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Olympic Order

Highest award of the Olympic Movement

Olympic Order

Summary

Highest award of the Olympic Movement

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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 there would be no distinction between the silver and bronze order.

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 Some no longer have their orders, as they have been withdrawn.

Gold Olympic Order

YearRecipientCountryNote
1975Avery Brundage
1980Lord Killanin
1981Lord Exeter
Pope John Paul II
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow
King Olav V
1983Indira Gandhi
1984Ahmad Shah of Pahang
Branko Mikulić
François Mitterrand
Peter Ueberroth
1985Nicolae CeauşescuRSR
Erich Honecker
King Juan Carlos I
1986Wan Li
1987King Bhumibol Adulyadej
General Kenan Evren
Todor ZhivkovPRB
1988Prince Rainier III
Prince Bertil Bernadotte
Frank Walter King
Mario Vázquez Raña
Park Seh-jikKOR
1989Raoul Mollet
Emperor AkihitoJPN
Rafael Hernández Colón
1990Giulio AndreottiITA
1991Jean de Beaumont
Yoshiaki TsutsumiJPN
Willi Daume
1992Pasqual Maragall
Carlos Arthur Nuzmanurl=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fol/esp/s2030873.htmtitle = UOL - Brasil Online - Oscar recebe homenagem do COI 18/07/97 17h39}}
Michel Barnier
Javier Gómez-Navarro
José Miguel Abad
Jean-Claude Killy
Jordi Pujol
Leopoldo Rodés
Carlos Salinas de Gotari
Narcís Serra
Javier Solana
1993Boris YeltsinRUS
1994Gerhard Heiberg
Richard von Weizsäcker
Nelson Mandela
Joaquín Leguina
Mauno Koivisto
King Harald V of Norway
Queen Sonja of Norway
1995Árpád Göncz
Robert Mugabe
1996Billy Payne
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Adolphus Drewery
Andrew Young
Islam Karimov
1997Blaise Compaore
Omar Bongo
Nursultan Nazarbaev
Elias Hrawi
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Léon
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Suleyman Demirel
1998Kim Dae-jungKOR
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Eishiro Saitotitle=JOCについて、オリンピック・オーダー [Transl.: About the JOC, the Olympic Order]url=https://www.joc.or.jp/about/order/publisher=Japanese Olympic Committeeaccess-date=29 June 2019}}
1999Eduard ShevardnadzeGEO
2000Adolf Ogi
Lowitja O'Donoghue
John Coatesurl=http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/2000/OREXXVI35/OREXXVI35zf.pdf#page=3format=PDFtitle=Closing Ceremony (Sydney 2000)publisher=La84foundation.orgaccess-date=15 May 2015author=Myers, Morleypage=79archive-date=7 December 2010archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207104036/http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/2000/OREXXVI35/OREXXVI35zf.pdf#page=3url-status=dead}}
2001Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said
Goh Chok Tong
Vladimir PutinWithdrawn on 28 February 2022
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Abdoulaye Wade
2002Fraser Bullock
Jacques Chirac
Kéba Mbaye
Mitt Romney
Irwin Belk
2003Emile Lahoud
John Howard
2004Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
Costas Karamanlis
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Johannes Rau
Martinos Simitsek
2005Theodore Angelopoulos
2006Valentino CastellaniITA
2007Kofi Annan
2008Liu Qi
2009Jack PoolePosthumously awarded
2010S. R. Nathan
Lee Hsien Loong
John Furlong
2012Lord Coe
Lord Deighton
2013King Willem-Alexander
Count Jacques Rogge
King Felipe VItitle=Spanish sport still shines after failed Olympic bid, Crown Prince saysurl=http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2343812_spanish-sport-still-shines-after-failed-olympic-bid-crown-prince-says.htmlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426201456/http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2343812_spanish-sport-still-shines-after-failed-olympic-bid-crown-prince-says.htmlurl-status=deadarchive-date=April 26, 2014publisher=La Prensadate=December 18, 2013access-date=26 April 2014}}
Pope Francis
Xi Jinping
2014Dmitry ChernyshenkoWithdrawn on 28 February 2022
Dmitry KozakWithdrawn on 28 February 2022
2015Margareta of Romania
2016Carlos Arthur Nuzman
2018Lee Hee-beom
Fernando Botero
Moon Jae-in{{Cite weburl=https://www.korea.net/NewsFocus/policies/view?articleId=162865title=President Moon awarded Olympic Order in Gold for PyeongChang Gameswebsite=Korea.net}}
Mauricio Macri
2020Prokopis Pavlopoulos
Shinzo Abe
2021Seiko Hashimoto
Yoshihide Suga
Yuriko Koike
2022Sun Chunlantitle=IOC thanks Beijing 2022 for memorable Olympic Winter Gamesurl=https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-thanks-beijing-2022-for-memorable-olympic-winter-gameswebsite=International Olympic Committeedate=2022-02-21accessdate=2022-02-21 }}
Cai Qi
Andrzej Duda
2024Tony Estanguet
Emmanuel Macron
2025Thomas Bach

Silver Olympic Order

YearRecipientCountryNote
1975Mr. Ryotaro AzumaJPN
Mr. Miguel de Capriles
Lieutenant-Colonel Rudyard Russell
1976Mr. Paul Anspach
Mr. Harold Austad
Mr. Albert Demaurex
Mr. Dan Ferris
Mr. Jesse Owens
Mr. Héctor Paysse Reyes
Mr. Walter Wülfing
1977Colonel Sir Michael Ansell
Mrs. Inger Frith/
Mr. Sven Låftman
Mr. Anselmo LópezESP
Rudolf Nemetschke
Mr. Seiji TabataJPN
1978Prince Bertil Bernadotte
Bâtonnier René Bondoux
Colonel Domingos de Sousa
Mr. Falih FahmiIRQ
Mr. John Emrys Lloyd
Mr. Adriano RodoniITA
Mr. Mario Vázquez Raña
1979Haj Omar Boucetta
General Gustaf Dyrssen
Mr. Mikio OdaJPN
Er. Harold Madison Wright
1980Professor Arnold H. Beckett
Er. Pablo Cagnasso
Mr. Franco CarraroITA
Mr. Benito Castejón
Mr. Claude Collard
Professor Albert Dirix
Sir Denis Follows
Mr. Sydney Grange
Mr. Kurt Hasler
Mr. Frederick Holder
Lord Howell
Colonel Raoul Mollet
Mr. Renato William Jones
Mr. Ignati NovikovURS
Mr. Charles Palmer
Mr. Henri Pouret
Mr. Amilcare RottaITAurl=http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1984/ore206/ORE206v.pdf#page=28title=Olympic awards obtained (Olympic Review No. 206)publisher=La84foundation.orgaccess-date=2015-05-14archive-date=8 December 2010archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208040725/http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1984/ore206/ORE206v.pdf#page=28url-status=dead}}
Mr. Anton Skataretiko
Mr. Bertil Sallfors
Mr. Yoshiyuki TsurutaJPN
1981Mr. Gérard d'Aboville
Mr. Roone Arledge
Mr. Jacinto Balleste
Mr. Rafael Barquero Chaves
Mr. Árpád Bogsch
Mr. Charles de Coquereaumont
Mr. David Coward
Max Danz
Mr. Jean-Pascal Delamuraz
Mr. Henry Joseph Dieme
Mr. Bo Ekelund
Mr. Pierre Ferri
Mr. Jacques Goddet
Mr. Gísli Halldórsson
Harold W. Henning
Mrs. Hideko HyodoJPN
Mr. Enrikas Juskhevitsus
Mr. Kurt Møller
Ms. Elena Mukhina
Mr. Desmond O'Sullivan
Mr. Adriaan Paulen
Mr. Adriano RodoniITA
Mr. Abdel Moneim WahbyEGY
1982Prince Franz Joseph II
Mr. František Kroutil
Mr. Paavo Mikko Honkajuuri
Prince Tsuneyoshi TakedaJPN
Mr. José BeracasaVEN
Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX
General Sven Thofelt
Mr. Avinash Chandra Chatterji
Mr. José Ramón Fernández
Mr. Haim Glowinsky
Mr. Ichiro Hatta
Mr. Clarence H. Johnson
Mr. Robert Kane
Mr. Alois Lugger
Mr. Fernando Luis Pereira Machado
Mr. Paul-Rene Martin
Mr. Trendafil MartinskiBUL
Mr. Edgar Mercier
Mr. László Papp
Mr. João Carlos de OliveiraBRA
Mr. Giovanni RomagnaITA
Mr. Arnaldo de Oliveira SalesHKG
Mr. Angel SolakovBUL
Mr. Habib Thiam
Mr. Jukka Uunila
1983Mr. Kouassi Angama
Mr. Georges Athanassiadis
Sir Gerald Cash
Arpad Csanadi
Mrs. Betty Cuthbert
Mr. Eduardo Dibos
Mr. Laurent Dona-Fologo
Lieutenant-General Marin DragneaROU
Mr. Jean Drapeau
Mrs. Ilona Elek
Mr. Massoud Ahmded El-ZantoutiLBY
Mr. Manfred Ewald
Mrs. Marie-Thérèse Eyquem
Mr. Sisto FavreITA
Mr. Edgar Fried
Abdel Halim Muhammad
Mr. Kim Taik-sooKOR
Mrs. Galina Kulakova
Mr. Leopoldo de Leon
Mr. Aleksandr Medved
Mr. Roger Menard
Mr. Chūhei NambuJPN
Mr. Robert F. Osborne
Mr. Javier Ostos
Mr. Julius Lockington Patching
Mr. Berge Philips
Mr. Gaotang Rong
Mr. Victor Saneev
Mr. Katsuji ShibataJPN
Mr. Sergei Chalibashvili
Mrs. Lidiya Skoblikova
1984Mr. Abdelhamid Rachdi Alami
Mr. Abílio Ferreira d'AlmeidaBRA
Mr. Luis Azemar Puig de la Bellacasa
Mr. Motohiko BanJPN
Mrs. Herma Bauma
Mr. Bo Bengston
Mr. Jean Borotra
Mr. Paolo CappabiancaITA
Mr. Juan José Castillo
Mr. Harry H. Cavan
Ms. Nadia ComăneciROU
Mr. George Craig
Beppe CroceITA
Mr. Sandy Duncan
Mr. Suat Erler
Mr. Rene Frank
Mr. Akira FujitaJPN
Mr. Antonin Himl
Mr. Pierre Hirschy
Mr. Bert Isatitsch
Mr. Pal Kovacs
Mr. Paul Libaud
Mr. Hero LupescuROU
Colonel F. Don Miller
Mr. Julio Enrique Monagas
Mr. Hadj Ibrahim Mbomba Njoya
Mr. Renzo NostiniITA
Mr. Fred B. Oberlander
Mr. Nelson Paillou
Mr. Marian Renke
Mr. Walter J.M.A. von Rosberg
Mr. Zhong Shitong
Mr. Olegário Vazquez Rafia
Mrs. Helene Ahrweiler
Mr. Abdul Hameed Al-Hajji
Mr. Aldo BergamaschiITA
Mr. Fred Blay
Mr. Emeric Blum
Mr. Tom Bradley
Mr. Gian-Carlo BrusatiITA
Mr. Miroslav Cerar
Mr. Alain Danet
Mr. Horst Dassler
Mr. Abdelaziz Elshafei
Mr. Milan Ercegan
Mr. Shunji FujiiJPN
Mr. Knolly Henderson
Mr. Paul Högberg
Mr. Samwel Mbogo Kamau
Mr. Ahmed Karabegovic
Mr. Kenjiro MizunoJPN
Mr. Primo NebioloITA
Mr. Günther Sabetzki
Mr. Keith Shervington
Mr. Baghadi Si-Mohamed
Mr. Anto Sucic
Mr. Artur Takac
Mr. Stanko Tomic
Mr. Harry Usher
Mr. Uglijesa Uzelac
Mr. Paul Ziffren
1985Sir Adetokunbo Ademola
Mr. Alexa HaralambieROU
Sheikh Isa bin Rashed Al KalifaBHR
Mr. Hanji AokiJPN
Mr. Abdel Azim Ashry
Mr. Tsegaw AyeleETH
Mr. Edmund W. Barker
Mr. Domenico BruschiSMR
Mrs. Christine Caron
Mr. Bud Greenspan
Mr. Józef Grudzień
Mr. Hermann Jannsen
Mr. John B. Kelly Jr.
Mr. Ferdinand Siregar Mangombar
Mr. Kenkichi OshimaJPN
Lord Porritt
Mr. Bedřich Poula
Mr. Ludwig Prokop
Mr. André Gustavo RicherBRA
Mr. Raimundo Saporta
Mr. William Simon
Mr. Borislav Stanković
Mr. Josep Lluís Vilaseca
Mr. Walter Wasservogel
Mr. Jean Weymann
Mr. Lev Yashin
1986Mr. Carlos Osório de AlmeidaBRA
Mr. Lachezar AvramovBUL
Mr. Mahmoud BaMTN
Mr. Bernhard Baier
Mrs. Liselotl Diem
Mr. Justin DurandBEN
Mr. Issac Froimovich
Mr. Julio Gerlcin Comelin
Mr. Carlos de Godó
Mr. Roberto C. Goizueta
Mr. Boris GueorguievBUL
Mr. Cornelius Kerdel
Mr. Antoine Khoui
Mr. Jean-Arnould Leew
Air Vice Marshal C. L. Metha
Mr. Nikolaos Nissiotis
Mr.John Akii-Bua
Mr. Pedro Perez Duenas
Mr. Ahmed Mohammed QaatabiSouth Yemen
Mr. Max Rinkenburger
Mr. Douglas F. Roby
Mr. Julian K. Roosevelt
Mr. Roger Rousseau
Mr. Ricardo José Russomando
Mr. Andrey Starovoytov
Mr. William Thayer Tutt
Mr. Tadeusz Ulatowski
Mr. Georges Vichos
Mr. George Wieczisk
Mr. Huang Zhong
1987Mr. Francisco Ferreira Alves
Mr. Abdel Moneim El BahLBY
Mr. Boris Bakrač
John Brown
Mr. Gavrila BaraniROU
Mr. John Joseph Brown
Mr. Ramiro Tavares GonçalvesBRA
Mr. Rudolf Hellmann
Mr. Chen Jingkai
Mr. Alberto Juantorena
Mr. Todor ZhivkovBUL
Mr. Erich Kamper
Mr. L. N. Khurana
Mr. Jean-Claude Killy
Mr. Philip Othmar Krumm
Colonel Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak
Mr. Li Menghua
Mr. Geoffrey de Navacelle
Mr. Sergio OrsiITA
Mr. Lassina Palenfo
Mr. Marcel Pasche
Mr. Janusz Przedpełski
Mr. Haluk San
Mr. Teofilo Stevenson
Mr. Vladimir StoychevBUL
Mr. Leon Štukelj
Mr. Brian Wightman
1988Mr. Ruben Acosta
Mr. Constantin Andrianov
Mr. Francisco Alguersuari Durán
Mrs. Eileen Anderson
Mr. Juan José Castillo
Mr. Reiner Klimke
Mr. Juan de la Llera Trens
Mr. Bill Pratt
Mr. Fernando Riba
Mr. Anisio Silva RochaBRA
Joszef Sir
Katarina Witt
Ralph Klein
Jerzy Kukuczka
Antonio Mariscal
Josef Neckermann
Jasdev Singh
Taieb HouichiTUN
Ante Lambasa
Wolf Lyberg
Frederick Ruegsegger
1989Larisa Latynina
1990Ivan Patzaichin
Reizo KoikeJPN
Naoto TajimaJPN
1992Ludovit Komadel
Jesús Alfonso Elizondo Nájera
1994Vladimir Krivtsov
Shane Gould
1995Eddy Merckx
Miguel Indurain
Jerald M. Jordan
1997Karl Lennartz
Oscar Schmidt
Ian Buchanan
1998Alexander Gomelsky
Geoffrey Henke
Makoto Kobayashi
Tasuku Tsukada
Goro Yoshimura
Joan Creus
1999Brian Tobin
Prince Abdul Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah
2000Prof. Lowitja O'Donoghue
Norman May
2001Ton Bijkerk
Harry Gordontitle=Journalist Harry Gordon dies, aged 89url=http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/journalist-harry-gordon-dies-aged-89-20150122-12vmda.htmlaccess-date=24 January 2015work=The Agedate=22 January 2015}}
Cathy Freeman
Bill Mallon
Kazuyoshi Funaki
Bjørn Dæhlie
2002Peter Montgomery
Shoichi Tomita
2003Mool Chand Chowhantitle=Olympic official Mool Chand Chowhan diesurl=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sports/olympic-official-mool-chand-chowhan-dies_100246205.htmlwork=Thaindian Newsdate=2009-09-11access-date=2009-09-29archive-date=1 March 2018archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301164638/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sports/olympic-official-mool-chand-chowhan-dies_100246205.htmlurl-status=dead }}
2004Robert Kocharian
2007Marjorie Jackson-Nelson
2008He Zhenliang
Liu Jingmin
Deng Pufang
Chen Zhili
2010Teo Chee Hean
Ng Eng Hen
Vivian Balakrishnan
Tan Eng Liang
Chris Chan
Goh Kee Nguan
Francis Chong
Eric Tan Huck Gim
Les McDonald
Michael A. Chambers
Nodar KumaritashviliPosthumously awarded
2011Fernando Lima Bello
Kip Keino
Vilnis Baltiņš
2012Gary Anderson
Sir Keith Mills
Lord Moynihan
Eiichi Kawateititle=FISU mourns loss of Eiichi Kawateiurl=http://www.fisu.net/en/FISU-mourns-loss-of-Eiichi-Kawatei-3133.html?mbID=5415work=International University Sports Federationdate=2013-08-06access-date=2013-08-31archive-date=19 August 2013archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819004706/http://www.fisu.net/en/FISU-mourns-loss-of-Eiichi-Kawatei-3133.html?mbID=5415url-status=dead }}
2015Lord Tevita Poasi Tupou
Irina Viner
2016Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Ilse Bechthold
Julio Maglione
Anton GeesinkPosthumously awarded
Reynaldo González LópezPosthumously awarded
Peter TallbergPosthumously awarded
Risto Nieminen
Vlade Divac
Narayana Ramachandran
2018Yeo Hyung-koo
Kim Jae-youl
Kim Joo-ho
2021Toshirō Mutō
2022Gou Zhongwen
Chen Jining
Wang Zhengpu
Zhang Jiandong
Han Zirong
2024Anne Hidalgo
Valérie Pécresse
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra
Patrick Ollier
Stéphane Troussel
Michel Cadot
Marc Guillaume
Étienne Thobois
Michaël Aloïsio

Bronze Olympic Order

YearRecipientCountryNote
1975Mr. Charles Debeur
Mr. Gyula Hegyi
Mr. John Kasyoka
Mrs. Lia ManoliuROU
Mrs. Ellen Preis
Jacques Thiébault
1976Mr. Helmut Behrendt
Mr. Antonio dos Reis CarneiroBRAdate=September–October 1976title=Olympic awards.journal=Olympic Reviewpublisher=The International Olympic Committeelocation=Lausanne, Switzerlandvolume=107-108pages=505–506url=http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1976/ore107/ore107r.pdfaccess-date=18 August 2009archive-date=9 August 2010archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809105956/http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1976/ore107/ore107r.pdfurl-status=dead}}
Mr. Walter JhungKOR
Mr. Abderrahman Khatib
Mrs. Zofia MironovaURS
Mr. Kleanthis Palaiologos
Mr. Haim Wein
1977Mr. Gunnar Hansen
Mrs. Nadia LekarskaBUL
Mr. Edoardo MangiarottiITA
Mr. Alberto Nariño Cheyne
Mr. Christian d'Oriola
Mr. Dutta Ray
Mr. Roberto Richards Aguiar
Mr. René de Raeve
1978Mr. Zafar Ali
Mihailo Andrejević
Mrs. Ludmilla TourischevaURS
Colonel Hassine HamoudaTUN
Mr. Harald Jespersen
Mrs. Ingrid Keller de Schiavoni
Mr. Surjit Singh Majithia
Mr. Paulo Martins MeiraBRA
Mr. Al Oerter
Mr. Michel Ravarino
Mr. Charles Riolo
Mr. Yoshinori SuzukiJPN
Mr. Hugo Virgilio Tedin
Mr. José Gamarra Zorrilla
1979Mr. Jeronymo Baptista BastosBRA
Mr. Alfredo Hohagen Díez Canseco
Mrs. Maria KwaśniewskaPOL
Colonel Marcel Leclef
Mr. Imre Németh
Mrs. Emmy Schwabe
Mr. Otto Szymiczek
Mrs. Lydia Zanchi
1980Mr. Sigge Bergman
Mrs. Elisabeth Ferris
Mrs. Dawn Fraser
Mr. Alex Erere
Mrs. Anita DeFrantz
Mr. Jean-Claude GangaCGO
Mr. Marcello GarroniITA
Mr. Michel Henault
Mr. John Hennessy
Mr. Luis E. Hurtado
Mr. Joseph Jungmann
Mr. Clare McDermott
Mr. Donato MartucciITA
Mr. Geoffrey Miller
Mr. Robert Pariente
Mr. John Rodda
Mr. Hussein Sejean
Mr. Walter Siegenthaler
Mr. Mustapha ThrayaTUN
Mr. Alexander YermakovURS
1981Mr. Slaheddine BalyTUN
Mr. Max Bangerter
Brigadier Henrique Alves Callado
Mr. Gregor Hradetzky
Mr. Károly Kárpáti
J. Raymond Owen
Mrs. Irina Rodnina
Mr. Kenneth A. Ryan
Mrs. Irena Szewińska
Mr. Eduardo Yáñez Zavala
1982Mr. Waldemar Baszanowski
Mr. Jaime Munoz Camposano
Mr. João da CostaBRA
Mr. Paul Elvstrøm
Mr. Sinan Erdem
Mr. Giuseppe Sabelli FiorettiITA
Mr. Gert Fredriksson
Mr. Arild Honne
Mr. Sixten Jernberg
Mr. Leonid Khomenkov
Mr. Guillermo Montoya Sanchez
Ridha MradTUN
Mr. Luis Chiriboga Parra
Mr. E. Howard Radford
Mr. Albert Riethausen
Mr. Donald Rowlands
Mr. Toni Sailer
Mr. Vladimir Smirnov
Mr. Ulrich Wehling
Mr. D. J. Williams
1983Mr. Antônio Carlos Almeida BragaBRA
Mr. Nikolai GueorguievBUL
Mr. Nigel Hacking
Mr. Erhard Georg Friedrich Hoehne
Mr. Guipro Koffi
Antonio Losada
Mr. Raden Maladi
Mr. Janusz Piewcewicz
Mr. Yücel Seçkiner
Mrs. Esther Roth-Shahamorov
1984Mr. Francisco Alguersuari Durán
Mr. Duarte Manuel de Almeida Bello
Mr. Siegfried Brietzke
Mr. Muhammad Naqi Butt
Mr. Bogomil NonevBUL
Mr. Alberto Passadore
Mr. Jozsef Szalay
Mr. Ashenafi YouriaETH

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.

YearRecipientCountryColourNote
1988Manfred von Brauchitsch
Arne B. Mollén
Mustapha Larfaoui
Aladár Gerevich
1989Larisa Latynina
1990Lee Kun-heeKOR
Jonathan Janson
Rudolf Kárpáti
Lamine Diack
Asnoldo DevonishVEN
1991Ioan Kunst-Ghermănescu
1992Hassan Agabani
José Azcona
Jorge Herrera Barona
Mário Carvalho Pini
Itzhak Caspi
Vahit Colakoglu
Evie Dennis
Deszo Gyarmati
Kurt HellerAwarded posthumously
Raul Ibarra Zapata
Viacheslav I. KoloskovRUS
Gaoussou Kone
Carlos Pardo
Mario PescanteITA
Baaron Pittenger
Eduardo Airaldi Rivarola
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Gottfried Schoedl
Gursewak Singh
Prof. Nikos Yalouris
Mrs. Caizhen Zhang
1993Jacques Blanc
Anna SinilkinaSilver
Ted Stevens
Jordi Pujol
Dražen PetrovićPosthumously awarded
1994Vladimir Krivcov
1996Christian Erb
Vladimir Maksimov
1997Chris de Brogliofirst=Peterlast=Haintitle=Chris de Broglio obituary, Weightlifter who played a key role in apartheid South Africa's expulsion from the Olympicsurl=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/30/chris-de-brogliowork=The Guardiandate=2014-07-30access-date=2014-08-11}}
Hendrika Mastenbroek
Roy Jones Jr.
Bob BarneyEstablishing the International Centre for Olympic Studies
1998Frédy Girardet
Chung Ju-yungKOR
Wolf-Dieter Montag
Erica Terpstra
Artūras Poviliūnas
1999Alexander Tikhonov
Steffi Graf
Antonio Spallino
Bertrand Piccard
Brian Jones
Frederic Prieto i Caballé
2000Res Brügger
Alberto TombaITA
David Coleman
Alida van den Bos{{cite newstitle=Alida van den Bos vereerd met olympische onderscheiding William K. Guegold at IOC Congress - For research into Olympic Musicpublisher=Algemeen Dagbladdate=September 14, 2000access-date=19 December 2011}}
2001Albert Scharf
Raymond Hahn
Enrique Sanz
Richard Bunn
Arvydas Sabonis
René Burkhalter
Arnold Green
Félix Savón
Eric Walter
Myriam Bédard
David Douillet
Krisztina Egerszegi
Cathy Freeman
Aleksandr Karelin
Marco MarinITA
Haile Gebrselassie
Naim Süleymanoğlu
Pirmin Zurbriggentitle=Olympic Order awarded to outstanding athletesurl=http://www.olympic.org/news?articleid=55759publisher=IOCdate=June 19, 2001access-date=19 December 2011}}
2002Erwin Lanc
Peter BlakePosthumously awarded
Shirley Strickland
Janis Grinbergas
Wayne Gretzky
Miroslav Šubrt
Walter Bush
Flor Isava-FonsecaVEN
Ashwini Kumar
David Wallechinsky
2003John Williams
Adolf Ogi
Jean Durry
2004Matthias Kleinert
Francoise Zweifel
Nadia Comăneci
George BolosSilver
2005Shirley Babashoff
2006Hans Wilhelm Gäb
2009Thor Nilsen
2012David Stern
2016Ottavio Cinquanta
Patrick Chamunda
UnknownDawn FraserSilver
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 RichmondGold
John Howard
Alexander Tikhonov/ Russian Federation?
Alexander Karelin
Doug ArnotSilverServices to London 2012
Mike Loynd
James Bulley
Richard George
Debbie Jevans
Ian Johnston
Gerry Pennell
Jean Tomlin

Trivia

Elena Mukhina became the youngest recipient of the Olympic Order in 1982 when she was 22 years old at the time of her award. She was also the only member of the Olympic Order who never competed at the Olympics.

Carlos Arthur Nuzman and Nadia Comaneci are the two only athletes to be awarded the Olympic Order twice.

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