Olympic Order
Olympic Order | |
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Awarded for | Contribution to the Olympic Movement |
Presented by | International Olympic Committee |
History | |
First award | 1975 |
Most wins | Nadia Comăneci (2 times i.e. 1984, 2004) and; Carlos Arthur Nuzman (2 times i.e. 1992, 2016) |
The Olympic Order, established in 1975, is the highest award of the Olympic Movement. It is awarded for particularly distinguished contributions to the Olympic Movement, i.e. recognition of efforts worthy of merit in the cause of sport. Traditionally, the IOC bestows the Olympic Order upon the chief national organiser(s) at the closing ceremony of each respective Olympic Games.
History[]
The Olympic Order was established in May 1975 by the International Olympic Committee as a successor to the Olympic Diploma of Merit. The Olympic Order originally had three grades (gold, silver and bronze).
In 1984, at the 87th IOC Session in Sarajevo (Yugoslavia), it was decided that in future there would be no distinction between the silver and bronze order. The gold order would continue to be awarded to heads of state and for exceptional circumstances.
Design[]
The insignia of the Olympic Order is in the form of a collar (or chain), in Gold, Silver or Bronze according to grade; the front of the chain depicts the five rings of the Olympic Movement, flanked on either side by kotinos emblem (olive wreath). A lapel badge, in the form of miniature five rings and kotinos in Gold, Silver and Bronze according to grade, is presented to recipients to wear as appropriate.
Recipients[]
The following is a list of recipients of the Olympic Order.
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Gold Olympic Order[]
Year | Recipient | Country | Note |
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1975 | Avery Brundage | United States | |
1980 | Lord Killanin | Ireland | |
1981 | Lord Exeter | United Kingdom | |
Pope John Paul II | Vatican City | [1] | |
Dr. Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow | Senegal | ||
King Olav V | Norway | ||
1982 | Ahmad Shah of Pahang | Malaysia | |
1983 | Indira Gandhi | India | [2][3] |
1984 | Branko Mikulić | Yugoslavia | |
François Mitterrand | France | ||
Peter Ueberroth | United States | ||
1985 | Nicolae Ceauşescu | Romania | |
Erich Honecker | East Germany | ||
King Juan Carlos I | Spain | [4] | |
1986 | Wan Li | China | |
1987 | King Bhumibol Adulyadej | Thailand | |
General Kenan Evren | Turkey | ||
Todor Zhivkov | Bulgaria | [5] | |
1988 | Prince Rainier III | Monaco | |
Prince Bertil Bernadotte | Sweden | ||
Frank Edward King | Canada | ||
Mario Vázquez Raña | Mexico | ||
Park Seh-jik | South Korea | ||
1989 | Raoul Mollet | Belgium | |
Emperor Akihito | Japan | ||
Rafael Hernández Colón | Puerto Rico | ||
1990 | Giulio Andreotti | Italy | |
1991 | Jean de Beaumont | France | |
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi | Japan | ||
West Germany | |||
1992 | Pasqual Maragall | Spain | |
Carlos Arthur Nuzman | Brazil | [6] | |
Michel Barnier | France | ||
Javier Gómez-Navarro | Spain | ||
Spain | |||
Jean-Claude Killy | France | ||
Jordi Pujol | Spain | ||
Leopoldo Rodes | Spain | ||
Carlos Salinas de Gotari | Mexico | ||
Narcís Serra | Spain | ||
Javier Solana | Spain | ||
1993 | Boris Yeltsin | Russia | [7] |
1994 | Gerhard Heiberg | Norway | |
Richard von Weizsäcker | Germany | ||
Nelson Mandela | South Africa | [8] | |
Joaquín Leguina | Spain | ||
Dr. Mauno Koivisto | Finland | ||
King Harald V of Norway | Norway | ||
Queen Sonja of Norway | Norway | ||
1995 | Árpád Göncz | Hungary | |
Robert Mugabe | Zimbabwe | ||
1996 | William Porter Payne | United States | |
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos | Greece | ||
United States | |||
Andrew Young | United States | ||
Islam Karimov | Uzbekistan | ||
1997 | Blaise Compaore | Burkina Faso | |
Omar Bongo | Gabon | ||
Nursultan Nazarbaev | Kazakhstan | ||
Elias Hrawi | Lebanon | ||
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Léon | Mexico | ||
Aleksander Kwasniewski | Poland | ||
Suleyman Demirel | Turkey | ||
1998 | Kim Dae-jung | South Korea | |
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | Luxembourg | [9] | |
Eishiro Saito | Japan | [10] | |
2000 | Adolf Ogi | Switzerland | [11] |
Michael Knight | Australia | ||
John Coates | Australia | [12] | |
2001 | Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said | Oman | [13] |
Goh Chok Tong | Singapore | ||
Vladimir Putin | Russia | ||
Juan Antonio Samaranch | Spain | [14][15] | |
Abdoulaye Wade | Senegal | ||
2002 | Fraser Bullock | United States | |
Jacques Chirac | France | ||
Kéba Mbaye | Senegal | ||
Mitt Romney | United States | ||
2003 | Emile Lahoud | Lebanon | |
John Howard | Australia | ||
2004 | Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | Greece | |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika | Algeria | ||
Johannes Rau | Germany | [16] | |
Greece | |||
2005 | Theodore Angelopoulos | Greece | |
2006 | Valentino Castellani | Italy | |
2007 | Kofi Annan | Ghana | |
2008 | Liu Qi | China | |
2009 | Jack Poole | Canada | Posthumously awarded |
2010 | S. R. Nathan | Singapore | [17] |
Lee Hsien Loong | Singapore | [18] | |
John Furlong | Canada | [19] | |
2012 | Lord Coe | United Kingdom | |
Lord Deighton | United Kingdom | ||
2013 | King Willem-Alexander | Netherlands | |
Count Jacques Rogge | Belgium | [20] | |
King Felipe VI | Spain | [21] | |
Pope Francis | Vatican City | [22] | |
Xi Jinping | China | [23] | |
2015 | Margareta of Romania | Romania | [24] |
2016 | Carlos Arthur Nuzman | Brazil | [25] |
2018 | Lee Hee-beom | South Korea | [26] |
Fernando Botero | Colombia | ||
Moon Jae-in | South Korea | [27] | |
Mauricio Macri | Argentina | [28] | |
2020 | Shinzo Abe | Japan | |
2021 | Seiko Hashimoto | Japan | |
Yoshihide Suga | Japan | ||
Yuriko Koike | Japan |
Silver Olympic Order[]
Year | Recipient | Country | Note |
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1975 | Mr. Ryotaro Azuma | Japan | |
Mr. Miguel de Capriles | United States | ||
Lieutenant-Colonel | United Kingdom | ||
1976 | Mr. Paul Anspach | Belgium | |
Mr. | New Zealand | ||
Mr. | Switzerland | ||
Mr. | United States | ||
Mr. Jesse Owens | United States | ||
Mr. | Uruguay | ||
Mr. | West Germany | ||
1977 | Colonel Sir Michael Ansell | United Kingdom | |
Mrs. Inger Frith | Denmark/ United Kingdom | ||
Mr. Sven Låftman | Sweden | ||
Mr. Anselmo López | Spain | ||
Dr. | Austria | ||
Mr. Seiji Tabata | Japan | ||
1978 | Prince Bertil Bernadotte | Sweden | |
Bâtonnier René Bondoux | France | ||
Colonel Domingos de Sousa | Portugal | ||
Mr. Falih Fahmi | Iraq | ||
Mr. John Emrys Lloyd | United Kingdom | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. Mario Vázquez Raña | Mexico | ||
1979 | Dr. | Morocco | |
General Gustaf Dyrssen | Sweden | ||
Mr. Mikio Oda | Japan | ||
Er. Harold Madison Wright | Canada | ||
1980 | Professor | United Kingdom | |
Er. Pablo Cagnasso | Argentina | ||
Mr. Franco Carraro | Italy | ||
Mr. | Spain | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Professor | Belgium | ||
Sir Denis Follows | United Kingdom | ||
Mr. Sydney Grange | Australia | ||
Mr. | Switzerland | ||
Mr. Frederick Holder | United Kingdom | ||
Lord Howell | United Kingdom | ||
Colonel Raoul Mollet | Belgium | ||
Mr. Renato William Jones | United Kingdom | ||
Mr. | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. Charles Palmer | United Kingdom | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Mr. Amilcare Rotta | Italy | [29] | |
Mr. | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. | Sweden | ||
Mr. Yoshiyuki Tsuruta | Japan | ||
1981 | Mr. Gérard d'Aboville | France | |
Mr. Roone Arledge | United States | ||
Mr. | Spain | ||
Mr. | Costa Rica | ||
Mr. Árpád Bogsch | United States | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Mr. | United Kingdom | ||
Dr. Max Danz | West Germany | ||
Mr. Jean-Pascal Delamuraz | Switzerland | ||
Mr. | Senegal | ||
Mr. Bo Ekelund | Sweden | ||
Mr. Pierre Ferri | France | ||
Mr. Jacques Goddet | France | ||
Mr. Gísli Halldórsson | Iceland | ||
Dr. | United States | ||
Mrs. Hideko Hyodo | Japan | ||
Mr. | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. | Denmark | ||
Ms. Elena Mukhina | Soviet Union | [30][31][32] | |
Mr. | Ireland | ||
Mr. Adriaan Paulen | Netherlands | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. Abdel Moneim Wahby | Egypt | ||
1982 | Prince Franz Joseph II | Liechtenstein | |
Mr. | Czechoslovakia | ||
Mr. | Finland | ||
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda | Japan | ||
Mr. | Venezuela | ||
Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX | Indonesia | ||
General Sven Thofelt | Sweden | ||
Mr. | India | ||
Mr. José Ramón Fernández | Cuba | ||
Mr. | Israel | ||
Mr. Ichiro Hatta | Japan | ||
Mr. | United States | ||
Mr. Robert Kane | United States | ||
Mr. | Austria | ||
Mr. | Portugal | ||
Mr. Paul-Rene Martin | Switzerland | ||
Mr. | Bulgaria | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Mr. László Papp | Hungary | ||
Mr. João Carlos de Oliveira | Brazil | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales | Hong Kong | ||
Mr. Angel Solakov | Bulgaria | ||
Mr. Habib Thiam | Senegal | ||
Mr. | Finland | ||
1983 | Mr. | Ivory Coast | |
Mr. | Greece | ||
Sir Gerald Cash | Bahamas | ||
Dr. | Hungary | ||
Mrs. Betty Cuthbert | Australia | ||
Mr. Eduardo Dibos | Peru | ||
Mr. | Ivory Coast | ||
Lieutenant-General Marin Dragnea | Romania | ||
Mr. Jean Drapeau | Canada | ||
Mrs. Ilona Elek | Hungary | ||
Mr. | Libya | ||
Mr. Manfred Ewald | East Germany | ||
Mrs. Marie-Thérèse Eyquem | France | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. | Austria | ||
Dr. Abdel Halim Muhammad | Sudan | ||
Mr. | South Korea | ||
Mrs. Galina Kulakova | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. | Panama | ||
Mr. Aleksandr Medved | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Mr. Chūhei Nambu | Japan | ||
Mr. | Canada | ||
Mr. | Spain | ||
Mr. | Australia | ||
Mr. | Australia | ||
Mr. | China | ||
Mr. | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. | Japan | ||
Mr. Sergei Chalibashvili | Soviet Union | ||
Mrs. Lidiya Skoblikova | Soviet Union | ||
1984 | Mr. | Morocco | |
Mr. | Brazil | ||
Mr. | Spain | ||
Mr. Motohiko Ban | Japan | ||
Mrs. Herma Bauma | Austria | ||
Mr. | Sweden | ||
Mr. Jean Borotra | France | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. Juan Jose Castillo | Spain | ||
Mr. | United Kingdom | ||
Ms. Nadia Comăneci | Romania | [33] | |
Mr. George Craig | New Zealand | ||
Dr. Beppe Croce | Italy | ||
Mr. Sandy Duncan | United Kingdom | ||
Mr. | Turkey | ||
Mr. | Belgium | ||
Mr. Akira Fujita | Japan | ||
Mr. | Czechoslovakia | ||
Mr. | Switzerland | ||
Mr. Bert Isatitsch | Austria | ||
Mr. Pal Kovacs | Hungary | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Mr. | Romania | ||
Colonel | United States | ||
Mr. Julio Enrique Monagas | Puerto Rico | ||
Mr. | Cameroon | ||
Mr. Renzo Nostini | Italy | ||
Mr. | Canada | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Mr. | Poland | ||
Mr. | Netherlands Antilles | ||
Mr. | China | ||
Mr. | Mexico | ||
Mrs. Helene Ahrweiler | France | [34] | |
Mr. | Kuwait | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. | Liberia | ||
Mr. | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. Tom Bradley[citation needed] | United States | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. Miroslav Cerar | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Mr. Horst Dassler | West Germany | ||
Mr. | Egypt | ||
Mr. Milan Ercegan | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. | Japan | ||
Mr. | Trinidad and Tobago | ||
Mr. | Sweden | ||
Mr. | Kenya | ||
Mr. | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. | Japan | ||
Mr. Primo Nebiolo | Italy | ||
Mr. Günther Sabetzki | West Germany | ||
Mr. | Jamaica | ||
Mr. | Algeria | ||
Mr. | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. Harry Usher | United States | ||
Mr. | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. | United States | ||
1985 | Sir Adetokunbo Ademola | Nigeria | |
Mr. | Romania | ||
Sheikh | Bahrain | ||
Mr. Hanji Aoki | Japan | ||
Mr. Abdel Azim Ashry | Egypt | ||
Mr. | Ethiopia | ||
Mr. Edmund W. Barker | Singapore | ||
Mr. Domenico Bruschi | San Marino | ||
Mrs. Christine Caron | France | ||
Mr. Bud Greenspan | United States | ||
Mr. Józef Grudzień | Poland | ||
Mr. | West Germany | ||
Mr. John B. Kelly Jr. | United States | ||
Mr. | Indonesia | ||
Mr. Kenkichi Oshima | Japan | ||
Lord Porritt | New Zealand | ||
Mr. | Czechoslovakia | ||
Mr. | Austria | ||
Mr. | Brazil | ||
Mr. Raimundo Saporta | Spain | ||
Mr. William Simon | United States | ||
Mr. Borislav Stanković | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. | Spain | ||
Mr. Walter Wasservogel | Austria | ||
Mr. | Switzerland | ||
Mr. Lev Yashin | Soviet Union | ||
1986 | Mr. | Brazil | |
Mr. | Bulgaria | ||
Mr. | Mauritania | ||
Mr. Bernhard Baier | West Germany | ||
Mrs. | West Germany | ||
Mr. | Benin | ||
Mr. | Chile | ||
Mr. | Colombia | ||
Mr. | Spain | ||
Mr. | United States | ||
Mr. | Bulgaria | ||
Mr. | Netherlands | ||
Mr. | Lebanon | ||
Mr. | Belgium | ||
Air Vice Marshal | India | ||
Mr. Nikolaos Nissiotis | Greece | ||
Mr. | South Korea | ||
Mr. | Cuba | ||
Mr. | South Yemen | ||
Mr. | West Germany | ||
Mr. | United States | ||
Mr. | United States | ||
Mr. Roger Rousseau | Canada | ||
Mr. | Argentina | ||
Mr. Andrey Starovoytov | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. William Thayer Tutt | United States | ||
Mr. Tadeusz Ulatowski | Poland | ||
Mr. | Greece | ||
Mr. | East Germany | ||
Mr. Huang Zhong | China | ||
1987 | Mr. | Portugal | |
Mr. | Libya | ||
Mr. | Yugoslavia | ||
John Brown | Australia | [35] | |
Mr. | Romania | ||
Mr. | Australia | ||
Mr. | Brazil | ||
Mr. | East Germany | ||
Mr. | China | ||
Mr. Alberto Juantorena | Cuba | ||
Mr. Todor Zhivkov | Bulgaria | ||
Mr. | Austria | ||
Mr. | India | [36] | |
Mr. Jean-Claude Killy | France | ||
Mr. | United States | ||
Colonel | Poland | ||
Mr. | China | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. | Ivory Coast | ||
Mr. | Switzerland | ||
Mr. | Poland | ||
Mr. | Turkey | ||
Mr. Teofilo Stevenson | Cuba | ||
Mr. Vladimir Stoychev | Bulgaria | ||
Mr. Leon Štukelj | Yugoslavia | ||
Mr. Brian Wightman | Fiji | ||
1988 | Mr. Ruben Acosta | Mexico | |
Mr. | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. | Spain | ||
Mrs. Eileen Anderson | United Kingdom | ||
Mr. Juan Jose Castillo | Spain | ||
Mr. Reiner Klimke | West Germany | ||
Mr. | Spain | ||
Mr. Bill Pratt | Canada | ||
Mr. | Spain | ||
Mr. | Brazil | ||
Dr. | Hungary | ||
Katarina Witt | East Germany | ||
Ralph Klein | Canada | ||
Jerzy Kukuczka | Poland | ||
Antonio Mariscal | Mexico | ||
Josef Neckermann | West Germany | ||
Jasdev Singh | India | [37][38] | |
Tunisia | |||
Yugoslavia | |||
Sweden | |||
United States | [39] | ||
1989 | Larisa Latynina | Soviet Union | |
1990 | Ivan Patzaichin | Romania | |
1992 | Ludovit Komadel | Czechoslovakia | |
Mexico | |||
1994 | Vladimir Krivtsov | Russia | |
Shane Gould | Australia | ||
1995 | United States | [40] | |
1997 | Germany | [41] | |
Oscar Schmidt | Brazil | [6] | |
Ian Buchanan | United Kingdom | ||
1998 | Alexander Gomelsky | Russia | |
Geoffrey Henke | Australia | [42] | |
Makoto Kobayashi | Japan | [10] | |
Tasuku Tsukada | Japan | [10] | |
Goro Yoshimura | Japan | [10] | |
1999 | Brian Tobin | Australia | [43] |
2000 | Prof. Lowitja O'Donoghue | Australia | |
Norman May | Australia | ||
2001 | Netherlands | [44] | |
Harry Gordon | Australia | [45] | |
Cathy Freeman | Australia | ||
2002 | Peter Montgomery | Australia | |
2003 | Mool Chand Chowhan | India | [46][47] |
2007 | Marjorie Jackson-Nelson | Australia | |
2008 | He Zhenliang | China | |
Liu Jingmin | China | ||
Deng Pufang | China | ||
Chen Zhili | China | [48] | |
2010 | Teo Chee Hean | Singapore | |
Dr. Ng Eng Hen | Singapore | ||
Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan | Singapore | ||
Dr. | Singapore | ||
Singapore | |||
Singapore | |||
Dr. | Singapore | ||
Singapore | [49] | ||
Les McDonald | Canada | [50] | |
Michael A. Chambers | Canada | [51] | |
Nodar Kumaritashvili | Georgia | Posthumously awarded [52] | |
2011 | Fernando Lima Bello | Portugal | |
Kip Keino | Kenya | [53] | |
Vilnis Baltiņš | Latvia | [54] | |
2012 | Sir Keith Mills | United Kingdom | |
Lord Moynihan | United Kingdom | [55] | |
2015 | Lord Tevita Poasi Tupou | Tonga | [56] |
Irina Viner | Russia | [57] | |
2016 | Edson Arantes do Nascimento | Brazil | [58] |
Ilse Bechthold | Germany | ||
Julio Maglione | Uruguay | ||
Anton Geesink | Netherlands | Posthumously awarded | |
Reynaldo González López | Cuba | Posthumously awarded | |
Peter Tallberg | Finland | Posthumously awarded | |
Finland | |||
Vlade Divac | Serbia | [59] | |
Narayana Ramachandran | India | [60] | |
2018 | South Korea | ||
South Korea | |||
South Korea | [61] | ||
2021 | Toshirō Mutō | Japan | [62] |
Bronze Olympic Order[]
Year | Recipient | Country | Note |
---|---|---|---|
1975 | Mr. Charles Debeur | Belgium | |
Mr. Gyula Hegyi | Hungary | ||
Mr. | Kenya | ||
Mrs. Lia Manoliu | Romania | ||
Mrs. Ellen Preis | Austria | ||
Dr. | France | ||
1976 | Mr. | East Germany | |
Mr. Antonio dos Reis Carneiro | Brazil | [63] | |
Mr. | South Korea | ||
Mr. | Morocco | ||
Mrs. Zofia Mironova | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. Kleanthis Palaiologos | Greece | ||
Mr. | Israel | ||
1977 | Mr. Gunnar Hansen | Denmark | |
Mrs. | Bulgaria | ||
Mr. Edoardo Mangiarotti | Italy | ||
Mr. | Colombia | ||
Mr. Christian d'Oriola | France | ||
Mr. | India | ||
Mr. | Cuba | ||
Mr. | Belgium | ||
1978 | Mr. Zafar Ali | Pakistan | |
Prof. Dr. | Yugoslavia | ||
Mrs. Ludmilla Tourischeva | Soviet Union | ||
Colonel | Tunisia | ||
Mr. | Denmark | ||
Mrs. | Guatemala | ||
Mr. | India | ||
Mr. | Brazil | ||
Mr. Al Oerter | United States | ||
Mr. Michel Ravarino | Monaco | ||
Mr. | Switzerland | ||
Mr. Yoshinori Suzuki | Japan | ||
Mr. | Argentina | ||
Mr. | Bolivia | ||
1979 | Mr. | Brazil | |
Mr. | Peru | ||
Mrs. Maria Kwaśniewska | Poland | ||
Colonel Marcel Leclef | Belgium | [29] | |
Mr. Imre Németh | Hungary | ||
Mrs. | Austria | ||
Mr. | Greece | ||
Mrs. | Switzerland | ||
1980 | Mr. Sigge Bergman | Sweden | |
Mrs. Elisabeth Ferris | United Kingdom | ||
Mrs. Dawn Fraser | Australia | ||
Mr. | United Kingdom | ||
Mrs. Anita DeFrantz | United States | ||
Mr. Jean-Claude Ganga | Congo | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Mr. John Hennessy | United Kingdom | ||
Mr. | Panama | ||
Mr. Joseph Jungmann | Czechoslovakia | ||
Mr. | Canada | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. Geoffrey Miller | United Kingdom | ||
Mr. | France | ||
Mr. | United Kingdom | ||
Mr. | Lebanon | ||
Mr. | Switzerland | ||
Mr. | Tunisia | ||
Mr. | Soviet Union | ||
1981 | Mr. | Tunisia | |
Mr. | Switzerland | ||
Brigadier Henrique Alves Callado | Portugal | ||
Mr. Gregor Hradetzky | Austria | ||
Mr. Károly Kárpáti | Hungary | ||
Dr. J. Raymond Owen | United Kingdom | ||
Mrs. Irina Rodnina | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. | Ireland | ||
Mrs. Irena Szewińska | Poland | ||
Mr. | Chile | ||
1982 | Mr. Waldemar Baszanowski | Poland | |
Mr. | Ecuador | ||
Mr. | Brazil | ||
Mr. Paul Elvstrøm | Denmark | ||
Mr. Sinan Erdem | Turkey | ||
Mr. | Italy | ||
Mr. Gert Fredriksson | Sweden | ||
Mr. | Norway | ||
Mr. Sixten Jernberg | Sweden | ||
Mr. | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. | Mexico | ||
Dr. | Tunisia | ||
Mr. | Ecuador | ||
Mr. | Canada | ||
Mr. | West Germany | ||
Mr. | New Zealand | ||
Mr. Toni Sailer | Austria | ||
Mr. Vladimir Smirnov | Soviet Union | ||
Mr. Ulrich Wehling | East Germany | ||
Mr. D. J. Williams | Bermuda | ||
1983 | Mr. | Brazil | |
Mr. | Bulgaria | ||
Mr. | United Kingdom | ||
Mr. | East Germany | ||
Mr. | Ivory Coast | ||
Dr. | Chile | ||
Mr. Maladi | Indonesia | ||
Mr. | Poland | ||
Mr. | Turkey | ||
Mrs. Esther Roth-Shahamorov | Israel | [64] | |
1984 | Mr. | Spain | |
Mr. Duarte Manuel de Almeida Bello | Portugal | ||
Mr. Siegfried Brietzke | West Germany | ||
Mr. Muhammad Naqi Butt | Pakistan | ||
Mr. | Bulgaria | ||
Mr. | Uruguay | ||
Mr. | Hungary | ||
Mr. | Ethiopia |
Recipients with missing data[]
Following is the list of recipients of Olympic Order with some missing data like year of award, country and colour of award.
Year | Recipient | Country | Colour | Note |
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1988 | Manfred von Brauchitsch | West Germany | ||
Arne B. Mollén | Norway | [65] | ||
Mustapha Larfaoui | Algeria | |||
Aladár Gerevich | Hungary | |||
1989 | Larisa Latynina | Soviet Union | ||
1990 | Lee Kun-hee | South Korea | ||
Jonathan Janson | United Kingdom | |||
Rudolf Kárpáti | Hungary | |||
Reizo Koike | Japan | |||
Naoto Tajima | ||||
Lamine Diack | Senegal | |||
Asnoldo Devonish | Venezuela | [66] | ||
1991 | Romania | |||
1992 | Sudan | [67] | ||
Mexico | ||||
Colombia | ||||
Dr. | Brazil | |||
Israel | ||||
Turkey | ||||
Dr. Evie Dennis | United States | |||
Deszo Gyarmati | Hungary | |||
Australia | Awarded posthumously | |||
Mexico | ||||
Russia | ||||
Gaoussou Kone | Ivory Coast | |||
Spain | ||||
Mario Pescante | Italy | |||
United States | ||||
Eduardo Airaldi Rivarola | Peru | |||
Carlos Salinas de Gortari | Mexico | |||
Austria | ||||
India | ||||
Prof. | Greece | |||
Mrs. | China | |||
1993 | Jacques Blanc | France | ||
Russia | Silver | [68] | ||
Ted Stevens | United States | [69] | ||
Jordi Pujol | Spain | |||
Dražen Petrović | Croatia | Posthumously awarded [70] | ||
1994 | Russia | |||
1995 | Miguel Indurain | Spain | [71] | |
1996 | Christian Erb | Switzerland | ||
Vladimir Maksimov | Russia | |||
1997 | Chris de Broglio | South Africa | [72] | |
Hendrika Mastenbroek | Netherlands | |||
Roy Jones Jr. | United States | |||
1998 | Frédy Girardet | Switzerland | ||
Chung Ju-yung | South Korea | |||
Wolf-Dieter Montag | Germany | [73] | ||
Erica Terpstra | Netherlands | |||
Lithuania | ||||
1999 | Alexander Tikhonov | Russia | ||
Steffi Graf | Germany | [74] | ||
Antonio Spallino | Italy | [75] | ||
Bertrand Piccard | Switzerland | |||
Brian Jones | England | [76] | ||
2000 | ||||
Alberto Tomba | Italy | [77] | ||
David Coleman | England | |||
Alida van den Bos | Netherlands | [78] | ||
2001 | [79] | |||
France | ||||
Enrique Sanz | Spain | [80] | ||
Richard Bunn | Switzerland | |||
Arvydas Sabonis | Lithuania | [81] | ||
René Burkhalter | Switzerland | |||
Arnold Green | Estonia | |||
Félix Savón | Cuba | |||
Eric Walter | [82] | |||
Myriam Bédard | Canada | |||
David Douillet | France | |||
Krisztina Egerszegi | Hungary | |||
Cathy Freeman | Australia | |||
Kazuyoshi Funaki | Japan | |||
Aleksandr Karelin | Russia | |||
Marco Marin | Italy | |||
Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | |||
Naim Süleymano��lu | Turkey | [83] | ||
Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | [84] | ||
2002 | Erwin Lanc | Austria | ||
Peter Blake | New Zealand | Posthumously awarded | ||
Shirley Strickland | Australia | [85] | ||
Lithuania | [86] | |||
Wayne Gretzky | Canada | |||
Miroslav Šubrt | Czech Republic | |||
Walter Bush | United States | |||
Shoichi Tomita | Japan | [87] | ||
Flor Isava-Fonseca | Venezuela | |||
India | [88] | |||
David Wallechinsky | United States | [89] | ||
2003 | John Williams | [90] | ||
Adolf Ogi | Switzerland | [91] | ||
France | [92] | |||
2004 | ||||
[93] | ||||
Nadia Comăneci | Romania | [94] | ||
George Bolos | Silver | |||
2005 | Shirley Babashoff | United States | ||
2006 | ||||
2009 | Thor Nilsen | [95] | ||
2012 | Eiichi Kawatei | Japan | [96] | |
David Stern | United States | |||
2016 | Ottavio Cinquanta | Italy | ||
Zambia | ||||
Unknown | Dawn Fraser | Australia | Silver | |
Julius Patching | ||||
Herb Elliott | ||||
John Devitt | ||||
Sandy Hollway | ||||
Mick O'Brien | ||||
John Fitzgerald | ||||
Shirley Strickland | ||||
Di Henry | ||||
Kerry Stokes | ||||
Phillip Walter Coles | ||||
Kevan Gosper | ||||
Helen Brownlee | ||||
David Richmond | Gold | |||
John Howard | ||||
Alexander Tikhonov | Soviet Union / Russian Federation | ? | ||
Alexander Karelin | ||||
Doug Arnot | United States | Silver | Services to London 2012 | |
Mike Loynd | ||||
United Kingdom | ||||
Richard George | ||||
Debbie Jevans | ||||
Ian Johnston | ||||
Gerry Pennell | ||||
Trivia[]
Nadia Comăneci became one of the youngest recipients of the Olympic Order in 1984 when she was only 23 years old at the time of her award. She is also one of the two only athletes to be awarded the Olympic Order twice (1984, 2004), the other one being the Brazilian Carlos Arthur Nuzman.
See also[]
- Olympic Symbols
- Bertoni, Milano
- Recipients of the Olympic Order
- Olympic Cup
- Pierre de Coubertin Medal
- Olympic Order in Artistic Gymnastics
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