International Olympic Committee elected Soraya Aghaei as its first female member from Iran

¨     International Olympic Committee elected Soraya Aghaei as its first female member from Iran.

¨     She also became the youngest current IOC member at age 30.
¨     Aghaei is the 107th member of the IOC and only the third Iranian representative in IOC history.
¨     She is the first Iranian IOC member since 2004. She has been elected for an eight-year term.
¨     Aghaei joins the IOC under the first female president in its 132-year history, Kirsty Coventry. Women now make up 45% of the IOC membership.
¨     Samira Asghari of Afghanistan was reelected for a second term.
¨     Aghaei competed in badminton at the Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics and became Iran’s first female badminton Olympian.
¨     The IOC is an exclusive body, including former athletes, sports leaders, royalty, politicians, and diplomats, industrialists and Oscar-winning actress.