Olympic Order

Olympic Order
Gold and Silver Olympic Orders
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)

Olympic Order and its miniature badge, produced by GDE Bertoni Milano, Collection Fabio Ferrari

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[]

Dr Ulrich Feldhoff sporting his Chain of the Olympic Order

The following is a list of recipients of the Olympic Order.

This list is incomplete; you can help by . (November 2015)

Gold Olympic Order[]

Year	Recipient	Country	Note
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
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
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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• List of recipients of the Olympic Order at Olympedia.org