Olympic Order


The Olympic Order is the highest award of the Olympic Movement and is awarded for particularly distinguished contributions to the Olympic Movement, i.e. recognition of efforts worthy of merit in the cause of sport. It was established in May 1975 by the International Olympic Committee as a successor to the Olympic Certificate. The Olympic Order originally had three grades. In 1984, at the 87th IOC Session in Sarajevo, 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. Traditionally, the IOC bestows the Olympic Order upon the chief national organiser at the closing ceremony of each respective Olympic Games.
The insignia of the Olympic Order is in the form of a collar, 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. A lapel badge, in the form of the five rings in Gold, Silver and Bronze according to grade, is presented to recipients to wear as appropriate.
Nadia Comăneci is the only athlete to be awarded the Olympic Order twice. She is also the youngest recipient of Olympic Order since 1984 when she was only 23 years old at the time of award.

Recipients

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

Gold Olympic Order

Silver Olympic Order

Bronze Olympic Order

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
1988Arne B. Mollén
1988Mustapha Larfaoui
1988Aladár Gerevich
1989Larisa Latynina
1990Lee Kun-hee
1990Jonathan Janson
1990Rudolf Kárpáti
1990Reizo Koike
1990Naoto Tajima
1990Lamine Diack
1990Asnoldo Devonish
1991Ioan Kunst-Ghermănescu
1992Hassan Agabani
1992José Azcona
1992Jorge Herrera Barona
1992Dr. Mario Carvalho Pini
1992Itzhak Caspi
1992Vahit Colakoglu
1992Dr. Evie Dennis
1992Deszo Gyarmati
1992Kurt HellerAwarded posthumously
1992Raul Ibarra Zapata
1992Viacheslav I. Koloskov
1992Gaoussou Kone
1992Carlos Pardo
1992Mario Pescante
1992Baaron Pittenger
1992Eduardo Airaldi Rivarola
1992Carlos Salinas de Gortari
1992Gottfried Schoedl
1992Gursewak Singh
1992Prof. Nikos Yalouris
1992Mrs. Caizhen Zhang
1993Jacques Blanc
1993Anna Sinilkina
1993Ted Stevens
1993Jordi Pujol
1993Dražen PetrovićPosthumously awarded
1994Vladimir Krivcov
1995Miguel Indurain
1996Christian Erb
1996Vladimir Maksimov
1997Chris de Broglio
1997Hendrika Mastenbroek
1997Roy Jones Jr.
1998Frédy Girardet
1998Chung Ju-yung
1998Wolf-Dieter Montag
1998Erica Terpstra
1998Artūras Poviliūnas
1999Alexander Tikhonov
1999Steffi Graf
1999Antonio Spallino
1999Bertrand Piccard
1999Brian Jones
2000Res Brügger
2000Alberto Tomba
2000David Coleman
2000Alida van den Bos
2001Albert Scharf
2001Raymond Hahn
2001Enrique Sanz
2001Richard Bunn
2001Arvydas Sabonis
2001René Burkhalter
2001Arnold Green
2001Félix Savón
2001Eric Walter
2001Myriam Bédard
2001David Douillet
2001Krisztina Egerszegi
2001Cathy Freeman
2001Kazuyoshi Funaki
2001Aleksandr Karelin
2001Marco Marin
2001Haile Gebrselassie
2001Naim Süleymanoğlu
2001Pirmin Zurbriggen
2002Erwin Lanc
2002Peter BlakePosthumously awarded
2002Shirley Strickland
2002Janis Grinbergas
2002Wayne Gretzky
2002Miroslav Šubrt
2002Walter Bush
2002Shoichi Tomita
2002Flor Isava-Fonseca
2002Ashwini Kumar
2002David Wallechinsky
2003John Williams
2003Adolf Ogi
2003Jean Durry
2004Matthias Kleinert
2004Francoise Zweifel
2004Nadia Comăneci
2004George BolosSilver
2005Shirley Babashoff
2006Hans Wilhelm Gäb
2009Thor Nilsen
2012Eiichi Kawatei
2012David Stern
2016Ottavio Cinquanta
2016Patrick Chamunda
UnknownDawn FraserSilver
UnknownWilliam Berge PhillipsSilver
UnknownJulius PatchingSilver
UnknownHerb ElliottSilver
UnknownJohn DevittSilver
UnknownStepan KerkyasharianSilver
UnknownDavid RichmondGold
UnknownSandy HollwaySilver
UnknownJim SlomanSilver
UnknownMichael EyersSilver
UnknownBob LeeceSilver
UnknownMick O'BrienSilver
UnknownRobert ElphinstonSilver
UnknownMargaret McLennanSilver
UnknownJohn FitzgeraldSilver
UnknownShirley StricklandSilver
UnknownDi HenrySilver
UnknownJohn HowardGold
UnknownKerry StokesSilver
UnknownPhillip Walter ColesSilver
UnknownKevan GosperSilver
UnknownHelen BrownleeSilver
UnknownAlexander Tikhonov / ?
UnknownAlexander Karelin / ?
UnknownDoug ArnotSilverServices to London 2012
UnknownJames BulleySilver
UnknownRichard GeorgeSilver
UnknownDebbie JevansSilver
UnknownIan JohnstonSilver
UnknownGerry PennellSilver
UnknownJean TomlinSilver
UnknownDavid ColemanSilver ??
UnknownMike LoyndSilverServices to London 2012
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