List of recipients of the Paralympic Order
The following is a list of recipients of the Paralympic Order.
The Paralympic Order is the highest award of the Paralympic Movement, since 1994. The recipients get a medal with the IPC logo on it. The Paralympic Order is awarded to individuals for particularly distinguished contribution to the Paralympic Movement.[1][2]
Before 2003, the Paralympic Order was given out in three categories: Gold, Silver and Bronze.[3][4]
Recipients[edit]
1990s[edit]
| Year | Name | Title | NPC | Lvl. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Gerhard Heiberg | President of the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympic Games Organizing Committee and (LOCOG) Lillehammer 1994 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (LPOC) | Norway | |
| John Magdal | Managing director of LPOC | Norway | ||
| Lill-Unni Østern | Office Manager of LPOC | Norway | ||
| Rolf Jenssen | Venues Consultant of LPOC | Norway | ||
| 1996 | Juan Antonio Samaranch | President of the International Olympic Committee IOC | Spain | |
| Andrew Fleming[5] | President of the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (APOC) | United States |  | |
| 1998 | Goro Yoshimura | President of the Nagano 1998 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (NAPOC) | Japan | |
| Tasuku Tsukada | Mayor of Nagano | Japan | ||
| Yoshifumi Ihara | Deputy Secretary General of NAPOC | Japan | ||
| 1999 | Joan Scruton | Past Secretary General of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF) | Great Britain |
2000s[edit]
| Year | Name | Title | NPC | Lvl. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | John Grant | President of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (SPOC) | Australia | |
| 2001 | Robert Steadward | First President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) | Canada | |
| Michael Riding | Past IPC Medical Officer | |||
| André Auberger | Past IPC Treasurer | |||
| Elisabeth Dendy | Past President of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) | Great Britain | ||
| Lina Faria | Past President of CPISRA | |||
| Enrique Sanz | Past President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) | |||
| Guillermo Cabezas | Past President of the International Sports Organization for the Disabled (ISOD) | |||
| Harry Fang | Founding Father of the Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled (FESPIC) | China | ||
| Walter Tröger | International Olympic Committee (IOC) Delegate Member for Disabled Sport | |||
| George Dunstan | Past International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Regional Representative South Pacific | Australia | ||
| Gilbert Felli | IOC Sports Director | |||
| 2002 | Bob Garff[4] | Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Salt Lake 2002 Organizing Committee (SLOC) | | |
| Mitt Romney[4] | Chief executive Officer and President of SLOC | United States | | |
| Fraser Bullock[4] | Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of SLOC | United States | | |
| Bob McCullough[4] | Past president of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF) | Australia |  | |
| Gudrun Doll-Tepper[4] | Past IPC chairperson of the science committee and president of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) | | ||
| Gertrude Krombholz[4] | Past IPC chairperson Wheelchair Dance Sport | | ||
| Hans Lindström[4] | Past IPC technical officer and regional representative Europe | | ||
| 2003 | Yasuhiro Hatsuyama | Former IPC Executive Committee member and East Asia Representative | ||
| Colin Rains | President of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) | |||
| Hector Ramirez | Past President of the Pan American Wheelchair Sport Federation, President of the Argentine Paralympic Committee (COPAR) | |||
| Donald Royer | President of the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association | |||
| Jean Stone | Technical Secretary to the IPC Sports Council, Women in Sport Committee | |||
| Carl Wang | Chairperson of the Norwegian Sports Organization for the Disabled and President of the European Paralympic Committee | Norway | ||
| Xavier Gonzalez | Paralympic Games Liaison Director and interim COO | |||
| 2004 | Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | President of the Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (ATHOC) | Greece | |
| Ioannis Spanudakis | Managing director of ATHOC | |||
| Ioanna Karyofylli | General Manager of ATHOC | |||
| Ludwig Guttmann | Pioneer of sport for persons with a disability and founder of the Paralympic Movement | Germany | ||
| Organizacion Nacional de Ciegos (ONCE) | For their involvement in the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, their support of the Paralympic Movement in Spain and their contributions to the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) | Spain | ||
| 2005 | Jack Benedick | Former athlete; World Championship and Paralympic Games Technical Delegate. Chairperson of IPC Alpine Skiing. Board of Directors of the US Ski and Snowboard Association | ||
| Birgitta Blomquist | Past representative to a variety of sport federations (Swimming Committee Chairperson 1984-1992 and Wintersport Committee Chairperson 1986–1992) | |||
| Chris Cohen | Chairperson of the IPC Athletics Executive Committee | |||
| Leen Coudenys | IPC Executive Assistant | |||
| Ian Harrison, MBE | President of the International Foundation for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) | |||
| Robert Jackson | Past director, vice-president and president of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation from 1972 until 1984 | |||
| Carol Mushett | Past IPC Technical Officer of the IPC Executive Committee | |||
| Enrique Perez | Past President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) and President of the World Blind Union | |||
| Deng Pufang | President of the National Paralympic Committee of China, the China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF) and Executive President of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee (BOCOG) | China | ||
| Albert Tricot | Founder of the Belgian Paralympic Committee | |||
| Whang Youn Dai | Vice-president of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled (KOSAD) and founder of the ‘Whang Youn Dai Prize’ | |||
| 2006 | York Chow | Member of the international task force that formed the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in 1989; former Vice President Policy and Planning on the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board until 2005 | ||
| Giuseppe Ferrari | Secretary General of the Organizing Committee for the Paralympic Winter Games of Torino 2006 (ComParTo) | |||
| Björn Hedman | Current member of the IPC Medical and Anti-Doping Committee; IPC Medical Officer and member of the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board (2001 to 2005) | |||
| Fred Jansen | Current Chairperson of the IPC Sports Council; former member of the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board (1998 to 2005). Co-opted as a member of the IPC GB in March 2006 | |||
| Tiziana Nasi | President of the Organizing Committee for the Paralympic Winter Games of Torino 2006 (ComParTo) | |||
| Juan Palau | Former President of the International Sports Organisation for the Disabled (ISOD) and IOSD Representative on the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board from (1993 to 2005) | |||
| Bob Price | Former Chairperson of the British Paralympic Association. President of the European Paralympic Committee (2001 to 2005) and former member of the IPC Executive Committee/ Governing Board (2001 to 2005) | |||
| François Terranova | Former Chairperson of the Paralympic Games Liaison Committee since 1997; former Vice President of Paralympic Games on the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board (1997 to 2005) | |||
| Cesare Vaciago | Chief executive Officer of the Organizing Committee for the XX Olympic Winter Games (TOROC) | |||
| 2007 | Silas Chiang | Former Secretary General of the Hong Kong Disabled Sports Association and involved in the organization of the FESPIC Games for over 25 years | ||
| Spyros Stavrianopoulos | First president of the Hellenic Paralympic Committee and promoter of sports for persons with a disability in Greece. | |||
| 2008 | Liu Qi | Former mayor of Beijing,resident of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee (BOCOG), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the CPC Beijing Committee | ||
| Hui Liangyu | Vice Premier of the State Council, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee | |||
| Liu Yandong | Vice-president of BOCOG, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor | |||
| Chen Zhili | Vice-president of BOCOG, Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | |||
| Deng Pufang | President of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF), Executive President of BOCOG, Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) | |||
| Liu Peng | Executive President of BOCOG, Minister of the General Administration of Sport of China, President of the Chinese Olympic Committee | |||
| Guo Jinlong | Mayor of Beijing, Executive President of BOCOG | China | ||
| Tang Xiaoquan | President of the Executive Board and Vice President of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, Executive Vice President of BOCOG | |||
| Zhao Wenshi | Deputy of Paralympic Games Command Center, Vice Chairperson of CPPCC Beijing Committee | |||
| Manolo Romero | Managing director of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) | |||
| Anne Ebbs | Former Secretary General of the Paralympic Council of Ireland (PCI) | |||
| 2009 | Valeriy Sushkevych | President of the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine | ||
| Maura Strange | Executive Director and Secretary General of the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) | |||
| Pol Wautermartens | Former Chairperson of the IPC Powerlifting Sport Technical Committee | |||
| Tony Sainsbury | Former Vice-President of IWBF Europe and five-time Chef de Mission of the British Team for the Paralympics | |||
| Jerry Johnston | Founder of the Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing (CADS) | |||
| Jens Bromann | Former President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) | |||
| Bob Fisher[6] | Former Chairperson of the Football 7-a-Side Committee of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) | |||
2010s[edit]
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| Year | Name | Title | NPC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | John Furlong | CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Organizing Committee (VANOC) | |
| Dena Coward | VANOC Paralympic Games Director | ||
| Jack Poole | VANOC Chairman of the Board of Directors (posthumous award) | ||
| Rusty Goepel | VANOC Chairman of the Board of Directors | ||
| 2011[7] | Matthias Berg | Seven-time Paralympian. Member of the National Paralympic Committee of Germany (2011). | |
| Luca Pancalli | President of the National Paralympic Committee of Italy (2011). Eight-time Paralympian. Commissioner of the Italian Football Federation (2011). | ||
| Nabil Salem | Former president of the National Paralympic Committee of Egypt; former president of the African Paralympic Committee; former vice president of the International Paralympic Committee. | ||
| Randy Snow | Three-time Paralympian and first Paralympian to be inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame (2004).[8] | ||
| 2012 | Sebastian Coe | Chair of London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) | |
| Paul Deighton | CEO of LOCOG | ||
| Chris Holmes | Director of Paralmypic Integration of LOCOG | ||
| Boris Johnson | Mayor of London during the 2012 Summer Paralympics. | ||
| Keith Mills | Deputy chair of LOCOG | ||
| 2013 | Bob Balk | Former Chairman of the IPC Athletes’ Council | [9] |
| Michael Barredo[9] | Former president of International Blind Sports Federation | Philippines | |
| Duncan Campbell | Wheelchair rugby inventor | [9] | |
| Jonquil Solt | Former chairwoman of the Equestrian Committee of the International Paralympic Committee | [9] | |
| 2014 | Dmitry Chernyshenko | President of Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee (SOOC) | |
| Alexander Gorovoy | Deputy Chief of Interagency Security for the 2014 Winter Olympics | ||
| Dmitry Kozak | Deputy Prime Minister of Russia | ||
| Vladimir Lukin | President of Russia Paralympic Committee | ||
| Anatoly Pakhomov | Mayor of Sochi | ||
| Oleg Syromolotov | Chief of Interagency Security for the 2014 Winter Olympics | ||
| Alexander Tkachov | Governor of Krasnodar Krai | ||
| 2015 | Dr. Axel Bolsinger | Ophthalmologist for the National Paralympic Committee Germany | [10] |
| Georgios Fountoulakis | President of Hellenic Paralympic Committee | [10] | |
| Sylvana Mestre | Former chairwoman of the alpine skiing IPC committee | [10] | |
| 2016 | The citizens of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil | For "outstanding support" of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[11][12] | Brazil |
| The people of the Rio de Janeiro government | |||
| The volunteers and staff of the 2016 Summer Olympics | |||
| 2017 | Ann Cody | United States | |
| Sir Philip Craven | United Kingdom | ||
| Paul DePace | United States | ||
| Gerard Masson | France | ||
| Karl Vilhelm Nielsen | Denmark | ||
| Jacques Rogge | Belgium | ||
| Miguel Sagarra | Spain | ||
| 2018 | Patrick Jarvis | Canada | |
| Lee Hee-beom | South Korea | ||
| Choi Moon-soon | South Korea | ||
| Yeo Hyungkoo | South Korea | ||
| Kim Jooho | South Korea | ||
| Kim Jaeyoul | South Korea | ||
| Kim Kihong | South Korea | ||
| 2019 | Jose Luis Campo | ||
| Greg Hartung[13] | Australia | ||
| Alan Dickson | |||
| Rudi van den Abbeele | |||
| Bassam Qasrawi | |||
| Mahmoud Khosravi Vafa | |||
| Georg Schlachtenberger |
2020s[edit]
| Year | Name | Title | NPC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Seiko Hashimoto | President of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee (TOCOG) | Japan |
| Toshirō Mutō | Secretary-General of TOCOG | ||
| Tamayo Marukawa | Minister of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games | ||
| Yuriko Koike | Governor of Tokyo | ||
| Mitsunori Torihara | Chairman of Japan Paralympic Committee (JPC) | ||
| Tarō Asō | Former Vice PM and Former PM of Japan | ||
| Yoshirō Mori | Former CEO of TOCOG | ||
| Yoshihide Suga | PM of Japan |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ The Paralympian - Issue 1/2010 Archived 2010-06-19 at the Wayback Machine, The Paralympian page 14, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
- ^ Paralympic Order, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
- ^ China's Deng Pufang wins IPC top award, Official Website of the Chinese Olympic Committee, November 21, 2005
- ^ a b c d e f g h Paralympic Family Members Decorated with Medals Archived 2010-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, The Paralympian No. 2 / 2002
- ^ 1996 ATLANTA PARALYMPIC GAMES - Final look: Record-breaking international competition, The Atlanta Journal, August 26, 1996
- ^ "Paralympic Awards Winners Honoured in Kuala Lumpur". International Paralympic Committee. 21 November 2009.
- ^ "IPC Honours Good and Great at Paralympic Awards Gala in Beijing". International Paralympic Committee. 10 December 2011.
- ^ "U.S. Paralympics - Features, Events, Results - Team USA". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d Butler, Nick (23 November 2013). "Vergeer and Weir gain top honours at IPC Sport Awards". Inside the Games.
- ^ a b c "Paralympic Award winners announced". International Paralympic Committee. 14 November 2015.
- ^ "Rio Paralympics 2016: Closing ceremony tribute for Bahman Golbarnezhad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ "Obrigado Brazil! People to receive highest honour". IPC. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ "Hartung awarded top Paralympic honour". Paralympics Australia. Retrieved 15 October 2019.