Olympic Hymn

History

Lyrics

List of performances at the Olympics

Olympics	City	Language Performed	Notes
1896 Summer	Athens, Kingdom of Greece	Greek	The anthem was performed for the first time at the opening ceremony.
1960 Winter	Squaw Valley,	English	This was the first time that the Olympic Hymn was performed since the Athens 1896 games.
1960 Summer	Rome,	Italian
1964 Winter	Innsbruck,	German
1964 Summer	Tokyo,	Instrumental Japanese	The anthem was sung in Japanese at the closing ceremony.
1968 Winter	Grenoble,	French
1968 Summer	Mexico City,	Spanish
1972 Winter	Sapporo,	Japanese
1972 Summer	Munich,	Instrumental	An instrumental arrangement was used during the opening and closing ceremonies.
1976 Winter	Innsbruck,	Greek Instrumental	In the opening ceremony, the anthem was sung in Greek. In the closing ceremony, an instrumental arrangement was performed. In both cases, instead of the third verse, the first verse was performed once again.
1976 Summer	Montreal,	Greek	The anthem was sung in Greek.
1980 Winter	Lake Placid,	English
1980 Summer	Moscow,	Russian Greek	The anthem was sung in Russian at the opening ceremony then in Greek at the closing ceremony.
1984 Winter	Sarajevo,	Serbo-Croatian
1984 Summer	Los Angeles,	English
1988 Winter	Calgary,	Greek	The anthem was sung in Greek.
1988 Summer	Seoul,	Korean
1992 Winter	Albertville,	Instrumental	The instrumental version of the anthem was played.
1992 Summer	Barcelona,	Catalan, Spanish, and French Spanish and English	At the opening ceremony, Alfredo Kraus sang the anthem's first two stanzas in Catalan and the rest of the anthem in Spanish and French. At the closing ceremony, Plácido Domingo sang it in both Spanish and English lyrics.
1994 Winter	Lillehammer,	Norwegian	Sung at both the opening and closing ceremonies by Sissel Kyrkjebø with the Children's chorus.
1996 Summer	Atlanta,	English	Performed at the Opening Ceremony by the 300 voices of the Centennial Olympic Choir with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and at the Closing Ceremony by Jennifer Larmore and the Morehouse College Glee Club with the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra.
1998 Winter	Nagano,	Japanese	Performed by the Nagano Festival Orchestra and sung by the Nagano City Children's Chorus Group in Japanese.
2000 Summer	Sydney,	Greek English	These were the first Olympics until 2018 Winter Olympics in which the anthem was conducted in both languages preferred by the IOC. At the opening ceremony, performed in Greek by the Millennium Choir of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in recognition of the substantial Greek population of Australia. At closing ceremony, performed in English by Australian soprano Yvonne Kenny.
2002 Winter	Salt Lake City,	English	Sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Opening Ceremony and by Laura Garff-Lewis at the Closing Ceremony.
2004 Summer	Athens,	Greek	In Greek; sung to the arrangement of John Psathas.
2006 Winter	Turin,	Instrumental	At these Olympics, an abbreviated version was performed at both the opening and closing ceremonies.
2008 Summer	Beijing,	Greek	The anthem was sung in Greek at both the opening ceremony and closing ceremony.
2010 Winter	Vancouver,	English and French	This was the only Olympics that the anthem was performed in both of the official languages of the Olympics. This was done to reflect the official bilingualism in Canada. Measha Brueggergosman at the opening ceremony and Ben Heppner at the closing ceremony sang the first two, the fourth, and sixth stanzas in English and the remainder in French.
2010 Youth		Greek	The anthem was sung in Greek.
2012 Youth	Innsbruck,	Instrumental	The instrumental version of the anthem was played at both opening and closing ceremonies.
2012 Summer	London,	Instrumental English	Instrumental version played in the opening ceremony by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Sung in English at the closing ceremony by the London Welsh Male Voice Choir and the London Welsh Rugby Club choir with short lyrics.
2014 Winter	Sochi, Russian Federation	Russian Instrumental	Sung in Russian in the same translation as in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. It performed by Anna Netrebko with the Sretensky Monastery Male Choir at the opening ceremony. The Instrumental version which also played at the London 2012 Opening Ceremony by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band was used at the closing ceremony.
2014 Youth	Nanjing,	Instrumental	The Instrumental version played at the London 2012 Opening Ceremony by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band was used at both the opening and closing ceremonies.
2016 Youth	Lillehammer,	Norwegian	A choral version was sung in Norwegian at both opening and closing ceremonies using the same lyrics from the 1994 Winter Olympics
2016 Summer	Rio de Janeiro,	English	The anthem was sung in English at both opening ceremony and closing ceremony by the More Project Youth Choir from Niterói, a city from Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area.
2018 Winter	Pyeongchang,	Greek English	The first Olympics since 2000 Summer Olympics, in Sydney, Australia, and the only Winter Olympics so far in which the anthem was performed in both of the languages preferred by the IOC. It was performed in Greek by Sumi Hwang at the opening ceremony and in English by 11-year-old Oh Yeon-joon at the closing ceremony.
2018 Youth	Buenos Aires,	English	Performed by Luna Sujatovich at the Opening Ceremony and by Melina Moguilevsky at the Closing Ceremony.
2020 Youth	Lausanne,	English and French Instrumental	A bilingual version of the anthem was sung in the opening ceremony by the children's choir "Les Petits Chanteurs de Lausanne"
2020 Summer	Tokyo,
2022 Winter	Beijing,
2022 Youth	Dakar,
2024 Youth	Gangwon,
2024 Summer	Paris,
2026 Winter	Milan,
2028 Summer	Los Angeles,