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Olympic Order
Gold and Silver Olympic Orders
Awarded forContribution to the Olympic Movement
Presented by International Olympic Committee
History
First award1975
Most winsNadia Comăneci Rumänien (twice: 1984, 2004) and Carlos Arthur Nuzman Brasilien (twice: 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[edit]

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[edit]

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 Some no longer have their orders, as they have been withdrawn.[1]

Gold Olympic Order[edit]

Year Recipient Land Note
1975 Avery Brundage  Vereinigte Staaten
1980 Lord Killanin  Irland
1981 Lord Exeter  Vereinigtes Königreich
Pope John Paul II  Vatican City [2]
Dr. Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow  Senegal
King Olav V  Norwegen
1982 Ahmad Shah of Pahang  Malaysia
1983 Indira Gandhi  Indien [3][4]
1984 Branko Mikulić  Yugoslavia
François Mitterrand  Frankreich
Peter Ueberroth  Vereinigte Staaten
1985 Nicolae Ceauşescu  Rumänien
Erich Honecker  East Germany
King Juan Carlos I  Spanien [5]
1986 Wan Li  China
1987 King Bhumibol Adulyadej  Thailand
General Kenan Evren  Türkei
Todor Zhivkov  Bulgarien [6]
1988 Prince Rainier III  Monaco
Prince Bertil Bernadotte  Schweden
Frank Edward King  Kanada
Mario Vázquez Raña  Mexiko
Park Seh-jik  Südkorea
1989 Raoul Mollet  Belgien
Emperor Akihito  Japan
Rafael Hernández Colón  Puerto Rico
1990 Giulio Andreotti  Italien
1991 Jean de Beaumont  Frankreich
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi  Japan
Willi Daume  West Germany
1992 Pasqual Maragall  Spanien
Carlos Arthur Nuzman  Brasilien [7]
Michel Barnier  Frankreich
Javier Gómez-Navarro  Spanien
José Miguel Abad  Spanien
Jean-Claude Killy  Frankreich
Jordi Pujol  Spanien
Leopoldo Rodés  Spanien
Carlos Salinas de Gotari  Mexiko
Narcís Serra  Spanien
Javier Solana  Spanien
1993 Boris Yeltsin  Russland [8]
1994 Gerhard Heiberg  Norwegen
Richard von Weizsäcker  Deutschland
Nelson Mandela  Südafrika [9]
Joaquín Leguina  Spanien
Dr. Mauno Koivisto  Finnland [10]
King Harald V of Norway  Norwegen
Queen Sonja of Norway  Norwegen
1995 Árpád Göncz  Ungarn
Robert Mugabe  Simbabwe
1996 Billy Payne  Vereinigte Staaten
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos  Griechenland
Adolphus Drewery  Vereinigte Staaten
Andrew Young  Vereinigte Staaten
Islam Karimov  Usbekistan
1997 Blaise Compaore  Burkina Faso
Omar Bongo  Gabun
Nursultan Nazarbaev  Kasachstan
Elias Hrawi  Libanon
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Léon  Mexiko
Aleksander Kwaśniewski  Polen
Suleyman Demirel  Türkei
1998 Kim Dae-jung  Südkorea
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg  Luxemburg [11]
Eishiro Saito  Japan [12]
1999 Eduard Shevardnadze  Georgien [13][14]
2000 Adolf Ogi  Schweiz [15]
Lowitja O'Donoghue  Australien
John Coates  Australien [16]
2001 Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said  Oman [17]
Goh Chok Tong  Singapur
Vladimir Putin  Russland Withdrawn on 28 February 2022[18][19]
Juan Antonio Samaranch  Spanien [20][21]
Abdoulaye Wade  Senegal
2002 Fraser Bullock  Vereinigte Staaten
Jacques Chirac  Frankreich
Kéba Mbaye  Senegal
Mitt Romney  Vereinigte Staaten
2003 Emile Lahoud  Libanon
John Howard  Australien
2004 Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki  Griechenland
Costas Karamanlis  Griechenland [22]
Abdelaziz Bouteflika  Algerien
Johannes Rau  Deutschland [23]
Martinos Simitsek  Griechenland
2005 Theodore Angelopoulos  Griechenland
2006 Valentino Castellani  Italien
2007 Kofi Annan  Ghana
2008 Liu Qi  China
2009 Jack Poole  Kanada Posthumously awarded
2010 S. R. Nathan  Singapur [24]
Lee Hsien Loong  Singapur [25]
John Furlong  Kanada [26]
2012 Lord Coe  Vereinigtes Königreich
Lord Deighton  Vereinigtes Königreich
2013 King Willem-Alexander  Niederlande
Count Jacques Rogge  Belgien [27]
King Felipe VI  Spanien [28]
Pope Francis  Vatican City [29]
Xi Jinping  China [30]
2014 Dmitry Chernyshenko  Russland Withdrawn on 28 February 2022[18]
Dmitry Kozak  Russland Withdrawn on 28 February 2022[18]
2015 Margareta of Romania  Rumänien [31]
2016 Carlos Arthur Nuzman  Brasilien [32]
2018 Lee Hee-beom  Südkorea [33]
Fernando Botero  Kolumbien
Moon Jae-in  Südkorea [34]
Mauricio Macri  Argentinien [35]
2020 Prokopis Pavlopoulos  Griechenland
Shinzo Abe  Japan
2021 Seiko Hashimoto  Japan
Yoshihide Suga  Japan
Yuriko Koike  Japan
2022 Sun Chunlan  China [36]
Cai Qi  China [36]
Andrzej Duda  Polen [37]

Silver Olympic Order[edit]

Year Recipient Land Note
1975 Mr. Ryotaro Azuma  Japan
Mr. Miguel de Capriles  Vereinigte Staaten
Lieutenant-Colonel Rudyard Russell  Vereinigtes Königreich
1976 Mr. Paul Anspach  Belgien
Mr. Harold Austad  Neuseeland
Mr. Albert Demaurex  Schweiz
Mr. Dan Ferris  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Jesse Owens  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Héctor Paysse Reyes  Uruguay
Mr. Walter Wülfing  West Germany
1977 Colonel Sir Michael Ansell  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mrs. Inger Frith  Dänemark/ Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Sven Låftman  Schweden
Mr. Anselmo López  Spanien
Dr. Rudolf Nemetschke  Österreich
Mr. Seiji Tabata  Japan
1978 Prince Bertil Bernadotte  Schweden
Bâtonnier René Bondoux  Frankreich
Colonel Domingos de Sousa  Portugal
Mr. Falih Fahmi  Iraq
Mr. John Emrys Lloyd  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Adriano Rodoni  Italien
Mr. Mario Vázquez Raña  Mexiko
1979 Dr. Haj Omar Boucetta  Marokko
General Gustaf Dyrssen  Schweden
Mr. Mikio Oda  Japan
Er. Harold Madison Wright  Kanada
1980 Professor Arnold H. Beckett  Vereinigtes Königreich
Er. Pablo Cagnasso  Argentinien
Mr. Franco Carraro  Italien
Mr. Benito Castejón  Spanien
Mr. Claude Collard  Frankreich
Professor Albert Dirix  Belgien
Sir Denis Follows  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Sydney Grange  Australien
Mr. Kurt Hasler  Schweiz
Mr. Frederick Holder  Vereinigtes Königreich
Lord Howell  Vereinigtes Königreich
Colonel Raoul Mollet  Belgien
Mr. Renato William Jones  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Ignati Novikov  Soviet Union
Mr. Charles Palmer  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Henri Pouret  Frankreich
Mr. Amilcare Rotta  Italien [38]
Mr. Anton Skataretiko  Yugoslavia
Mr. Bertil Sallfors  Schweden
Mr. Yoshiyuki Tsuruta  Japan
1981 Mr. Gérard d'Aboville  Frankreich
Mr. Roone Arledge  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Jacinto Balleste  Spanien
Mr. Rafael Barquero Chaves  Costa Rica
Mr. Árpád Bogsch  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Charles de Coquereaumont  Frankreich
Mr. David Coward  Vereinigtes Königreich
Dr. Max Danz  West Germany
Mr. Jean-Pascal Delamuraz  Schweiz
Mr. Henry Joseph Dieme  Senegal
Mr. Bo Ekelund  Schweden
Mr. Pierre Ferri  Frankreich
Mr. Jacques Goddet  Frankreich
Mr. Gísli Halldórsson  Island
Dr. Harold W. Henning  Vereinigte Staaten
Mrs. Hideko Hyodo  Japan
Mr. Enrikas Juskhevitsus  Soviet Union
Mr. Kurt Møller  Dänemark
Ms. Elena Mukhina  Soviet Union [39][40][41]
Mr. Desmond O'Sullivan  Irland
Mr. Adriaan Paulen  Niederlande
Mr. Adriano Rodoni  Italien
Mr. Abdel Moneim Wahby  Ägypten
1982 Prince Franz Joseph II  Liechtenstein
Mr. František Kroutil  Czechoslovakia
Mr. Paavo Mikko Honkajuuri  Finnland
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda  Japan
Mr. José Beracasa  Venezuela
Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX  Indonesien
General Sven Thofelt  Schweden
Mr. Avinash Chandra Chatterji  Indien
Mr. José Ramón Fernández  Cuba
Mr. Haim Glowinsky  Israel
Mr. Ichiro Hatta  Japan
Mr. Clarence H. Johnson  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Robert Kane  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Alois Lugger  Österreich
Mr. Fernando Luis Pereira Machado  Portugal
Mr. Paul-Rene Martin  Schweiz
Mr. Trendafil Martinski  Bulgarien
Mr. Edgar Mercier  Frankreich
Mr. László Papp  Ungarn
Mr. João Carlos de Oliveira  Brasilien
Mr. Giovanni Romagna  Italien
Mr. Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales  Hongkong
Mr. Angel Solakov  Bulgarien
Mr. Habib Thiam  Senegal
Mr. Jukka Uunila  Finnland
1983 Mr. Kouassi Angama  Ivory Coast
Mr. Georges Athanassiadis  Griechenland
Sir Gerald Cash  Bahamas
Dr. Arpad Csanadi  Ungarn
Mrs. Betty Cuthbert  Australien
Mr. Eduardo Dibos  Peru
Mr. Laurent Dona-Fologo  Ivory Coast
Lieutenant-General Marin Dragnea  Rumänien
Mr. Jean Drapeau  Kanada
Mrs. Ilona Elek  Ungarn
Mr. Massoud Ahmded El-Zantouti  Libyen
Mr. Manfred Ewald  East Germany
Mrs. Marie-Thérèse Eyquem  Frankreich
Mr. Sisto Favre  Italien
Mr. Edgar Fried  Österreich
Dr. Abdel Halim Muhammad  Sudan
Mr. Kim Taik-soo  Südkorea
Mrs. Galina Kulakova  Soviet Union
Mr. Leopoldo de Leon  Panama
Mr. Aleksandr Medved  Soviet Union
Mr. Roger Menard  Frankreich
Mr. Chūhei Nambu  Japan
Mr. Robert F. Osborne  Kanada
Mr. Javier Ostos  Spanien
Mr. Julius Lockington Patching  Australien
Mr. Berge Philips  Australien
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  Marokko
Mr. Abílio Ferreira d'Almeida  Brasilien
Mr. Luis Azemar Puig de la Bellacasa  Spanien
Mr. Motohiko Ban  Japan
Mrs. Herma Bauma  Österreich
Mr. Bo Bengston  Schweden
Mr. Jean Borotra  Frankreich
Mr. Paolo Cappabianca  Italien
Mr. Juan José Castillo  Spanien
Mr. Harry H. Cavan  Vereinigtes Königreich
Ms. Nadia Comăneci  Rumänien [42]
Mr. George Craig  Neuseeland
Dr. Beppe Croce  Italien
Mr. Sandy Duncan  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Suat Erler  Türkei
Mr. Rene Frank  Belgien
Mr. Akira Fujita  Japan
Mr. Antonin Himl  Czechoslovakia
Mr. Pierre Hirschy  Schweiz
Mr. Bert Isatitsch  Österreich
Mr. Pal Kovacs  Ungarn
Mr. Paul Libaud  Frankreich
Mr. Hero Lupescu  Rumänien
Colonel F. Don Miller  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Julio Enrique Monagas  Puerto Rico
Mr. Hadj Ibrahim Mbomba Njoya  Kamerun
Mr. Renzo Nostini  Italien
Mr. Fred B. Oberlander  Kanada
Mr. Nelson Paillou  Frankreich
Mr. Marian Renke  Polen
Mr. Walter J.M.A. von Rosberg  Netherlands Antilles
Mr. Zhong Shitong  China
Mr. Olegário Vazquez Rafia  Mexiko
Mrs. Helene Ahrweiler  Frankreich [43]
Mr. Abdul Hameed Al-Hajji  Kuwait
Mr. Aldo Bergamaschi  Italien
Mr. Fred Blay  Liberia
Mr. Emeric Blum  Yugoslavia
Mr. Tom Bradley [citation needed]  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Gian-Carlo Brusati  Italien
Mr. Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia
Mr. Alain Danet  Frankreich
Mr. Horst Dassler  West Germany
Mr. Abdelaziz Elshafei  Ägypten
Mr. Milan Ercegan  Yugoslavia
Mr. Shunji Fujii  Japan
Mr. Knolly Henderson  Trinidad und Tobago
Mr. Paul Högberg  Schweden
Mr. Samwel Mbogo Kamau  Kenia
Mr. Ahmed Karabegovic  Yugoslavia
Mr. Kenjiro Mizuno  Japan
Mr. Primo Nebiolo  Italien
Mr. Günther Sabetzki  West Germany
Mr. Keith Shervington  Jamaika
Mr. Baghadi Si-Mohamed  Algerien
Mr. Anto Sucic  Yugoslavia
Mr. Artur Takac  Yugoslavia
Mr. Stanko Tomic  Yugoslavia
Mr. Harry Usher  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Uglijesa Uzelac  Yugoslavia
Mr. Paul Ziffren  Vereinigte Staaten
1985 Sir Adetokunbo Ademola  Nigeria
Mr. Alexa Haralambie  Rumänien
Sheikh Isa bin Rashed Al Kalifa  Bahrain
Mr. Hanji Aoki  Japan
Mr. Abdel Azim Ashry  Ägypten
Mr. Tsegaw Ayele  Äthiopien
Mr. Edmund W. Barker  Singapur
Mr. Domenico Bruschi  San Marino
Mrs. Christine Caron  Frankreich
Mr. Bud Greenspan  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Józef Grudzień  Polen
Mr. Hermann Jannsen  West Germany
Mr. John B. Kelly Jr.  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Ferdinand Siregar Mangombar  Indonesien
Mr. Kenkichi Oshima  Japan
Lord Porritt  Neuseeland
Mr. Bedřich Poula  Czechoslovakia
Mr. Ludwig Prokop  Österreich
Mr. André Gustavo Richer  Brasilien
Mr. Raimundo Saporta  Spanien
Mr. William Simon  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Borislav Stanković  Yugoslavia
Mr. Josep Lluís Vilaseca  Spanien
Mr. Walter Wasservogel  Österreich
Mr. Jean Weymann  Schweiz
Mr. Lev Yashin  Soviet Union
1986 Mr. Carlos Osório de Almeida  Brasilien
Mr. Lachezar Avramov  Bulgarien
Mr. Mahmoud Ba  Mauretanien
Mr. Bernhard Baier  West Germany
Mrs. Liselotl Diem  West Germany
Mr. Justin Durand  Benin
Mr. Issac Froimovich  Chile
Mr. Julio Gerlcin Comelin  Kolumbien
Mr. Carlos de Godó  Spanien
Mr. Roberto C. Goizueta  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Boris Gueorguiev  Bulgarien
Mr. Cornelius Kerdel  Niederlande
Mr. Antoine Khoui  Libanon
Mr. Jean-Arnould Leew  Belgien
Air Vice Marshal C. L. Metha  Indien
Mr. Nikolaos Nissiotis  Griechenland
Mr. Park Chong-kyu  Südkorea
Mr. Pedro Perez Duenas  Cuba
Mr. Ahmed Mohammed Qaatabi  South Yemen
Mr. Max Rinkenburger  West Germany
Mr. Douglas F. Roby  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Julian K. Roosevelt  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Roger Rousseau  Kanada
Mr. Ricardo José Russomando  Argentinien
Mr. Andrey Starovoytov  Soviet Union
Mr. William Thayer Tutt  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Tadeusz Ulatowski  Polen
Mr. Georges Vichos  Griechenland
Mr. George Wieczisk  East Germany
Mr. Huang Zhong  China
1987 Mr. Francisco Ferreira Alves  Portugal
Mr. Abdel Moneim El Bah  Libyen
Mr. Boris Bakrac  Yugoslavia
John Brown  Australien [44]
Mr. Gavrila Barani  Rumänien
Mr. John Joseph Brown  Australien
Mr. Ramiro Tavares Gonçalves  Brasilien
Mr. Rudolf Hellmann  East Germany
Mr. Chen Jingkai  China
Mr. Alberto Juantorena  Cuba
Mr. Todor Zhivkov  Bulgarien
Mr. Erich Kamper  Österreich
Mr. L. N. Khurana  Indien [45]
Mr. Jean-Claude Killy  Frankreich
Mr. Philip Othmar Krumm  Vereinigte Staaten
Colonel Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak  Polen
Mr. Li Menghua  China
Mr. Geoffrey de Navacelle  Frankreich
Mr. Sergio Orsi  Italien
Mr. Lassina Palenfo  Ivory Coast
Mr. Marcel Pasche  Schweiz
Mr. Janusz Przedpełski  Polen
Mr. Haluk San  Türkei
Mr. Teofilo Stevenson  Cuba
Mr. Vladimir Stoychev  Bulgarien
Mr. Leon Štukelj  Yugoslavia
Mr. Brian Wightman  Fidschi
1988 Mr. Ruben Acosta  Mexiko
Mr. Constantin Andrianov  Soviet Union
Mr. Francisco Alguersuari Durán  Spanien
Mrs. Eileen Anderson  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Juan José Castillo  Spanien
Mr. Joan Creus  Spanien
Mr. Reiner Klimke  West Germany
Mr. Juan de la LIcra Trcns  Spanien
Mr. Bill Pratt  Kanada
Mr. Fernando Riba  Spanien
Mr. Anisio Silva Rocha  Brasilien
Dr. Joszef Sir  Ungarn
Katarina Witt  East Germany
Ralph Klein  Kanada
Jerzy Kukuczka  Polen
Antonio Mariscal  Mexiko
Josef Neckermann  West Germany
Jasdev Singh  Indien [46][47]
Taieb Houichi  Tunesien
Ante Lambasa  Yugoslavia
Wolf Lyberg  Schweden
Frederick Ruegsegger  Vereinigte Staaten [48]
1989 Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
1990 Ivan Patzaichin  Rumänien
1992 Ludovit Komadel  Czechoslovakia
Jesús Alfonso Elizondo Nájera  Mexiko
1994 Vladimir Krivtsov  Russland
Shane Gould  Australien
1995 Eddy Merckx  Belgien [49]
Miguel Indurain  Spanien [50]
Jerald M. Jordan  Vereinigte Staaten [51]
1997 Karl Lennartz  Deutschland [52]
Oscar Schmidt  Brasilien [7]
Ian Buchanan  Vereinigtes Königreich
1998 Alexander Gomelsky  Russland
Geoffrey Henke  Australien [53]
Makoto Kobayashi  Japan [12]
Tasuku Tsukada  Japan [12]
Goro Yoshimura  Japan [12]
1999 Brian Tobin  Australien [54]
Prince Abdul Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah  Brunei [55]
2000 Prof. Lowitja O'Donoghue  Australien
Norman May  Australien
2001 Ton Bijkerk  Niederlande [56]
Harry Gordon  Australien [57]
Cathy Freeman  Australien
Dr. Bill Mallon  Vereinigte Staaten
2002 Peter Montgomery  Australien
2003 Mool Chand Chowhan  Indien [58][59]
2004 Robert Kocharian  Armenien
2007 Marjorie Jackson-Nelson  Australien
2008 He Zhenliang  China
Liu Jingmin  China
Deng Pufang  China
Chen Zhili  China [60]
2010 Teo Chee Hean  Singapur
Dr. Ng Eng Hen  Singapur
Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan  Singapur
Dr. Tan Eng Liang  Singapur
Chris Chan  Singapur
Goh Kee Nguan  Singapur
Dr. Francis Chong  Singapur
Eric Tan Huck Gim  Singapur [61]
Les McDonald  Kanada [62]
Michael A. Chambers  Kanada [63]
Nodar Kumaritashvili  Georgien Posthumously awarded [64]
2011 Fernando Lima Bello  Portugal
Kip Keino  Kenia [65]
Vilnis Baltiņš  Lettland [66]
2012 Gary Anderson  Vereinigte Staaten [67]
Sir Keith Mills  Vereinigtes Königreich
Lord Moynihan  Vereinigtes Königreich [68]
2015 Lord Tevita Poasi Tupou  Tonga [69]
Irina Viner  Russland [70]
2016 Edson Arantes do Nascimento  Brasilien [71]
Ilse Bechthold  Deutschland
Julio Maglione  Uruguay
Anton Geesink  Niederlande Posthumously awarded
Reynaldo González López  Cuba Posthumously awarded
Peter Tallberg  Finnland Posthumously awarded
Risto Nieminen  Finnland
Vlade Divac  Serbien [72]
Narayana Ramachandran  Indien [73]
2018 Yeo Hyung-koo  Südkorea
Kim Jae-youl  Südkorea
Kim Joo-ho  Südkorea [74]
2021 Toshirō Mutō  Japan [75]
2022 Gou Zhongwen  China [36]
Chen Jining  China [36]
Wang Zhengpu  China [36]
Zhang Jiandong  China [36]
Han Zirong  China [36]

Bronze Olympic Order[edit]

Year Recipient Land Note
1975 Mr. Charles Debeur  Belgien
Mr. Gyula Hegyi  Ungarn
Mr. John Kasyoka  Kenia
Mrs. Lia Manoliu  Rumänien
Mrs. Ellen Preis  Österreich
Dr. Jacques Thiébault  Frankreich
1976 Mr. Helmut Behrendt  East Germany
Mr. Antonio dos Reis Carneiro  Brasilien [76]
Mr. Walter Jhung  Südkorea
Mr. Abderrahman Khatib  Marokko
Mrs. Zofia Mironova  Soviet Union
Mr. Kleanthis Palaiologos  Griechenland
Mr. Haim Wein  Israel
1977 Mr. Gunnar Hansen  Dänemark
Mrs. Nadia Lekarska  Bulgarien
Mr. Edoardo Mangiarotti  Italien
Mr. Alberto Nariño Cheyne  Kolumbien
Mr. Christian d'Oriola  Frankreich
Mr. Dutta Ray  Indien
Mr. Roberto Richards Aguiar  Cuba
Mr. René de Raeve  Belgien
1978 Mr. Zafar Ali  Pakistan
Prof. Dr. Mihailo Andrejević  Yugoslavia
Mrs. Ludmilla Tourischeva  Soviet Union
Colonel Hassine Hamouda  Tunesien
Mr. Harald Jespersen  Dänemark
Mrs. Ingrid Keller de Schiavoni  Guatemala
Mr. Surjit Singh Majithia  Indien
Mr. Paulo Martins Meira  Brasilien
Mr. Al Oerter  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Michel Ravarino  Monaco
Mr. Charles Riolo  Schweiz
Mr. Yoshinori Suzuki  Japan
Mr. Hugo Virgilio Tedin  Argentinien
Mr. José Gamarra Zorrilla  Bolivien
1979 Mr. Jeronymo Baptista Bastos  Brasilien
Mr. Alfredo Hohagen Díez Canseco  Peru
Mrs. Maria Kwaśniewska  Polen
Colonel Marcel Leclef  Belgien [38]
Mr. Imre Németh  Ungarn
Mrs. Emmy Schwabe  Österreich
Mr. Otto Szymiczek  Griechenland
Mrs. Lydia Zanchi  Schweiz
1980 Mr. Sigge Bergman  Schweden
Mrs. Elisabeth Ferris  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mrs. Dawn Fraser  Australien
Mr. Alex Erere  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mrs. Anita DeFrantz  Vereinigte Staaten
Mr. Jean-Claude Ganga  Congo
Mr. Marcello Garroni  Italien
Mr. Michel Henault  Frankreich
Mr. John Hennessy  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Luis E. Hurtado  Panama
Mr. Joseph Jungmann  Czechoslovakia
Mr. Clare McDermott  Kanada
Mr. Donato Martucci  Italien
Mr. Geoffrey Miller  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Robert Pariente  Frankreich
Mr. John Rodda  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Hussein Sejean  Libanon
Mr. Walter Siegenthaler  Schweiz
Mr. Mustapha Thraya  Tunesien
Mr. Alexander Yermakov  Soviet Union
1981 Mr. Slaheddine Baly  Tunesien
Mr. Max Bangerter  Schweiz
Brigadier Henrique Alves Callado  Portugal
Mr. Gregor Hradetzky  Österreich
Mr. Károly Kárpáti  Ungarn
Dr. J. Raymond Owen  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mrs. Irina Rodnina  Soviet Union
Mr. Kenneth A. Ryan  Irland
Mrs. Irena Szewińska  Polen
Mr. Eduardo Yáñez Zavala  Chile
1982 Mr. Waldemar Baszanowski  Polen
Mr. Jaime Munoz Camposano  Ecuador
Mr. João da Costa  Brasilien
Mr. Paul Elvstrøm  Dänemark
Mr. Sinan Erdem  Türkei
Mr. Giuseppe Sabelli Fioretti  Italien
Mr. Gert Fredriksson  Schweden
Mr. Arild Honne  Norwegen
Mr. Sixten Jernberg  Schweden
Mr. Leonid Khomenkov  Soviet Union
Mr. Guillermo Montoya Sanchez  Mexiko
Dr. Ridha Mrad  Tunesien
Mr. Luis Chiriboga Parra  Ecuador
Mr. E. Howard Radford  Kanada
Mr. Albert Riethausen  West Germany
Mr. Donald Rowlands  Neuseeland
Mr. Toni Sailer  Österreich
Mr. Vladimir Smirnov  Soviet Union
Mr. Ulrich Wehling  East Germany
Mr. D. J. Williams  Bermuda
1983 Mr. Antônio Carlos Almeida Braga  Brasilien
Mr. Nikolai Gueorguiev  Bulgarien
Mr. Nigel Hacking  Vereinigtes Königreich
Mr. Erhard Georg Friedrich Hoehne  East Germany
Mr. Guipro Koffi  Ivory Coast
Dr. Antonio Losada  Chile
Mr. Raden Maladi  Indonesien
Mr. Janusz Piewcewicz  Polen
Mr. Yücel Seçkiner  Türkei
Mrs. Esther Roth-Shahamorov  Israel [77]
1984 Mr. Francisco Alguersuari Durán  Spanien
Mr. Duarte Manuel de Almeida Bello  Portugal
Mr. Siegfried Brietzke  West Germany
Mr. Muhammad Naqi Butt  Pakistan
Mr. Bogomil Nonev  Bulgarien
Mr. Alberto Passadore  Uruguay
Mr. Jozsef Szalay  Ungarn
Mr. Ashenafi Youria  Äthiopien

Recipients with missing data[edit]

Following is the list of recipients of Olympic Order with some missing data like year of award, country and colour of award.

Year Recipient Land Colour Note
1988 Manfred von Brauchitsch  West Germany
Arne B. Mollén  Norwegen [78]
Mustapha Larfaoui  Algerien
Aladár Gerevich  Ungarn
1989 Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
1990 Lee Kun-hee  Südkorea
Jonathan Janson  Vereinigtes Königreich
Rudolf Kárpáti  Ungarn
Reizo Koike  Japan
Naoto Tajima
Lamine Diack  Senegal
Asnoldo Devonish  Venezuela [79]
1991 Ioan Kunst-Ghermănescu  Rumänien
1992 Hassan Agabani  Sudan [80]
José Azcona  Mexiko
Jorge Herrera Barona  Kolumbien
Dr. Mário Carvalho Pini  Brasilien
Itzhak Caspi  Israel
Vahit Colakoglu  Türkei
Dr. Evie Dennis  Vereinigte Staaten
Deszo Gyarmati  Ungarn
Kurt Heller  Australien Awarded posthumously
Raul Ibarra Zapata  Mexiko
Viacheslav I. Koloskov  Russland
Gaoussou Kone  Ivory Coast
Carlos Pardo  Spanien
Mario Pescante  Italien
Baaron Pittenger  Vereinigte Staaten
Eduardo Airaldi Rivarola  Peru
Carlos Salinas de Gortari  Mexiko
Gottfried Schoedl  Österreich
Gursewak Singh  Indien
Prof. Nikos Yalouris  Griechenland
Mrs. Caizhen Zhang  China
1993 Jacques Blanc  Frankreich
Anna Sinilkina  Russland Silver [81]
Ted Stevens  Vereinigte Staaten [82]
Jordi Pujol  Spanien
Dražen Petrović  Kroatien Posthumously awarded [83]
1994 Vladimir Krivcov  Russland
1996 Christian Erb  Schweiz
Vladimir Maksimov  Russland
1997 Chris de Broglio  Südafrika [84]
Hendrika Mastenbroek  Niederlande
Roy Jones Jr.  Vereinigte Staaten
Bob Barney  Kanada Establishing the International Centre for Olympic Studies[85][86]
1998 Frédy Girardet  Schweiz
Chung Ju-yung  Südkorea
Wolf-Dieter Montag  Deutschland [87]
Erica Terpstra  Niederlande
Artūras Poviliūnas  Litauen
1999 Alexander Tikhonov  Russland
Steffi Graf  Deutschland [88]
Antonio Spallino  Italien [89]
Bertrand Piccard  Schweiz
Brian Jones  England [90]
2000 Res Brügger
Alberto Tomba  Italien [91]
David Coleman  England
Alida van den Bos  Niederlande [92]
2001 Albert Scharf [93]
Raymond Hahn  Frankreich
Enrique Sanz  Spanien [94]
Richard Bunn  Schweiz
Arvydas Sabonis  Litauen [95]
René Burkhalter  Schweiz
Arnold Green  Estland
Félix Savón  Cuba
Eric Walter [96]
Myriam Bédard  Kanada
David Douillet  Frankreich
Krisztina Egerszegi  Ungarn
Cathy Freeman  Australien
Kazuyoshi Funaki  Japan
Aleksandr Karelin  Russland
Marco Marin  Italien
Haile Gebrselassie  Äthiopien
Naim Süleymanoğlu  Türkei [97]
Pirmin Zurbriggen  Schweiz [98]
2002 Erwin Lanc  Österreich
Peter Blake  Neuseeland Posthumously awarded
Shirley Strickland  Australien [99]
Janis Grinbergas  Litauen [100]
Wayne Gretzky  Kanada
Miroslav Šubrt  Tschechische Republik
Walter Bush  Vereinigte Staaten
Shoichi Tomita  Japan [101]
Flor Isava-Fonseca  Venezuela
Ashwini Kumar  Indien [102]
David Wallechinsky  Vereinigte Staaten [103]
2003 John Williams [104]
Adolf Ogi  Schweiz [105]
Jean Durry  Frankreich [106]
2004 Matthias Kleinert
Francoise Zweifel [107]
Nadia Comăneci  Rumänien [108]
George Bolos Silver
2005 Shirley Babashoff  Vereinigte Staaten
2006 Hans Wilhelm Gäb
2009 Thor Nilsen [109]
2012 Eiichi Kawatei  Japan [110]
David Stern  Vereinigte Staaten
2016 Ottavio Cinquanta  Italien
Patrick Chamunda  Sambia
Unknown Dawn Fraser  Australien Silver
William Berge Phillips
Julius Patching
Herb Elliott
John Devitt
Stepan Kerkyasharian
Sandy Hollway
Jim Sloman
Michael Eyers
Bob Leece
Mick O'Brien
Robert Elphinston
Margaret McLennan
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  Vereinigte Staaten Silver Services to London 2012
Mike Loynd
James Bulley  Vereinigtes Königreich
Richard George
Debbie Jevans
Ian Johnston
Gerry Pennell
Jean Tomlin

Trivia[edit]

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[edit]

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