry is the most decorated Olympian from Africa. Two gold medals, four silv...
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Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry is the most decorated Olympian from Africa. Two gold medals, four silver and one bronze are quite an impressive medal collection. We bring you all of her Olympic medals! Enjoy!
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Flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony and competing for Zimbabwe in the pool, five time Olympian Kirsty Coventry shares her Rio diary.
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Flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony and competing for Zimbabwe in the pool, five time Olympian Kirsty Coventry shares her Rio diary.
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Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry is the most decorated Olympian from Africa. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Coventry won three medals, including a gold medal in the 200 meter backstroke. Four years later, at Beijing 2008, she added another four medals, one gold and three silver.
We show you all of Kirsty Coventry's Olympic medal performances! Enjoy!
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After a Gold Medal and World Record during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Kirsty Coventry from Simbabwe was the one to beat in the 200m Backstroke Final at the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome. Did she end up claiming another Gold Medal and World Record? Watch this epic moment to find out!
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Olympic Solidarity scholarships support the athletes in many ways: “I was able to just focus on my goal of becoming an Olympic champion,” acknowledges Kirsty Coventry.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa praises ‘worst minister’ Kirsty Coventry in Binga | Zimbabwe
BINGA - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa singled out the special people of Binga for maintaining their unique traditions and culture at a time when the country is facing pressure from Western nations to adopt certain values which are contrary to the traditional norms and beliefs of Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwean Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Hon. Kirsty Coventry, sits in conversation with Trevor Ncube in the 2nd episode of In Conversation With Trevor. In this episode they discuss her Olympic career, her appointment as Sports Minister, sports administration in Zimbabwe and the International Cricket Council's latest controversial move to suspend Zimbabwe from the ICC.
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Kirsty Leigh Coventry (born 16 September 1983 in Harare, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean swimmer and former world record holder. She attended and swam competitively for Auburn University in Alabama, in the United States. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, Coventry won three Olympic medals: a gold, a silver, and a bronze, 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". Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has called her "a golden girl," and awarded her US$100,000 in cash for her 2008 Olympic performance.
Biography
Coventry attended Dominican Convent High School, Harare in Zimbabwe. In 2000, while still in high school, Coventry became the first Zimbabwean swimmer to reach the semifinals at the Olympics and was named Zimbabwe's Sports Woman of the Year.
As a student at Auburn University, Coventry helped lead the Tigers to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championships in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, she was the top individual scorer at the NCAA Championships and captured three individual titles including the 200-meter and 400 m individual medley (IM), and the 200 m backstroke for the second consecutive season. She was named the College Swimming Coaches Association Swimmer of the Meet for her efforts. Other awards include 2005 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Swimmer of the Year, and the 2004–05 SEC Female Athlete of the Year. She was also the recipient of the 2004–05 Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year.
FILE - IOC member and former swimmer Kirsty Coventry smiles on the arrival for a press conference after the executive board meeting of the IOC, at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020 ... .
While most of the manifestos are light on policy, there does appear to be a notable shift among Coe’s main rivals, Juan Antonio Samaranch Jnr, Kirsty Coventry and Prince Feisal Al Hussein, when it comes to protecting women’s sport.
Kirsty Elliott-Sale, professor of female endocrinology and exercise physiology ... Kirsty Coventry, IOC executive committee member ... Coventry is understood to be the candidate most favoured by Bach, who has ...