List of recipients of the Olympic Order
The following is a list of recipients of the Olympic Order.
- 1976: Paul Anspach (Bronze), Jesse Owens, Antonio dos Reis Carneiro (Bronze)[1]
- 1979: Marcel Leclef (Bronze)[2]
- 1980: Almicare Rotta[2]
- 1981: Herbert Kunze
- 1982: John Paul II (Gold),[3] Károly Kárpáti
- 1983: Ulrich Wehling, Galina Kulakova, Manfred Ewald, Aleksandr Medved, Esther Roth-Shahamorov,[4] Indira Gandhi,[5] Branko Mikulić (Gold), Nadia Comăneci[6]
- 1984: Peter Ueberroth, Giancarlo Brusati, Milan Ercegan, Primo Nebiolo, Günther Sabetzki, Horst Dassler, Helene Ahrweiler[7]
- 1985: Anton Sailer, Erich Honecker, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Günther Sabetzki, Toni Sailer, Hanji Aoki, Borislav Stanković (second in 2005), King Juan Carlos I of Spain[8]
- 1987: Leon Štukelj, King Rama IX of Thailand (Gold), Kenan Evren (Gold), John Brown, Alberto Juantorena, Jean-Claude Killy, Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak, Rudolf Hellmann[9]
- 1988: Manfred von Brauchitsch, Katarina Witt, Frank King (Gold), Ralph Klein, Reiner Klimke, Jerzy Kukuczka, Prince Rainier III of Monaco (Gold), Antonio Mariscal, Josef Neckermann, Jasdev Singh, Taieb Houichi, Ante Lambasa, Wolf Lyberg, Frederick Ruegsegger,[10] Aladár Gerevich, Mustapha Larfaoui, Arne B. Mollén[11]
- 1989: Larisa Latynina
- 1990: Giulio Andreotti (Gold), Lee Kun-hee, Jonathan Janson, Rudolf Kárpáti, Reizo Koike, Naoto Tajima, Ivan Patzaichin, Lamine Diack, Arnoldo Devonish[12]
- 1993: Willi Daume, Jacques Blanc, Anna Sinilkina, Ted Stevens,[13] Jordi Pujol i Soley, Dražen Petrović (posthumously awarded),[14] Boris Yeltsin (Gold)[15]
- 1994: Gerhard Heiberg, Richard von Weizsäcker (Nr. 43), Nelson Mandela[16]
- 1997: Hendrika Mastenbroek
- 1996: Billy Payne
- 1998: Frédy Girardet, Chung Ju-yung, Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg[17]
- 1999: Alexander Tikhonov, Steffi Graf,[18] Antonio Spallino,[19] Bertrand Piccard, Brian Jones[20]
- 2000: Res Brügger, Alberto Tomba,[21] David Coleman, Adolf Ogi (Gold),[22] John Coates (Gold),[23] Alida van den Bos[24]
- 2001: See list below
- 2002: Mitt Romney, Peter Blake (Posthumously awarded), Shirley de la Hunty (Strickland),[25] Wayne Gretzky, Miroslav Subrt, Walter Bush Jr., Shoichi Tomita,[26] Flor Isava-Fonseca, Ashwini Kumar,[27] David Wallechinsky[28]
- 2003: John Williams,[29] Adolf Ogi,[30] Jean Durry[31]
- 2004: Matthias Kleinert, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Francoise Zweifel,[32] Johannes Rau (Gold),[33] Nadia Comăneci[34]
- 2006: Hans Wilhelm Gäb, Valentino Castellani
- 2008: Liu Qi (Gold), He Zhenliang, Liu Jingmin, Deng Pufang, Chen Zhili[35]
- 2009: Thor Nilsen[36]
- 2010: S R Nathan (Gold),[37] Lee Hsien Loong (Gold),[38] Jack Poole (Gold; posthumously awarded), John Furlong (Gold),[39] Ng Eng Hen, Teo Chee Hean, Vivian Balakrishnan[40]
- 2011: Fernando Lima Bello, Kip Keino[41]
- Year unknown: Manfred Germar, Klaus Kotter.
2001
- Albert Scharf (at the IOC headquarters, Lausanne, January 8, 2001)[42]
- Enrique Sanz (at the IOC headquarters, Lausanne, June 8, 2001)[43]
Sports executives, at the 12th IOC Session, Moscow, July 12, 2001:[44]
Athletes, at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, July 21, 2001:[45]
- Myriam Bédard (biathlon), Canada
- David Douillet (judo), France
- Kristina Egerszegi (swimming), Hungary
- Cathy Freeman (athletics), Australia
- Kazuyoshi Funaki (ski jumping), Japan
- Haile Gebre Selassie (athletics), Ethiopia
- Alexander Karelin (wrestling), Russia
- Marco Marin (fencing), Italy
- Naim Süleymanoğlu (weightlifting), Turkey
- Pirmin Zurbriggen (alpine skiing), Switzerland
Former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch also received Olympic order in Gold, at the 112th IOC Session which held in Moscow.
Australian recipients
From the Australian Olympic Committee website: [46] ("AO" means Officer of the Order of Australia, MBE means Member of the Order of the British Empire, and so on)
- John Brown AO
- Dawn Fraser AO MBE
- Sydney Grange AO OBE MVO (Deceased)
- William Berge Phillips OBE (Deceased)
- Julius Patching AO OBE
- Betty Cuthbert AM MBE
- Herb Elliott MBE
- Shane Gould MBE
- Geoffrey Henke AO
- John Devitt AM
- Brian Tobin AM
- Stephan Kerkyasharian AM
- Prof. Lowitja O'Donoghue CBE AO
- John D. Coates AC (Gold)
- The Hon.Michael Knight AO (Gold)
- David Richmond AO (Gold)
- Sandy Hollway AO
- Jim Sloman OAM
- Michael Eyers AM
- Bob Leece AM
- Mick O'Brien AM
- Robert Elphinston OAM
- Margaret McLennan
- Norman May OAM
- John Fitzgerald AM
- Shirley de la Hunty (Strickland) AO MBE (Deceased)
- Di Henry OAM
- Harry Gordon CMG AM
- Cathy Freeman OAM
- Peter Montgomery OAM
- The Rt. Hon John Howard MP (Gold)
Indian recipients
- Mool Chand Chowhan[47]
- Jasdev Singh [48][49]
Singaporean recipients
- S R Nathan (Gold)
- Lee Hsien Loong (Gold)
- Teo Chee Hean (Silver)
- Vivian Balakrishnan (Silver)
- Ng Eng Hen (Silver)
- Tan Eng Liang (Silver)
- Chris Chan (Silver)
- Goh Kee Nguan (Silver)
- Francis Chong (Silver)
- Eric Tan Huck Gim (Silver)[50]
See also
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