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Olympic Order

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.

Olympic Order
Gold and Silver Olympic Orders
Awarded forContribution to the Olympic Movement
Presented by International Olympic Committee
History
First award1975
Most winsNadia Comăneci (twice: 1984, 2004) and Carlos Arthur Nuzman (twice: 1992, 2016)
Olympic Order and its miniature badge, produced by GDE Bertoni Milano, Collection Fabio Ferrari

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. Some no longer have their orders, as they have been withdrawn.[1]

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 [2]
Dr. Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow   Senegal
King Olav V   Norway
1982 Ahmad Shah of Pahang   Malaysia
1983 Indira Gandhi   India [3][4]
1984 Branko Mikulić   Yugoslavia
François Mitterrand   France
Peter Ueberroth   United States
1985 Nicolae Ceauşescu   Romania
Erich Honecker   East Germany
King Juan Carlos I   Spain [5]
1986 Wan Li   China
1987 King Bhumibol Adulyadej   Thailand
General Kenan Evren   Turkey
Todor Zhivkov   Bulgaria [6]
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
Willi Daume   West Germany
1992 Pasqual Maragall   Spain
Carlos Arthur Nuzman   Brazil [7]
Michel Barnier   France
Javier Gómez-Navarro   Spain
José Miguel Abad   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 [8]
1994 Gerhard Heiberg   Norway
Richard von Weizsäcker   Germany
Nelson Mandela   South Africa [9]
Joaquín Leguina   Spain
Dr. Mauno Koivisto   Finland [10]
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
Adolphus Drewery   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 Kwaśniewski   Poland
Suleyman Demirel   Turkey
1998 Kim Dae-jung   South Korea
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg   Luxembourg [11]
Eishiro Saito   Japan [12]
2000 Adolf Ogi   Switzerland [13]
Michael Knight   Australia
John Coates   Australia [14]
2001 Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said   Oman [15]
Goh Chok Tong   Singapore
Vladimir Putin   Russia Withdrawn on 28 February 2022[16][17]
Juan Antonio Samaranch   Spain [18][19]
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 [20]
Martinos Simitsek   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 [21]
Lee Hsien Loong   Singapore [22]
John Furlong   Canada [23]
2012 Lord Coe   United Kingdom
Lord Deighton   United Kingdom
2013 King Willem-Alexander   Netherlands
Count Jacques Rogge   Belgium [24]
King Felipe VI   Spain [25]
Pope Francis    Vatican City [26]
Xi Jinping   China [27]
2014 Dmitry Chernyshenko   Russia Withdrawn on 28 February 2022[16]
Dmitry Kozak   Russia Withdrawn on 28 February 2022[16]
2015 Margareta of Romania   Romania [28]
2016 Carlos Arthur Nuzman   Brazil [29]
2018 Lee Hee-beom   South Korea [30]
Fernando Botero   Colombia
Moon Jae-in   South Korea [31]
Mauricio Macri   Argentina [32]
2020 Shinzo Abe   Japan
2021 Seiko Hashimoto   Japan
Yoshihide Suga   Japan
Yuriko Koike   Japan
2022 Sun Chunlan   China [33]
Cai Qi   China [33]
Andrzej Duda   Poland [34]

Silver Olympic Order

Year Recipient Country Note
1975 Mr. Ryotaro Azuma   Japan
Mr. Miguel de Capriles   United States
Lieutenant-Colonel Rudyard Russell   United Kingdom
1976 Mr. Paul Anspach   Belgium
Mr. Harold Austad   New Zealand
Mr. Albert Demaurex   Switzerland
Mr. Dan Ferris   United States
Mr. Jesse Owens   United States
Mr. Héctor Paysse Reyes   Uruguay
Mr. Walter Wülfing   West Germany
1977 Colonel Sir Michael Ansell   United Kingdom
Mrs. Inger Frith   Denmark/  United Kingdom
Mr. Sven Låftman   Sweden
Mr. Anselmo López   Spain
Dr. Rudolf Nemetschke   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. Adriano Rodoni   Italy
Mr. Mario Vázquez Raña   Mexico
1979 Dr. Haj Omar Boucetta   Morocco
General Gustaf Dyrssen   Sweden
Mr. Mikio Oda   Japan
Er. Harold Madison Wright   Canada
1980 Professor Arnold H. Beckett   United Kingdom
Er. Pablo Cagnasso   Argentina
Mr. Franco Carraro   Italy
Mr. Benito Castejón   Spain
Mr. Claude Collard   France
Professor Albert Dirix   Belgium
Sir Denis Follows   United Kingdom
Mr. Sydney Grange   Australia
Mr. Kurt Hasler   Switzerland
Mr. Frederick Holder   United Kingdom
Lord Howell   United Kingdom
Colonel Raoul Mollet   Belgium
Mr. Renato William Jones   United Kingdom
Mr. Ignati Novikov   Soviet Union
Mr. Charles Palmer   United Kingdom
Mr. Henri Pouret   France
Mr. Amilcare Rotta   Italy [35]
Mr. Anton Skataretiko   Yugoslavia
Mr. Bertil Sallfors   Sweden
Mr. Yoshiyuki Tsuruta   Japan
1981 Mr. Gérard d'Aboville   France
Mr. Roone Arledge   United States
Mr. Jacinto Balleste   Spain
Mr. Rafael Barquero Chaves   Costa Rica
Mr. Árpád Bogsch   United States
Mr. Charles de Coquereaumont   France
Mr. David Coward   United Kingdom
Dr. Max Danz   West Germany
Mr. Jean-Pascal Delamuraz   Switzerland
Mr. Henry Joseph Dieme   Senegal
Mr. Bo Ekelund   Sweden
Mr. Pierre Ferri   France
Mr. Jacques Goddet   France
Mr. Gísli Halldórsson   Iceland
Dr. Harold W. Henning   United States
Mrs. Hideko Hyodo   Japan
Mr. Enrikas Juskhevitsus   Soviet Union
Mr. Kurt Møller   Denmark
Ms. Elena Mukhina   Soviet Union [36][37][38]
Mr. Desmond O'Sullivan   Ireland
Mr. Adriaan Paulen   Netherlands
Mr. Adriano Rodoni   Italy
Mr. Abdel Moneim Wahby   Egypt
1982 Prince Franz Joseph II   Liechtenstein
Mr. František Kroutil   Czechoslovakia
Mr. Paavo Mikko Honkajuuri   Finland
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda   Japan
Mr. José Beracasa   Venezuela
Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX   Indonesia
General Sven Thofelt   Sweden
Mr. Avinash Chandra Chatterji   India
Mr. José Ramón Fernández   Cuba
Mr. Haim Glowinsky   Israel
Mr. Ichiro Hatta   Japan
Mr. Clarence H. Johnson   United States
Mr. Robert Kane   United States
Mr. Alois Lugger   Austria
Mr. Fernando Luis Pereira Machado   Portugal
Mr. Paul-Rene Martin   Switzerland
Mr. Trendafil Martinski   Bulgaria
Mr. Edgar Mercier   France
Mr. László Papp   Hungary
Mr. João Carlos de Oliveira   Brazil
Mr. Giovanni Romagna   Italy
Mr. Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales   Hong Kong
Mr. Angel Solakov   Bulgaria
Mr. Habib Thiam   Senegal
Mr. Jukka Uunila   Finland
1983 Mr. Kouassi Angama   Ivory Coast
Mr. Georges Athanassiadis   Greece
Sir Gerald Cash   Bahamas
Dr. Arpad Csanadi   Hungary
Mrs. Betty Cuthbert   Australia
Mr. Eduardo Dibos   Peru
Mr. Laurent Dona-Fologo   Ivory Coast
Lieutenant-General Marin Dragnea   Romania
Mr. Jean Drapeau   Canada
Mrs. Ilona Elek   Hungary
Mr. Massoud Ahmded El-Zantouti   Libya
Mr. Manfred Ewald   East Germany
Mrs. Marie-Thérèse Eyquem   France
Mr. Sisto Favre   Italy
Mr. Edgar Fried   Austria
Dr. Abdel Halim Muhammad   Sudan
Mr. Kim Taik-soo   South Korea
Mrs. Galina Kulakova   Soviet Union
Mr. Leopoldo de Leon   Panama
Mr. Aleksandr Medved   Soviet Union
Mr. Roger Menard   France
Mr. Chūhei Nambu   Japan
Mr. Robert F. Osborne   Canada
Mr. Javier Ostos   Spain
Mr. Julius Lockington Patching   Australia
Mr. Berge Philips   Australia
Mr. Gaotang Rong   China
Mr. Victor Saneev   Soviet Union
Mr. Katsuji Shibata   Japan
Mr. Sergei Chalibashvili   Soviet Union
Mrs. Lidiya Skoblikova   Soviet Union
1984 Mr. Abdelhamid Rachdi Alami   Morocco
Mr. Abílio Ferreira d'Almeida   Brazil
Mr. Luis Azemar Puig de la Bellacasa   Spain
Mr. Motohiko Ban   Japan
Mrs. Herma Bauma   Austria
Mr. Bo Bengston   Sweden
Mr. Jean Borotra   France
Mr. Paolo Cappabianca   Italy
Mr. Juan Jose Castillo   Spain
Mr. Harry H. Cavan   United Kingdom
Ms. Nadia Comăneci   Romania [39]
Mr. George Craig   New Zealand
Dr. Beppe Croce   Italy
Mr. Sandy Duncan   United Kingdom
Mr. Suat Erler   Turkey
Mr. Rene Frank   Belgium
Mr. Akira Fujita   Japan
Mr. Antonin Himl   Czechoslovakia
Mr. Pierre Hirschy   Switzerland
Mr. Bert Isatitsch   Austria
Mr. Pal Kovacs   Hungary
Mr. Paul Libaud   France
Mr. Hero Lupescu   Romania
Colonel F. Don Miller   United States
Mr. Julio Enrique Monagas   Puerto Rico
Mr. Hadj Ibrahim Mbomba Njoya   Cameroon
Mr. Renzo Nostini   Italy
Mr. Fred B. Oberlander   Canada
Mr. Nelson Paillou   France
Mr. Marian Renke   Poland
Mr. Walter J.M.A. von Rosberg   Netherlands Antilles
Mr. Zhong Shitong   China
Mr. Olegário Vazquez Rafia   Mexico
Mrs. Helene Ahrweiler   France [40]
Mr. Abdul Hameed Al-Hajji   Kuwait
Mr. Aldo Bergamaschi   Italy
Mr. Fred Blay   Liberia
Mr. Emeric Blum   Yugoslavia
Mr. Tom Bradley[citation needed]   United States
Mr. Gian-Carlo Brusati   Italy
Mr. Miroslav Cerar   Yugoslavia
Mr. Alain Danet   France
Mr. Horst Dassler   West Germany
Mr. Abdelaziz Elshafei   Egypt
Mr. Milan Ercegan   Yugoslavia
Mr. Shunji Fujii   Japan
Mr. Knolly Henderson   Trinidad and Tobago
Mr. Paul Högberg   Sweden
Mr. Samwel Mbogo Kamau   Kenya
Mr. Ahmed Karabegovic   Yugoslavia
Mr. Kenjiro Mizuno   Japan
Mr. Primo Nebiolo   Italy
Mr. Günther Sabetzki   West Germany
Mr. Keith Shervington   Jamaica
Mr. Baghadi Si-Mohamed   Algeria
Mr. Anto Sucic   Yugoslavia
Mr. Artur Takac   Yugoslavia
Mr. Stanko Tomic   Yugoslavia
Mr. Harry Usher   United States
Mr. Uglijesa Uzelac   Yugoslavia
Mr. Paul Ziffren   United States
1985 Sir Adetokunbo Ademola   Nigeria
Mr. Alexa Haralambie   Romania
Sheikh Isa bin Rashed Al Kalifa   Bahrain
Mr. Hanji Aoki   Japan
Mr. Abdel Azim Ashry   Egypt
Mr. Tsegaw Ayele   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. Hermann Jannsen   West Germany
Mr. John B. Kelly Jr.   United States
Mr. Ferdinand Siregar Mangombar   Indonesia
Mr. Kenkichi Oshima   Japan
Lord Porritt   New Zealand
Mr. Bedřich Poula   Czechoslovakia
Mr. Ludwig Prokop   Austria
Mr. André Gustavo Richer   Brazil
Mr. Raimundo Saporta   Spain
Mr. William Simon   United States
Mr. Borislav Stanković   Yugoslavia
Mr. Joseph Lluis Vilaseca   Spain
Mr. Walter Wasservogel   Austria
Mr. Jean Weymann   Switzerland
Mr. Lev Yashin   Soviet Union
1986 Mr. Carlos Osório de Almeida   Brazil
Mr. Lachezar Avramov   Bulgaria
Mr. Mahmoud Ba   Mauritania
Mr. Bernhard Baier   West Germany
Mrs. Liselotl Diem   West Germany
Mr. Justin Durand   Benin
Mr. Issac Froimovich   Chile
Mr. Julio Gerlcin Comelin   Colombia
Mr. Carlos de Godo   Spain
Mr. Roberto C. Goizueta   United States
Mr. Boris Gueorguiev   Bulgaria
Mr. Cornelius Kerdel   Netherlands
Mr. Antoine Khoui   Lebanon
Mr. Jean-Arnould Leew   Belgium
Air Vice Marshal C. L. Metha   India
Mr. Nikolaos Nissiotis   Greece
Mr. Park Chong-kyu   South Korea
Mr. Pedro Perez Duenas   Cuba
Mr. Ahmed Mohammed Qaatabi   South Yemen
Mr. Max Rinkenburger   West Germany
Mr. Douglas F. Roby   United States
Mr. Julian K. Roosevelt   United States
Mr. Roger Rousseau   Canada
Mr. Ricardo José Russomando   Argentina
Mr. Andrey Starovoytov   Soviet Union
Mr. William Thayer Tutt   United States
Mr. Tadeusz Ulatowski   Poland
Mr. Georges Vichos   Greece
Mr. George Wieczisk   East Germany
Mr. Huang Zhong   China
1987 Mr. Francisco Ferreira Alves   Portugal
Mr. Abdel Moneim El Bah   Libya
Mr. Boris Bakrac   Yugoslavia
John Brown   Australia [41]
Mr. Gavrila Barani   Romania
Mr. John Joseph Brown   Australia
Mr. Ramiro Tavares Gonçalves   Brazil
Mr. Rudolf Hellmann   East Germany
Mr. Chen Jingkai   China
Mr. Alberto Juantorena   Cuba
Mr. Todor Zhivkov   Bulgaria
Mr. Erich Kamper   Austria
Mr. L. N. Khurana   India [42]
Mr. Jean-Claude Killy   France
Mr. Philip Othmar Krumm   United States
Colonel Zdzisaw Ludwik Krzyszkowiak   Poland
Mr. Li Menghua   China
Mr. Geoffrey de Navacelle   France
Mr. Sergio Orsi   Italy
Mr. Lassina Palenfo   Ivory Coast
Mr. Marcel Pasche   Switzerland
Mr. Janusz Gorgoniusz Przedpeski   Poland
Mr. Haluk San   Turkey
Mr. Teofilo Stevenson   Cuba
Mr. Vladimir Stoychev   Bulgaria
Mr. Leon Štukelj   Yugoslavia
Mr. Brian Wightman   Fiji
1988 Mr. Ruben Acosta   Mexico
Mr. Constantin Andrianov   Soviet Union
Mr. Francisco Alguersuari Duran   Spain
Mrs. Eileen Anderson   United Kingdom
Mr. Juan Jose Castillo   Spain
Mr. Reiner Klimke   West Germany
Mr. Juan de la LIcra Trcns   Spain
Mr. Bill Pratt   Canada
Mr. Fernando Riba   Spain
Mr. Anisio Silva Rocha   Brazil
Dr. Joszef Sir   Hungary
Katarina Witt   East Germany
Ralph Klein   Canada
Jerzy Kukuczka   Poland
Antonio Mariscal   Mexico
Josef Neckermann   West Germany
Jasdev Singh   India [43][44]
Taieb Houichi   Tunisia
Ante Lambasa   Yugoslavia
Wolf Lyberg   Sweden
Frederick Ruegsegger   United States [45]
1989 Larisa Latynina   Soviet Union
1990 Ivan Patzaichin   Romania
1992 Ludovit Komadel   Czechoslovakia
Jesús Alfonso Elizondo Nájera   Mexico
1994 Vladimir Krivtsov   Russia
Shane Gould   Australia
1995 Eddy Merckx   Belgium [46]
Miguel Indurain   Spain [47]
Jerald M. Jordan   United States [48]
1997 Karl Lennartz   Germany [49]
Oscar Schmidt   Brazil [7]
Ian Buchanan   United Kingdom
1998 Alexander Gomelsky   Russia
Geoffrey Henke   Australia [50]
Makoto Kobayashi   Japan [12]
Tasuku Tsukada   Japan [12]
Goro Yoshimura   Japan [12]
1999 Brian Tobin   Australia [51]
Prince Abdul Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah   Brunei [52]
2000 Prof. Lowitja O'Donoghue   Australia
Norman May   Australia
2001 Ton Bijkerk   Netherlands [53]
Harry Gordon   Australia [54]
Cathy Freeman   Australia
2002 Peter Montgomery   Australia
2003 Mool Chand Chowhan   India [55][56]
2007 Marjorie Jackson-Nelson   Australia
2008 He Zhenliang   China
Liu Jingmin   China
Deng Pufang   China
Chen Zhili   China [57]
2010 Teo Chee Hean   Singapore
Dr. Ng Eng Hen   Singapore
Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan   Singapore
Dr. Tan Eng Liang   Singapore
Chris Chan   Singapore
Goh Kee Nguan   Singapore
Dr. Francis Chong   Singapore
Eric Tan Huck Gim   Singapore [58]
Les McDonald   Canada [59]
Michael A. Chambers   Canada [60]
Nodar Kumaritashvili   Georgia Posthumously awarded [61]
2011 Fernando Lima Bello   Portugal
Kip Keino   Kenya [62]
Vilnis Baltiņš   Latvia [63]
2012 Gary Anderson   United States [64]
Sir Keith Mills   United Kingdom
Lord Moynihan   United Kingdom [65]
2015 Lord Tevita Poasi Tupou   Tonga [66]
Irina Viner   Russia [67]
2016 Edson Arantes do Nascimento   Brazil [68]
Ilse Bechthold   Germany
Julio Maglione   Uruguay
Anton Geesink   Netherlands Posthumously awarded
Reynaldo González López   Cuba Posthumously awarded
Peter Tallberg   Finland Posthumously awarded
Risto Nieminen   Finland
Vlade Divac   Serbia [69]
Narayana Ramachandran   India [70]
2018 Yeo Hyung-koo   South Korea
Kim Jae-youl   South Korea
Kim Joo-ho   South Korea [71]
2021 Toshirō Mutō   Japan [72]
2022 Gou Zhongwen   China [33]
Chen Jining   China [33]
Wang Zhengpu   China [33]
Zhang Jiandong   China [33]
Han Zirong   China [33]

Bronze Olympic Order

Year Recipient Country Note
1975 Mr. Charles Debeur   Belgium
Mr. Gyula Hegyi   Hungary
Mr. John Kasyoka   Kenya
Mrs. Lia Manoliu   Romania
Mrs. Ellen Preis   Austria
Dr. Jacques Thiébault   France
1976 Mr. Helmut Behrendt   East Germany
Mr. Antonio dos Reis Carneiro   Brazil [73]
Mr. Walter Jhung   South Korea
Mr. Abderrahman Khatib   Morocco
Mrs. Zofia Mironova   Soviet Union
Mr. Kleanthis Palaiologos   Greece
Mr. Haim Wein   Israel
1977 Mr. Gunnar Hansen   Denmark
Mrs. Nadia Lekarska   Bulgaria
Mr. Edoardo Mangiarotti   Italy
Mr. Alberto Nariño Cheyne   Colombia
Mr. Christian d'Oriola   France
Mr. Dutta Ray   India
Mr. Roberto Richards Aguiar   Cuba
Mr. René de Raeve   Belgium
1978 Mr. Zafar Ali   Pakistan
Prof. Dr. Mihailo Andrejević   Yugoslavia
Mrs. Ludmilla Tourischeva   Soviet Union
Colonel Hassine Hamouda   Tunisia
Mr. Harald Jespersen   Denmark
Mrs. Ingrid Keller de Schiavoni   Guatemala
Mr. Surjit Singh Majithia   India
Mr. Paulo Martins Meira   Brazil
Mr. Al Oerter   United States
Mr. Michel Ravarino   Monaco
Mr. Charles Riolo   Switzerland
Mr. Yoshinori Suzuki   Japan
Mr. Hugo Virgilio Tedin   Argentina
Mr. José Gamarra Zorrilla   Bolivia
1979 Mr. Jeronymo Baptista Bastos   Brazil
Mr. Alfredo Hohagen Díez Canseco   Peru
Mrs. Maria Kwaśniewska   Poland
Colonel Marcel Leclef   Belgium [35]
Mr. Imre Németh   Hungary
Mrs. Emmy Schwabe   Austria
Mr. Otto Szymiczek   Greece
Mrs. Lydia Zanchi   Switzerland
1980 Mr. Sigge Bergman   Sweden
Mrs. Elisabeth Ferris   United Kingdom
Mrs. Dawn Fraser   Australia
Mr. Alex Erere   United Kingdom
Mrs. Anita DeFrantz   United States
Mr. Jean-Claude Ganga   Congo
Mr. Marcello Garroni   Italy
Mr. Michel Henault   France
Mr. John Hennessy   United Kingdom
Mr. Luis E. Hurtado   Panama
Mr. Joseph Jungmann   Czechoslovakia
Mr. Clare McDermott   Canada
Mr. Donato Martucci   Italy
Mr. Geoffrey Miller
olympic, order, confused, with, olympic, order, artistic, gymnastics, established, 1975, highest, award, olympic, movement, awarded, particularly, distinguished, contributions, olympic, movement, recognition, efforts, worthy, merit, cause, sport, traditionally. Not to be confused with Olympic order in artistic gymnastics 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 Olympic OrderGold and Silver Olympic OrdersAwarded forContribution to the Olympic MovementPresented byInternational Olympic CommitteeHistoryFirst award1975Most winsNadia Comăneci twice 1984 2004 and Carlos Arthur Nuzman twice 1992 2016 Olympic Order and its miniature badge produced by GDE Bertoni Milano Collection Fabio Ferrari Contents 1 History 2 Design 3 Recipients 3 1 Gold Olympic Order 3 2 Silver Olympic Order 3 3 Bronze Olympic Order 3 4 Recipients with missing data 4 Trivia 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksHistory EditThe 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 EditThe 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 Edit Dr Ulrich Feldhoff sporting his Chain of the Olympic Order The following is a list of recipients of the Olympic Order Some no longer have their orders as they have been withdrawn 1 This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items November 2015 Gold Olympic Order Edit Year Recipient Country Note1975 Avery Brundage United States1980 Lord Killanin Ireland1981 Lord Exeter United KingdomPope John Paul II Vatican City 2 Dr Amadou Mahtar M Bow SenegalKing Olav V Norway1982 Ahmad Shah of Pahang Malaysia1983 Indira Gandhi India 3 4 1984 Branko Mikulic YugoslaviaFrancois Mitterrand FrancePeter Ueberroth United States1985 Nicolae Ceausescu RomaniaErich Honecker East GermanyKing Juan Carlos I Spain 5 1986 Wan Li China1987 King Bhumibol Adulyadej ThailandGeneral Kenan Evren TurkeyTodor Zhivkov Bulgaria 6 1988 Prince Rainier III MonacoPrince Bertil Bernadotte SwedenFrank Edward King CanadaMario Vazquez Rana MexicoPark Seh jik South Korea1989 Raoul Mollet BelgiumEmperor Akihito JapanRafael Hernandez Colon Puerto Rico1990 Giulio Andreotti Italy1991 Jean de Beaumont FranceYoshiaki Tsutsumi JapanWilli Daume West Germany1992 Pasqual Maragall SpainCarlos Arthur Nuzman Brazil 7 Michel Barnier FranceJavier Gomez Navarro SpainJose Miguel Abad SpainJean Claude Killy FranceJordi Pujol SpainLeopoldo Rodes SpainCarlos Salinas de Gotari MexicoNarcis Serra SpainJavier Solana Spain1993 Boris Yeltsin Russia 8 1994 Gerhard Heiberg NorwayRichard von Weizsacker GermanyNelson Mandela South Africa 9 Joaquin Leguina SpainDr Mauno Koivisto Finland 10 King Harald V of Norway NorwayQueen Sonja of Norway Norway1995 Arpad Goncz HungaryRobert Mugabe Zimbabwe1996 William Porter Payne United StatesKonstantinos Stephanopoulos GreeceAdolphus Drewery United StatesAndrew Young United StatesIslam Karimov Uzbekistan1997 Blaise Compaore Burkina FasoOmar Bongo GabonNursultan Nazarbaev KazakhstanElias Hrawi LebanonErnesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon MexicoAleksander Kwasniewski PolandSuleyman Demirel Turkey1998 Kim Dae jung South KoreaJean Grand Duke of Luxembourg Luxembourg 11 Eishiro Saito Japan 12 2000 Adolf Ogi Switzerland 13 Michael Knight AustraliaJohn Coates Australia 14 2001 Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said Oman 15 Goh Chok Tong SingaporeVladimir Putin Russia Withdrawn on 28 February 2022 16 17 Juan Antonio Samaranch Spain 18 19 Abdoulaye Wade Senegal2002 Fraser Bullock United StatesJacques Chirac FranceKeba Mbaye SenegalMitt Romney United States2003 Emile Lahoud LebanonJohn Howard Australia2004 Gianna Angelopoulos Daskalaki GreeceAbdelaziz Bouteflika AlgeriaJohannes Rau Germany 20 Martinos Simitsek Greece2005 Theodore Angelopoulos Greece2006 Valentino Castellani Italy2007 Kofi Annan Ghana2008 Liu Qi China2009 Jack Poole Canada Posthumously awarded2010 S R Nathan Singapore 21 Lee Hsien Loong Singapore 22 John Furlong Canada 23 2012 Lord Coe United KingdomLord Deighton United Kingdom2013 King Willem Alexander NetherlandsCount Jacques Rogge Belgium 24 King Felipe VI Spain 25 Pope Francis Vatican City 26 Xi Jinping China 27 2014 Dmitry Chernyshenko Russia Withdrawn on 28 February 2022 16 Dmitry Kozak Russia Withdrawn on 28 February 2022 16 2015 Margareta of Romania Romania 28 2016 Carlos Arthur Nuzman Brazil 29 2018 Lee Hee beom South Korea 30 Fernando Botero ColombiaMoon Jae in South Korea 31 Mauricio Macri Argentina 32 2020 Shinzo Abe Japan2021 Seiko Hashimoto JapanYoshihide Suga JapanYuriko Koike Japan2022 Sun Chunlan China 33 Cai Qi China 33 Andrzej Duda Poland 34 Silver Olympic Order Edit Year Recipient Country Note1975 Mr Ryotaro Azuma JapanMr Miguel de Capriles United StatesLieutenant Colonel Rudyard Russell United Kingdom1976 Mr Paul Anspach BelgiumMr Harold Austad New ZealandMr Albert Demaurex SwitzerlandMr Dan Ferris United StatesMr Jesse Owens United StatesMr Hector Paysse Reyes UruguayMr Walter Wulfing West Germany1977 Colonel Sir Michael Ansell United KingdomMrs Inger Frith Denmark United KingdomMr Sven Laftman SwedenMr Anselmo Lopez SpainDr Rudolf Nemetschke AustriaMr Seiji Tabata Japan1978 Prince Bertil Bernadotte SwedenBatonnier Rene Bondoux FranceColonel Domingos de Sousa PortugalMr Falih Fahmi IraqMr John Emrys Lloyd United KingdomMr Adriano Rodoni ItalyMr Mario Vazquez Rana Mexico1979 Dr Haj Omar Boucetta MoroccoGeneral Gustaf Dyrssen SwedenMr Mikio Oda JapanEr Harold Madison Wright Canada1980 Professor Arnold H Beckett United KingdomEr Pablo Cagnasso ArgentinaMr Franco Carraro ItalyMr Benito Castejon SpainMr Claude Collard FranceProfessor Albert Dirix BelgiumSir Denis Follows United KingdomMr Sydney Grange AustraliaMr Kurt Hasler SwitzerlandMr Frederick Holder United KingdomLord Howell United KingdomColonel Raoul Mollet BelgiumMr Renato William Jones United KingdomMr Ignati Novikov Soviet UnionMr Charles Palmer United KingdomMr Henri Pouret FranceMr Amilcare Rotta Italy 35 Mr Anton Skataretiko YugoslaviaMr Bertil Sallfors SwedenMr Yoshiyuki Tsuruta Japan1981 Mr Gerard d Aboville FranceMr Roone Arledge United StatesMr Jacinto Balleste SpainMr Rafael Barquero Chaves Costa RicaMr Arpad Bogsch United StatesMr Charles de Coquereaumont FranceMr David Coward United KingdomDr Max Danz West GermanyMr Jean Pascal Delamuraz SwitzerlandMr Henry Joseph Dieme SenegalMr Bo Ekelund SwedenMr Pierre Ferri FranceMr Jacques Goddet FranceMr Gisli Halldorsson IcelandDr Harold W Henning United StatesMrs Hideko Hyodo JapanMr Enrikas Juskhevitsus Soviet UnionMr Kurt Moller DenmarkMs Elena Mukhina Soviet Union 36 37 38 Mr Desmond O Sullivan IrelandMr Adriaan Paulen NetherlandsMr Adriano Rodoni ItalyMr Abdel Moneim Wahby Egypt1982 Prince Franz Joseph II LiechtensteinMr Frantisek Kroutil CzechoslovakiaMr Paavo Mikko Honkajuuri FinlandPrince Tsuneyoshi Takeda JapanMr Jose Beracasa VenezuelaSultan Hamengkubuwono IX IndonesiaGeneral Sven Thofelt SwedenMr Avinash Chandra Chatterji IndiaMr Jose Ramon Fernandez CubaMr Haim Glowinsky IsraelMr Ichiro Hatta JapanMr Clarence H Johnson United StatesMr Robert Kane United StatesMr Alois Lugger AustriaMr Fernando Luis Pereira Machado PortugalMr Paul Rene Martin SwitzerlandMr Trendafil Martinski BulgariaMr Edgar Mercier FranceMr Laszlo Papp HungaryMr Joao Carlos de Oliveira BrazilMr Giovanni Romagna ItalyMr Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales Hong KongMr Angel Solakov BulgariaMr Habib Thiam SenegalMr Jukka Uunila Finland1983 Mr Kouassi Angama Ivory CoastMr Georges Athanassiadis GreeceSir Gerald Cash BahamasDr Arpad Csanadi HungaryMrs Betty Cuthbert AustraliaMr Eduardo Dibos PeruMr Laurent Dona Fologo Ivory CoastLieutenant General Marin Dragnea RomaniaMr Jean Drapeau CanadaMrs Ilona Elek HungaryMr Massoud Ahmded El Zantouti LibyaMr Manfred Ewald East GermanyMrs Marie Therese Eyquem FranceMr Sisto Favre ItalyMr Edgar Fried AustriaDr Abdel Halim Muhammad SudanMr Kim Taik soo South KoreaMrs Galina Kulakova Soviet UnionMr Leopoldo de Leon PanamaMr Aleksandr Medved Soviet UnionMr Roger Menard FranceMr Chuhei Nambu JapanMr Robert F Osborne CanadaMr Javier Ostos SpainMr Julius Lockington Patching AustraliaMr Berge Philips AustraliaMr Gaotang Rong ChinaMr Victor Saneev Soviet UnionMr Katsuji Shibata JapanMr Sergei Chalibashvili Soviet UnionMrs Lidiya Skoblikova Soviet Union1984 Mr Abdelhamid Rachdi Alami MoroccoMr Abilio Ferreira d Almeida BrazilMr Luis Azemar Puig de la Bellacasa SpainMr Motohiko Ban JapanMrs Herma Bauma AustriaMr Bo Bengston SwedenMr Jean Borotra FranceMr Paolo Cappabianca ItalyMr Juan Jose Castillo SpainMr Harry H Cavan United KingdomMs Nadia Comăneci Romania 39 Mr George Craig New ZealandDr Beppe Croce ItalyMr Sandy Duncan United KingdomMr Suat Erler TurkeyMr Rene Frank BelgiumMr Akira Fujita JapanMr Antonin Himl CzechoslovakiaMr Pierre Hirschy SwitzerlandMr Bert Isatitsch AustriaMr Pal Kovacs HungaryMr Paul Libaud FranceMr Hero Lupescu RomaniaColonel F Don Miller United StatesMr Julio Enrique Monagas Puerto RicoMr Hadj Ibrahim Mbomba Njoya CameroonMr Renzo Nostini ItalyMr Fred B Oberlander CanadaMr Nelson Paillou FranceMr Marian Renke PolandMr Walter J M A von Rosberg Netherlands AntillesMr Zhong Shitong ChinaMr Olegario Vazquez Rafia MexicoMrs Helene Ahrweiler France 40 Mr Abdul Hameed Al Hajji KuwaitMr Aldo Bergamaschi ItalyMr Fred Blay LiberiaMr Emeric Blum YugoslaviaMr Tom Bradley citation needed United StatesMr Gian Carlo Brusati ItalyMr Miroslav Cerar YugoslaviaMr Alain Danet FranceMr Horst Dassler West GermanyMr Abdelaziz Elshafei EgyptMr Milan Ercegan YugoslaviaMr Shunji Fujii JapanMr Knolly Henderson Trinidad and TobagoMr Paul Hogberg SwedenMr Samwel Mbogo Kamau KenyaMr Ahmed Karabegovic YugoslaviaMr Kenjiro Mizuno JapanMr Primo Nebiolo ItalyMr Gunther Sabetzki West GermanyMr Keith Shervington JamaicaMr Baghadi Si Mohamed AlgeriaMr Anto Sucic YugoslaviaMr Artur Takac YugoslaviaMr Stanko Tomic YugoslaviaMr Harry Usher United StatesMr Uglijesa Uzelac YugoslaviaMr Paul Ziffren United States1985 Sir Adetokunbo Ademola NigeriaMr Alexa Haralambie RomaniaSheikh Isa bin Rashed Al Kalifa BahrainMr Hanji Aoki JapanMr Abdel Azim Ashry EgyptMr Tsegaw Ayele EthiopiaMr Edmund W Barker SingaporeMr Domenico Bruschi San MarinoMrs Christine Caron FranceMr Bud Greenspan United StatesMr Jozef Grudzien PolandMr Hermann Jannsen West GermanyMr John B Kelly Jr United StatesMr Ferdinand Siregar Mangombar IndonesiaMr Kenkichi Oshima JapanLord Porritt New ZealandMr Bedrich Poula CzechoslovakiaMr Ludwig Prokop AustriaMr Andre Gustavo Richer BrazilMr Raimundo Saporta SpainMr William Simon United StatesMr Borislav Stankovic YugoslaviaMr Joseph Lluis Vilaseca SpainMr Walter Wasservogel AustriaMr Jean Weymann SwitzerlandMr Lev Yashin Soviet Union1986 Mr Carlos Osorio de Almeida BrazilMr Lachezar Avramov BulgariaMr Mahmoud Ba MauritaniaMr Bernhard Baier West GermanyMrs Liselotl Diem West GermanyMr Justin Durand BeninMr Issac Froimovich ChileMr Julio Gerlcin Comelin ColombiaMr Carlos de Godo SpainMr Roberto C Goizueta United StatesMr Boris Gueorguiev BulgariaMr Cornelius Kerdel NetherlandsMr Antoine Khoui LebanonMr Jean Arnould Leew BelgiumAir Vice Marshal C L Metha IndiaMr Nikolaos Nissiotis GreeceMr Park Chong kyu South KoreaMr Pedro Perez Duenas CubaMr Ahmed Mohammed Qaatabi South YemenMr Max Rinkenburger West GermanyMr Douglas F Roby United StatesMr Julian K Roosevelt United StatesMr Roger Rousseau CanadaMr Ricardo Jose Russomando ArgentinaMr Andrey Starovoytov Soviet UnionMr William Thayer Tutt United StatesMr Tadeusz Ulatowski PolandMr Georges Vichos GreeceMr George Wieczisk East GermanyMr Huang Zhong China1987 Mr Francisco Ferreira Alves PortugalMr Abdel Moneim El Bah LibyaMr Boris Bakrac YugoslaviaJohn Brown Australia 41 Mr Gavrila Barani RomaniaMr John Joseph Brown AustraliaMr Ramiro Tavares Goncalves BrazilMr Rudolf Hellmann East GermanyMr Chen Jingkai ChinaMr Alberto Juantorena CubaMr Todor Zhivkov BulgariaMr Erich Kamper AustriaMr L N Khurana India 42 Mr Jean Claude Killy FranceMr Philip Othmar Krumm United StatesColonel Zdzisaw Ludwik Krzyszkowiak PolandMr Li Menghua ChinaMr Geoffrey de Navacelle FranceMr Sergio Orsi ItalyMr Lassina Palenfo Ivory CoastMr Marcel Pasche SwitzerlandMr Janusz Gorgoniusz Przedpeski PolandMr Haluk San TurkeyMr Teofilo Stevenson CubaMr Vladimir Stoychev BulgariaMr Leon Stukelj YugoslaviaMr Brian Wightman Fiji1988 Mr Ruben Acosta MexicoMr Constantin Andrianov Soviet UnionMr Francisco Alguersuari Duran SpainMrs Eileen Anderson United KingdomMr Juan Jose Castillo SpainMr Reiner Klimke West GermanyMr Juan de la LIcra Trcns SpainMr Bill Pratt CanadaMr Fernando Riba SpainMr Anisio Silva Rocha BrazilDr Joszef Sir HungaryKatarina Witt East GermanyRalph Klein CanadaJerzy Kukuczka PolandAntonio Mariscal MexicoJosef Neckermann West GermanyJasdev Singh India 43 44 Taieb Houichi TunisiaAnte Lambasa YugoslaviaWolf Lyberg SwedenFrederick Ruegsegger United States 45 1989 Larisa Latynina Soviet Union1990 Ivan Patzaichin Romania1992 Ludovit Komadel CzechoslovakiaJesus Alfonso Elizondo Najera Mexico1994 Vladimir Krivtsov RussiaShane Gould Australia1995 Eddy Merckx Belgium 46 Miguel Indurain Spain 47 Jerald M Jordan United States 48 1997 Karl Lennartz Germany 49 Oscar Schmidt Brazil 7 Ian Buchanan United Kingdom1998 Alexander Gomelsky RussiaGeoffrey Henke Australia 50 Makoto Kobayashi Japan 12 Tasuku Tsukada Japan 12 Goro Yoshimura Japan 12 1999 Brian Tobin Australia 51 Prince Abdul Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah Brunei 52 2000 Prof Lowitja O Donoghue AustraliaNorman May Australia2001 Ton Bijkerk Netherlands 53 Harry Gordon Australia 54 Cathy Freeman Australia2002 Peter Montgomery Australia2003 Mool Chand Chowhan India 55 56 2007 Marjorie Jackson Nelson Australia2008 He Zhenliang ChinaLiu Jingmin ChinaDeng Pufang ChinaChen Zhili China 57 2010 Teo Chee Hean SingaporeDr Ng Eng Hen SingaporeDr Vivian Balakrishnan SingaporeDr Tan Eng Liang SingaporeChris Chan SingaporeGoh Kee Nguan SingaporeDr Francis Chong SingaporeEric Tan Huck Gim Singapore 58 Les McDonald Canada 59 Michael A Chambers Canada 60 Nodar Kumaritashvili Georgia Posthumously awarded 61 2011 Fernando Lima Bello PortugalKip Keino Kenya 62 Vilnis Baltins Latvia 63 2012 Gary Anderson United States 64 Sir Keith Mills United KingdomLord 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