# Olympic Order

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

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 Some no longer have their orders, as they have been withdrawn.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

| Year | Recipient | Country | Note |
| 1975 | Avery Brundage | United States | |
| 1980 | Lord Killanin | Ireland | |
| 1981 | Lord Exeter | United Kingdom | |
| 1981 | Pope John Paul II | Vatican City | |
| 1981 | Dr. Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow | Senegal | |
| 1981 | King Olav V | Norway | |
| 1982 | Ahmad Shah of Pahang | Malaysia | |
| 1983 | Indira Gandhi | India | |
| 1984 | Branko Mikulić | Yugoslavia | |
| 1984 | François Mitterrand | France | |
| 1984 | Peter Ueberroth | United States | |
| 1985 | Nicolae Ceauşescu | Romania | |
| 1985 | Erich Honecker | East Germany | |
| 1985 | King Juan Carlos I | Spain | |
| 1986 | Wan Li | China | |
| 1987 | King Bhumibol Adulyadej | Thailand | |
| 1987 | General Kenan Evren | Turkey | |
| 1987 | Todor Zhivkov | Bulgaria | |
| 1988 | Prince Rainier III | Monaco | |
| 1988 | Prince Bertil Bernadotte | Sweden | |
| 1988 | Frank Edward King | Canada | |
| 1988 | Mario Vázquez Raña | Mexico | |
| 1988 | Park Seh-jik | South Korea | |
| 1989 | Raoul Mollet | Belgium | |
| 1989 | Emperor Akihito | Japan | |
| 1989 | Rafael Hernández Colón | Puerto Rico | |
| 1990 | Giulio Andreotti | Italy | |
| 1991 | Jean de Beaumont | France | |
| 1991 | Yoshiaki Tsutsumi | Japan | |
| 1991 | Willi Daume | West Germany | |
| 1992 | Pasqual Maragall | Spain | |
| 1992 | Carlos Arthur Nuzman | Brazil | |
| 1992 | Michel Barnier | France | |
| 1992 | Javier Gómez-Navarro | Spain | |
| 1992 | José Miguel Abad | Spain | |
| 1992 | Jean-Claude Killy | France | |
| 1992 | Jordi Pujol | Spain | |
| 1992 | Leopoldo Rodés | Spain | |
| 1992 | Carlos Salinas de Gotari | Mexico | |
| 1992 | Narcís Serra | Spain | |
| 1992 | Javier Solana | Spain | |
| 1993 | Boris Yeltsin | Russia | |
| 1994 | Gerhard Heiberg | Norway | |
| 1994 | Richard von Weizsäcker | Germany | |
| 1994 | Nelson Mandela | South Africa | |
| 1994 | Joaquín Leguina | Spain | |
| 1994 | Dr. Mauno Koivisto | Finland | |
| 1994 | King Harald V of Norway | Norway | |
| 1994 | Queen Sonja of Norway | Norway | |
| 1995 | Árpád Göncz | Hungary | |
| 1995 | Robert Mugabe | Zimbabwe | |
| 1996 | Billy Payne | United States | |
| 1996 | Konstantinos Stephanopoulos | Greece | |
| 1996 | Adolphus Drewery | United States | |
| 1996 | Andrew Young | United States | |
| 1996 | Islam Karimov | Uzbekistan | |
| 1997 | Blaise Compaore | Burkina Faso | |
| 1997 | Omar Bongo | Gabon | |
| 1997 | Nursultan Nazarbaev | Kazakhstan | |
| 1997 | Elias Hrawi | Lebanon | |
| 1997 | Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Léon | Mexico | |
| 1997 | Aleksander Kwaśniewski | Poland | |
| 1997 | Suleyman Demirel | Turkey | |
| 1998 | Kim Dae-jung | South Korea | |
| 1998 | Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | Luxembourg | |
| 1998 | Eishiro Saito | Japan | |
| 1999 | Eduard Shevardnadze | Georgia | |
| 2000 | Adolf Ogi | Switzerland | |
| 2000 | Lowitja O'Donoghue | Australia | |
| 2000 | John Coates | Australia | |
| 2001 | Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said | Oman | |
| 2001 | Goh Chok Tong | Singapore | |
| 2001 | Vladimir Putin | Russia | Withdrawn on 28 February 2022 |
| 2001 | Juan Antonio Samaranch | Spain | |
| 2001 | Abdoulaye Wade | Senegal | |
| 2002 | Fraser Bullock | United States | |
| 2002 | Jacques Chirac | France | |
| 2002 | Kéba Mbaye | Senegal | |
| 2002 | Mitt Romney | United States | |
| 2003 | Emile Lahoud | Lebanon | |
| 2003 | John Howard | Australia | |
| 2004 | Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | Greece | |
| 2004 | Costas Karamanlis | Greece | |
| 2004 | Abdelaziz Bouteflika | Algeria | |
| 2004 | Johannes Rau | Germany | |
| 2004 | Martinos Simitsek | Greece | |
| 2005 | Theodore Angelopoulos | Greece | |
| 2006 | Valentino Castellani | Italy | |
| 2007 | Kofi Annan | Ghana | |
| 2008 | Liu Qi | China | |
| 2009 | Jack Poole | Canada | Posthumously awarded |
| 2010 | S. R. Nathan | Singapore | |
| 2010 | Lee Hsien Loong | Singapore | |
| 2010 | John Furlong | Canada | |
| 2012 | Lord Coe | United Kingdom | |
| 2012 | Lord Deighton | United Kingdom | |
| 2013 | King Willem-Alexander | Netherlands | |
| 2013 | Count Jacques Rogge | Belgium | |
| 2013 | King Felipe VI | Spain | |
| 2013 | Pope Francis | Vatican City | |
| 2013 | Xi Jinping | China | |
| 2014 | Dmitry Chernyshenko | Russia | Withdrawn on 28 February 2022 |
| 2014 | Dmitry Kozak | Russia | Withdrawn on 28 February 2022 |
| 2015 | Margareta of Romania | Romania | |
| 2016 | Carlos Arthur Nuzman | Brazil | |
| 2018 | Lee Hee-beom | South Korea | |
| 2018 | Fernando Botero | Colombia | |
| 2018 | Moon Jae-in | South Korea | |
| 2018 | Mauricio Macri | Argentina | |
| 2020 | Prokopis Pavlopoulos | Greece | |
| 2020 | Shinzo Abe | Japan | |
| 2021 | Seiko Hashimoto | Japan | |
| 2021 | Yoshihide Suga | Japan | |
| 2021 | Yuriko Koike | Japan | |
| 2022 | Sun Chunlan | China | |
| 2022 | Cai Qi | China | |
| 2022 | Andrzej Duda | Poland | |
| 2024 | Tony Estanguet | France | |
| 2024 | Emmanuel Macron | France | |

### Silver Olympic Order

| Year | Recipient | Country | Note |
| 1975 | Mr. Ryotaro Azuma | Japan | |
| 1975 | Mr. Miguel de Capriles | United States | |
| 1975 | Lieutenant-Colonel Rudyard Russell | United Kingdom | |
| 1976 | Mr. Paul Anspach | Belgium | |
| 1976 | Mr. Harold Austad | New Zealand | |
| 1976 | Mr. Albert Demaurex | Switzerland | |
| 1976 | Mr. Dan Ferris | United States | |
| 1976 | Mr. Jesse Owens | United States | |
| 1976 | Mr. Héctor Paysse Reyes | Uruguay | |
| 1976 | Mr. Walter Wülfing | West Germany | |
| 1977 | Colonel Sir Michael Ansell | United Kingdom | |
| 1977 | Mrs. Inger Frith | Denmark/ United Kingdom | |
| 1977 | Mr. Sven Låftman | Sweden | |
| 1977 | Mr. Anselmo López | Spain | |
| 1977 | Dr. Rudolf Nemetschke | Austria | |
| 1977 | Mr. Seiji Tabata | Japan | |
| 1978 | Prince Bertil Bernadotte | Sweden | |
| 1978 | Bâtonnier René Bondoux | France | |
| 1978 | Colonel Domingos de Sousa | Portugal | |
| 1978 | Mr. Falih Fahmi | Iraq | |
| 1978 | Mr. John Emrys Lloyd | United Kingdom | |
| 1978 | Mr. Adriano Rodoni | Italy | |
| 1978 | Mr. Mario Vázquez Raña | Mexico | |
| 1979 | Dr. Haj Omar Boucetta | Morocco | |
| 1979 | General Gustaf Dyrssen | Sweden | |
| 1979 | Mr. Mikio Oda | Japan | |
| 1979 | Er. Harold Madison Wright | Canada | |
| 1980 | Professor Arnold H. Beckett | United Kingdom | |
| 1980 | Er. Pablo Cagnasso | Argentina | |
| 1980 | Mr. Franco Carraro | Italy | |
| 1980 | Mr. Benito Castejón | Spain | |
| 1980 | Mr. Claude Collard | France | |
| 1980 | Professor Albert Dirix | Belgium | |
| 1980 | Sir Denis Follows | United Kingdom | |
| 1980 | Mr. Sydney Grange | Australia | |
| 1980 | Mr. Kurt Hasler | Switzerland | |
| 1980 | Mr. Frederick Holder | United Kingdom | |
| 1980 | Lord Howell | United Kingdom | |
| 1980 | Colonel Raoul Mollet | Belgium | |
| 1980 | Mr. Renato William Jones | United Kingdom | |
| 1980 | Mr. Ignati Novikov | Soviet Union | |
| 1980 | Mr. Charles Palmer | United Kingdom | |
| 1980 | Mr. Henri Pouret | France | |
| 1980 | Mr. Amilcare Rotta | Italy | |
| 1980 | Mr. Anton Skataretiko | Yugoslavia | |
| 1980 | Mr. Bertil Sallfors | Sweden | |
| 1980 | Mr. Yoshiyuki Tsuruta | Japan | |
| 1981 | Mr. Gérard d'Aboville | France | |
| 1981 | Mr. Roone Arledge | United States | |
| 1981 | Mr. Jacinto Balleste | Spain | |
| 1981 | Mr. Rafael Barquero Chaves | Costa Rica | |
| 1981 | Mr. Árpád Bogsch | United States | |
| 1981 | Mr. Charles de Coquereaumont | France | |
| 1981 | Mr. David Coward | United Kingdom | |
| 1981 | Dr. Max Danz | West Germany | |
| 1981 | Mr. Jean-Pascal Delamuraz | Switzerland | |
| 1981 | Mr. Henry Joseph Dieme | Senegal | |
| 1981 | Mr. Bo Ekelund | Sweden | |
| 1981 | Mr. Pierre Ferri | France | |
| 1981 | Mr. Jacques Goddet | France | |
| 1981 | Mr. Gísli Halldórsson | Iceland | |
| 1981 | Dr. Harold W. Henning | United States | |
| 1981 | Mrs. Hideko Hyodo | Japan | |
| 1981 | Mr. Enrikas Juskhevitsus | Soviet Union | |
| 1981 | Mr. Kurt Møller | Denmark | |
| 1981 | Ms. Elena Mukhina | Soviet Union | |
| 1981 | Mr. Desmond O'Sullivan | Ireland | |
| 1981 | Mr. Adriaan Paulen | Netherlands | |
| 1981 | Mr. Adriano Rodoni | Italy | |
| 1981 | Mr. Abdel Moneim Wahby | Egypt | |
| 1982 | Prince Franz Joseph II | Liechtenstein | |
| 1982 | Mr. František Kroutil | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1982 | Mr. Paavo Mikko Honkajuuri | Finland | |
| 1982 | Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda | Japan | |
| 1982 | Mr. José Beracasa | Venezuela | |
| 1982 | Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX | Indonesia | |
| 1982 | General Sven Thofelt | Sweden | |
| 1982 | Mr. Avinash Chandra Chatterji | India | |
| 1982 | Mr. José Ramón Fernández | Cuba | |
| 1982 | Mr. Haim Glowinsky | Israel | |
| 1982 | Mr. Ichiro Hatta | Japan | |
| 1982 | Mr. Clarence H. Johnson | United States | |
| 1982 | Mr. Robert Kane | United States | |
| 1982 | Mr. Alois Lugger | Austria | |
| 1982 | Mr. Fernando Luis Pereira Machado | Portugal | |
| 1982 | Mr. Paul-Rene Martin | Switzerland | |
| 1982 | Mr. Trendafil Martinski | Bulgaria | |
| 1982 | Mr. Edgar Mercier | France | |
| 1982 | Mr. László Papp | Hungary | |
| 1982 | Mr. João Carlos de Oliveira | Brazil | |
| 1982 | Mr. Giovanni Romagna | Italy | |
| 1982 | Mr. Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales | Hong Kong | |
| 1982 | Mr. Angel Solakov | Bulgaria | |
| 1982 | Mr. Habib Thiam | Senegal | |
| 1982 | Mr. Jukka Uunila | Finland | |
| 1983 | Mr. Kouassi Angama | Ivory Coast | |
| 1983 | Mr. Georges Athanassiadis | Greece | |
| 1983 | Sir Gerald Cash | Bahamas | |
| 1983 | Dr. Arpad Csanadi | Hungary | |
| 1983 | Mrs. Betty Cuthbert | Australia | |
| 1983 | Mr. Eduardo Dibos | Peru | |
| 1983 | Mr. Laurent Dona-Fologo | Ivory Coast | |
| 1983 | Lieutenant-General Marin Dragnea | Romania | |
| 1983 | Mr. Jean Drapeau | Canada | |
| 1983 | Mrs. Ilona Elek | Hungary | |
| 1983 | Mr. Massoud Ahmded El-Zantouti | Libya | |
| 1983 | Mr. Manfred Ewald | East Germany | |
| 1983 | Mrs. Marie-Thérèse Eyquem | France | |
| 1983 | Mr. Sisto Favre | Italy | |
| 1983 | Mr. Edgar Fried | Austria | |
| 1983 | Dr. Abdel Halim Muhammad | Sudan | |
| 1983 | Mr. Kim Taik-soo | South Korea | |
| 1983 | Mrs. Galina Kulakova | Soviet Union | |
| 1983 | Mr. Leopoldo de Leon | Panama | |
| 1983 | Mr. Aleksandr Medved | Soviet Union | |
| 1983 | Mr. Roger Menard | France | |
| 1983 | Mr. Chūhei Nambu | Japan | |
| 1983 | Mr. Robert F. Osborne | Canada | |
| 1983 | Mr. Javier Ostos | Spain | |
| 1983 | Mr. Julius Lockington Patching | Australia | |
| 1983 | Mr. Berge Philips | Australia | |
| 1983 | Mr. Gaotang Rong | China | |
| 1983 | Mr. Victor Saneev | Soviet Union | |
| 1983 | Mr. Katsuji Shibata | Japan | |
| 1983 | Mr. Sergei Chalibashvili | Soviet Union | |
| 1983 | Mrs. Lidiya Skoblikova | Soviet Union | |
| 1984 | Mr. Abdelhamid Rachdi Alami | Morocco | |
| 1984 | Mr. Abílio Ferreira d'Almeida | Brazil | |
| 1984 | Mr. Luis Azemar Puig de la Bellacasa | Spain | |
| 1984 | Mr. Motohiko Ban | Japan | |
| 1984 | Mrs. Herma Bauma | Austria | |
| 1984 | Mr. Bo Bengston | Sweden | |
| 1984 | Mr. Jean Borotra | France | |
| 1984 | Mr. Paolo Cappabianca | Italy | |
| 1984 | Mr. Juan José Castillo | Spain | |
| 1984 | Mr. Harry H. Cavan | United Kingdom | |
| 1984 | Ms. Nadia Comăneci | Romania | |
| 1984 | Mr. George Craig | New Zealand | |
| 1984 | Dr. Beppe Croce | Italy | |
| 1984 | Mr. Sandy Duncan | United Kingdom | |
| 1984 | Mr. Suat Erler | Turkey | |
| 1984 | Mr. Rene Frank | Belgium | |
| 1984 | Mr. Akira Fujita | Japan | |
| 1984 | Mr. Antonin Himl | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1984 | Mr. Pierre Hirschy | Switzerland | |
| 1984 | Mr. Bert Isatitsch | Austria | |
| 1984 | Mr. Pal Kovacs | Hungary | |
| 1984 | Mr. Paul Libaud | France | |
| 1984 | Mr. Hero Lupescu | Romania | |
| 1984 | Colonel F. Don Miller | United States | |
| 1984 | Mr. Julio Enrique Monagas | Puerto Rico | |
| 1984 | Mr. Hadj Ibrahim Mbomba Njoya | Cameroon | |
| 1984 | Mr. Renzo Nostini | Italy | |
| 1984 | Mr. Fred B. Oberlander | Canada | |
| 1984 | Mr. Nelson Paillou | France | |
| 1984 | Mr. Marian Renke | Poland | |
| 1984 | Mr. Walter J.M.A. von Rosberg | Netherlands Antilles | |
| 1984 | Mr. Zhong Shitong | China | |
| 1984 | Mr. Olegário Vazquez Rafia | Mexico | |
| 1984 | Mrs. Helene Ahrweiler | France | |
| 1984 | Mr. Abdul Hameed Al-Hajji | Kuwait | |
| 1984 | Mr. Aldo Bergamaschi | Italy | |
| 1984 | Mr. Fred Blay | Liberia | |
| 1984 | Mr. Emeric Blum | Yugoslavia | |
| 1984 | Mr. Tom Bradley | United States | |
| 1984 | Mr. Gian-Carlo Brusati | Italy | |
| 1984 | Mr. Miroslav Cerar | Yugoslavia | |
| 1984 | Mr. Alain Danet | France | |
| 1984 | Mr. Horst Dassler | West Germany | |
| 1984 | Mr. Abdelaziz Elshafei | Egypt | |
| 1984 | Mr. Milan Ercegan | Yugoslavia | |
| 1984 | Mr. Shunji Fujii | Japan | |
| 1984 | Mr. Knolly Henderson | Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 1984 | Mr. Paul Högberg | Sweden | |
| 1984 | Mr. Samwel Mbogo Kamau | Kenya | |
| 1984 | Mr. Ahmed Karabegovic | Yugoslavia | |
| 1984 | Mr. Kenjiro Mizuno | Japan | |
| 1984 | Mr. Primo Nebiolo | Italy | |
| 1984 | Mr. Günther Sabetzki | West Germany | |
| 1984 | Mr. Keith Shervington | Jamaica | |
| 1984 | Mr. Baghadi Si-Mohamed | Algeria | |
| 1984 | Mr. Anto Sucic | Yugoslavia | |
| 1984 | Mr. Artur Takac | Yugoslavia | |
| 1984 | Mr. Stanko Tomic | Yugoslavia | |
| 1984 | Mr. Harry Usher | United States | |
| 1984 | Mr. Uglijesa Uzelac | Yugoslavia | |
| 1984 | Mr. Paul Ziffren | United States | |
| 1985 | Sir Adetokunbo Ademola | Nigeria | |
| 1985 | Mr. Alexa Haralambie | Romania | |
| 1985 | Sheikh Isa bin Rashed Al Kalifa | Bahrain | |
| 1985 | Mr. Hanji Aoki | Japan | |
| 1985 | Mr. Abdel Azim Ashry | Egypt | |
| 1985 | Mr. Tsegaw Ayele | Ethiopia | |
| 1985 | Mr. Edmund W. Barker | Singapore | |
| 1985 | Mr. Domenico Bruschi | San Marino | |
| 1985 | Mrs. Christine Caron | France | |
| 1985 | Mr. Bud Greenspan | United States | |
| 1985 | Mr. Józef Grudzień | Poland | |
| 1985 | Mr. Hermann Jannsen | West Germany | |
| 1985 | Mr. John B. Kelly Jr. | United States | |
| 1985 | Mr. Ferdinand Siregar Mangombar | Indonesia | |
| 1985 | Mr. Kenkichi Oshima | Japan | |
| 1985 | Lord Porritt | New Zealand | |
| 1985 | Mr. Bedřich Poula | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1985 | Mr. Ludwig Prokop | Austria | |
| 1985 | Mr. André Gustavo Richer | Brazil | |
| 1985 | Mr. Raimundo Saporta | Spain | |
| 1985 | Mr. William Simon | United States | |
| 1985 | Mr. Borislav Stanković | Yugoslavia | |
| 1985 | Mr. Josep Lluís Vilaseca | Spain | |
| 1985 | Mr. Walter Wasservogel | Austria | |
| 1985 | Mr. Jean Weymann | Switzerland | |
| 1985 | Mr. Lev Yashin | Soviet Union | |
| 1986 | Mr. Carlos Osório de Almeida | Brazil | |
| 1986 | Mr. Lachezar Avramov | Bulgaria | |
| 1986 | Mr. Mahmoud Ba | Mauritania | |
| 1986 | Mr. Bernhard Baier | West Germany | |
| 1986 | Mrs. Liselotl Diem | West Germany | |
| 1986 | Mr. Justin Durand | Benin | |
| 1986 | Mr. Issac Froimovich | Chile | |
| 1986 | Mr. Julio Gerlcin Comelin | Colombia | |
| 1986 | Mr. Carlos de Godó | Spain | |
| 1986 | Mr. Roberto C. Goizueta | United States | |
| 1986 | Mr. Boris Gueorguiev | Bulgaria | |
| 1986 | Mr. Cornelius Kerdel | Netherlands | |
| 1986 | Mr. Antoine Khoui | Lebanon | |
| 1986 | Mr. Jean-Arnould Leew | Belgium | |
| 1986 | Air Vice Marshal C. L. Metha | India | |
| 1986 | Mr. Nikolaos Nissiotis | Greece | |
| 1986 | Mr.John Akii-Bua | Uganda | |
| 1986 | Mr. Pedro Perez Duenas | Cuba | |
| 1986 | Mr. Ahmed Mohammed Qaatabi | South Yemen | |
| 1986 | Mr. Max Rinkenburger | West Germany | |
| 1986 | Mr. Douglas F. Roby | United States | |
| 1986 | Mr. Julian K. Roosevelt | United States | |
| 1986 | Mr. Roger Rousseau | Canada | |
| 1986 | Mr. Ricardo José Russomando | Argentina | |
| 1986 | Mr. Andrey Starovoytov | Soviet Union | |
| 1986 | Mr. William Thayer Tutt | United States | |
| 1986 | Mr. Tadeusz Ulatowski | Poland | |
| 1986 | Mr. Georges Vichos | Greece | |
| 1986 | Mr. George Wieczisk | East Germany | |
| 1986 | Mr. Huang Zhong | China | |
| 1987 | Mr. Francisco Ferreira Alves | Portugal | |
| 1987 | Mr. Abdel Moneim El Bah | Libya | |
| 1987 | Mr. Boris Bakrač | Yugoslavia | |
| 1987 | John Brown | Australia | |
| 1987 | Mr. Gavrila Barani | Romania | |
| 1987 | Mr. John Joseph Brown | Australia | |
| 1987 | Mr. Ramiro Tavares Gonçalves | Brazil | |
| 1987 | Mr. Rudolf Hellmann | East Germany | |
| 1987 | Mr. Chen Jingkai | China | |
| 1987 | Mr. Alberto Juantorena | Cuba | |
| 1987 | Mr. Todor Zhivkov | Bulgaria | |
| 1987 | Mr. Erich Kamper | Austria | |
| 1987 | Mr. L. N. Khurana | India | |
| 1987 | Mr. Jean-Claude Killy | France | |
| 1987 | Mr. Philip Othmar Krumm | United States | |
| 1987 | Colonel Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak | Poland | |
| 1987 | Mr. Li Menghua | China | |
| 1987 | Mr. Geoffrey de Navacelle | France | |
| 1987 | Mr. Sergio Orsi | Italy | |
| 1987 | Mr. Lassina Palenfo | Ivory Coast | |
| 1987 | Mr. Marcel Pasche | Switzerland | |
| 1987 | Mr. Janusz Przedpełski | Poland | |
| 1987 | Mr. Haluk San | Turkey | |
| 1987 | Mr. Teofilo Stevenson | Cuba | |
| 1987 | Mr. Vladimir Stoychev | Bulgaria | |
| 1987 | Mr. Leon Štukelj | Yugoslavia | |
| 1987 | Mr. Brian Wightman | Fiji | |
| 1988 | Mr. Ruben Acosta | Mexico | |
| 1988 | Mr. Constantin Andrianov | Soviet Union | |
| 1988 | Mr. Francisco Alguersuari Durán | Spain | |
| 1988 | Mrs. Eileen Anderson | United Kingdom | |
| 1988 | Mr. Juan José Castillo | Spain | |
| 1988 | Mr. Joan Creus | Spain | |
| 1988 | Mr. Reiner Klimke | West Germany | |
| 1988 | Mr. Juan de la LIcra Trcns | Spain | |
| 1988 | Mr. Bill Pratt | Canada | |
| 1988 | Mr. Fernando Riba | Spain | |
| 1988 | Mr. Anisio Silva Rocha | Brazil | |
| 1988 | Dr. Joszef Sir | Hungary | |
| 1988 | Katarina Witt | East Germany | |
| 1988 | Ralph Klein | Canada | |
| 1988 | Jerzy Kukuczka | Poland | |
| 1988 | Antonio Mariscal | Mexico | |
| 1988 | Josef Neckermann | West Germany | |
| 1988 | Jasdev Singh | India | |
| 1988 | Taieb Houichi | Tunisia | |
| 1988 | Ante Lambasa | Yugoslavia | |
| 1988 | Wolf Lyberg | Sweden | |
| 1988 | Frederick Ruegsegger | United States | |
| 1989 | Larisa Latynina | Soviet Union | |
| 1990 | Ivan Patzaichin | Romania | |
| 1992 | Ludovit Komadel | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1992 | Jesús Alfonso Elizondo Nájera | Mexico | |
| 1994 | Vladimir Krivtsov | Russia | |
| 1994 | Shane Gould | Australia | |
| 1995 | Eddy Merckx | Belgium | |
| 1995 | Miguel Indurain | Spain | |
| 1995 | Jerald M. Jordan | United States | |
| 1997 | Karl Lennartz | Germany | |
| 1997 | Oscar Schmidt | Brazil | |
| 1997 | Ian Buchanan | United Kingdom | |
| 1998 | Alexander Gomelsky | Russia | |
| 1998 | Geoffrey Henke | Australia | |
| 1998 | Makoto Kobayashi | Japan | |
| 1998 | Tasuku Tsukada | Japan | |
| 1998 | Goro Yoshimura | Japan | |
| 1999 | Brian Tobin | Australia | |
| 1999 | Prince Abdul Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah | Brunei | |
| 2000 | Prof. Lowitja O'Donoghue | Australia | |
| 2000 | Norman May | Australia | |
| 2001 | Ton Bijkerk | Netherlands | |
| 2001 | Harry Gordon | Australia | |
| 2001 | Cathy Freeman | Australia | |
| 2001 | Dr. Bill Mallon | United States | |
| 2002 | Peter Montgomery | Australia | |
| 2003 | Mool Chand Chowhan | India | |
| 2004 | Robert Kocharian | Armenia | |
| 2007 | Marjorie Jackson-Nelson | Australia | |
| 2008 | He Zhenliang | China | |
| 2008 | Liu Jingmin | China | |
| 2008 | Deng Pufang | China | |
| 2008 | Chen Zhili | China | |
| 2010 | Teo Chee Hean | Singapore | |
| 2010 | Dr. Ng Eng Hen | Singapore | |
| 2010 | Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan | Singapore | |
| 2010 | Dr. Tan Eng Liang | Singapore | |
| 2010 | Chris Chan | Singapore | |
| 2010 | Goh Kee Nguan | Singapore | |
| 2010 | Dr. Francis Chong | Singapore | |
| 2010 | Eric Tan Huck Gim | Singapore | |
| 2010 | Les McDonald | Canada | |
| 2010 | Michael A. Chambers | Canada | |
| 2010 | Nodar Kumaritashvili | Georgia | Posthumously awarded |
| 2011 | Fernando Lima Bello | Portugal | |
| 2011 | Kip Keino | Kenya | |
| 2011 | Vilnis Baltiņš | Latvia | |
| 2012 | Gary Anderson | United States | |
| 2012 | Sir Keith Mills | United Kingdom | |
| 2012 | Lord Moynihan | United Kingdom | |
| 2015 | Lord Tevita Poasi Tupou | Tonga | |
| 2015 | Irina Viner | Russia | |
| 2016 | Edson Arantes do Nascimento | Brazil | |
| 2016 | Ilse Bechthold | Germany | |
| 2016 | Julio Maglione | Uruguay | |
| 2016 | Anton Geesink | Netherlands | Posthumously awarded |
| 2016 | Reynaldo González López | Cuba | Posthumously awarded |
| 2016 | Peter Tallberg | Finland | Posthumously awarded |
| 2016 | Risto Nieminen | Finland | |
| 2016 | Vlade Divac | Serbia | |
| 2016 | Narayana Ramachandran | India | |
| 2018 | Yeo Hyung-koo | South Korea | |
| 2018 | Kim Jae-youl | South Korea | |
| 2018 | Kim Joo-ho | South Korea | |
| 2021 | Toshirō Mutō | Japan | |
| 2022 | Gou Zhongwen | China | |
| 2022 | Chen Jining | China | |
| 2022 | Wang Zhengpu | China | |
| 2022 | Zhang Jiandong | China | |
| 2022 | Han Zirong | China | |
| 2024 | Anne Hidalgo | France |
| 2024 | Valérie Pécresse | France |
| 2024 | Amélie Oudéa-Castéra | France |
| 2024 | Patrick Ollier | France |
| 2024 | Stéphane Troussel | France |
| 2024 | Michel Cadot | France |
| 2024 | Marc Guillaume | France |
| 2024 | Étienne Thobois | France |
| 2024 | Michaël Aloïsio | France |

### Bronze Olympic Order

| Year | Recipient | Country |
| 1975 | Mr. Charles Debeur | Belgium |
| 1975 | Mr. Gyula Hegyi | Hungary |
| 1975 | Mr. John Kasyoka | Kenya |
| 1975 | Mrs. Lia Manoliu | Romania |
| 1975 | Mrs. Ellen Preis | Austria |
| 1975 | Dr. Jacques Thiébault | France |
| 1976 | Mr. Helmut Behrendt | East Germany |
| 1976 | Mr. Antonio dos Reis Carneiro | Brazil |
| 1976 | Mr. Walter Jhung | South Korea |
| 1976 | Mr. Abderrahman Khatib | Morocco |
| 1976 | Mrs. Zofia Mironova | Soviet Union |
| 1976 | Mr. Kleanthis Palaiologos | Greece |
| 1976 | Mr. Haim Wein | Israel |
| 1977 | Mr. Gunnar Hansen | Denmark |
| 1977 | Mrs. Nadia Lekarska | Bulgaria |
| 1977 | Mr. Edoardo Mangiarotti | Italy |
| 1977 | Mr. Alberto Nariño Cheyne | Colombia |
| 1977 | Mr. Christian d'Oriola | France |
| 1977 | Mr. Dutta Ray | India |
| 1977 | Mr. Roberto Richards Aguiar | Cuba |
| 1977 | Mr. René de Raeve | Belgium |
| 1978 | Mr. Zafar Ali | Pakistan |
| 1978 | Prof. Dr. Mihailo Andrejević | Yugoslavia |
| 1978 | Mrs. Ludmilla Tourischeva | Soviet Union |
| 1978 | Colonel Hassine Hamouda | Tunisia |
| 1978 | Mr. Harald Jespersen | Denmark |
| 1978 | Mrs. Ingrid Keller de Schiavoni | Guatemala |
| 1978 | Mr. Surjit Singh Majithia | India |
| 1978 | Mr. Paulo Martins Meira | Brazil |
| 1978 | Mr. Al Oerter | United States |
| 1978 | Mr. Michel Ravarino | Monaco |
| 1978 | Mr. Charles Riolo | Switzerland |
| 1978 | Mr. Yoshinori Suzuki | Japan |
| 1978 | Mr. Hugo Virgilio Tedin | Argentina |
| 1978 | Mr. José Gamarra Zorrilla | Bolivia |
| 1979 | Mr. Jeronymo Baptista Bastos | Brazil |
| 1979 | Mr. Alfredo Hohagen Díez Canseco | Peru |
| 1979 | Mrs. Maria Kwaśniewska | Poland |
| 1979 | Colonel Marcel Leclef | Belgium |
| 1979 | Mr. Imre Németh | Hungary |
| 1979 | Mrs. Emmy Schwabe | Austria |
| 1979 | Mr. Otto Szymiczek | Greece |
| 1979 | Mrs. Lydia Zanchi | Switzerland |
| 1980 | Mr. Sigge Bergman | Sweden |
| 1980 | Mrs. Elisabeth Ferris | United Kingdom |
| 1980 | Mrs. Dawn Fraser | Australia |
| 1980 | Mr. Alex Erere | United Kingdom |
| 1980 | Mrs. Anita DeFrantz | United States |
| 1980 | Mr. Jean-Claude Ganga | Congo |
| 1980 | Mr. Marcello Garroni | Italy |
| 1980 | Mr. Michel Henault | France |
| 1980 | Mr. John Hennessy | United Kingdom |
| 1980 | Mr. Luis E. Hurtado | Panama |
| 1980 | Mr. Joseph Jungmann | Czechoslovakia |
| 1980 | Mr. Clare McDermott | Canada |
| 1980 | Mr. Donato Martucci | Italy |
| 1980 | Mr. Geoffrey Miller | United Kingdom |
| 1980 | Mr. Robert Pariente | France |
| 1980 | Mr. John Rodda | United Kingdom |
| 1980 | Mr. Hussein Sejean | Lebanon |
| 1980 | Mr. Walter Siegenthaler | Switzerland |
| 1980 | Mr. Mustapha Thraya | Tunisia |
| 1980 | Mr. Alexander Yermakov | Soviet Union |
| 1981 | Mr. Slaheddine Baly | Tunisia |
| 1981 | Mr. Max Bangerter | Switzerland |
| 1981 | Brigadier Henrique Alves Callado | Portugal |
| 1981 | Mr. Gregor Hradetzky | Austria |
| 1981 | Mr. Károly Kárpáti | Hungary |
| 1981 | Dr. J. Raymond Owen | United Kingdom |
| 1981 | Mrs. Irina Rodnina | Soviet Union |
| 1981 | Mr. Kenneth A. Ryan | Ireland |
| 1981 | Mrs. Irena Szewińska | Poland |
| 1981 | Mr. Eduardo Yáñez Zavala | Chile |
| 1982 | Mr. Waldemar Baszanowski | Poland |
| 1982 | Mr. Jaime Munoz Camposano | Ecuador |
| 1982 | Mr. João da Costa | Brazil |
| 1982 | Mr. Paul Elvstrøm | Denmark |
| 1982 | Mr. Sinan Erdem | Turkey |
| 1982 | Mr. Giuseppe Sabelli Fioretti | Italy |
| 1982 | Mr. Gert Fredriksson | Sweden |
| 1982 | Mr. Arild Honne | Norway |
| 1982 | Mr. Sixten Jernberg | Sweden |
| 1982 | Mr. Leonid Khomenkov | Soviet Union |
| 1982 | Mr. Guillermo Montoya Sanchez | Mexico |
| 1982 | Dr. Ridha Mrad | Tunisia |
| 1982 | Mr. Luis Chiriboga Parra | Ecuador |
| 1982 | Mr. E. Howard Radford | Canada |
| 1982 | Mr. Albert Riethausen | West Germany |
| 1982 | Mr. Donald Rowlands | New Zealand |
| 1982 | Mr. Toni Sailer | Austria |
| 1982 | Mr. Vladimir Smirnov | Soviet Union |
| 1982 | Mr. Ulrich Wehling | East Germany |
| 1982 | Mr. D. J. Williams | Bermuda |
| 1983 | Mr. Antônio Carlos Almeida Braga | Brazil |
| 1983 | Mr. Nikolai Gueorguiev | Bulgaria |
| 1983 | Mr. Nigel Hacking | United Kingdom |
| 1983 | Mr. Erhard Georg Friedrich Hoehne | East Germany |
| 1983 | Mr. Guipro Koffi | Ivory Coast |
| 1983 | Dr. Antonio Losada | Chile |
| 1983 | Mr. Raden Maladi | Indonesia |
| 1983 | Mr. Janusz Piewcewicz | Poland |
| 1983 | Mr. Yücel Seçkiner | Turkey |
| 1983 | Mrs. Esther Roth-Shahamorov | Israel |
| 1984 | Mr. Francisco Alguersuari Durán | Spain |
| 1984 | Mr. Duarte Manuel de Almeida Bello | Portugal |
| 1984 | Mr. Siegfried Brietzke | West Germany |
| 1984 | Mr. Muhammad Naqi Butt | Pakistan |
| 1984 | Mr. Bogomil Nonev | Bulgaria |
| 1984 | Mr. Alberto Passadore | Uruguay |
| 1984 | Mr. Jozsef Szalay | Hungary |
| 1984 | Mr. Ashenafi Youria | Ethiopia |

### 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.
| Year | Recipient | Country | Colour | Note |
| 1988 | Manfred von Brauchitsch | West Germany | | |
| 1988 | Arne B. Mollén | Norway | | |
| 1988 | Mustapha Larfaoui | Algeria | | |
| 1988 | Aladár Gerevich | Hungary | | |
| 1989 | Larisa Latynina | Soviet Union | | |
| 1990 | Lee Kun-hee | South Korea | | |
| 1990 | Jonathan Janson | United Kingdom | | |
| 1990 | Rudolf Kárpáti | Hungary | | |
| 1990 | Reizo Koike | Japan | | |
| 1990 | Naoto Tajima | Japan | | |
| 1990 | Lamine Diack | Senegal | | |
| 1990 | Asnoldo Devonish | Venezuela | | |
| 1991 | Ioan Kunst-Ghermănescu | Romania | | |
| 1992 | Hassan Agabani | Sudan | | |
| 1992 | José Azcona | Mexico | | |
| 1992 | Jorge Herrera Barona | Colombia | | |
| 1992 | Dr. Mário Carvalho Pini | Brazil | | |
| 1992 | Itzhak Caspi | Israel | | |
| 1992 | Vahit Colakoglu | Turkey | | |
| 1992 | Dr. Evie Dennis | United States | | |
| 1992 | Deszo Gyarmati | Hungary | | |
| 1992 | Kurt Heller | Australia | | Awarded posthumously |
| 1992 | Raul Ibarra Zapata | Mexico | | |
| 1992 | Viacheslav I. Koloskov | Russia | | |
| 1992 | Gaoussou Kone | Ivory Coast | | |
| 1992 | Carlos Pardo | Spain | | |
| 1992 | Mario Pescante | Italy | | |
| 1992 | Baaron Pittenger | United States | | |
| 1992 | Eduardo Airaldi Rivarola | Peru | | |
| 1992 | Carlos Salinas de Gortari | Mexico | | |
| 1992 | Gottfried Schoedl | Austria | | |
| 1992 | Gursewak Singh | India | | |
| 1992 | Prof. Nikos Yalouris | Greece | | |
| 1992 | Mrs. Caizhen Zhang | China | | |
| 1993 | Jacques Blanc | France | | |
| 1993 | Anna Sinilkina | Russia | Silver | |
| 1993 | Ted Stevens | United States | | |
| 1993 | Jordi Pujol | Spain | | |
| 1993 | Dražen Petrović | Croatia | | Posthumously awarded |
| 1994 | Vladimir Krivcov | Russia | | |
| 1996 | Christian Erb | Switzerland | | |
| 1996 | Vladimir Maksimov | Russia | | |
| 1997 | Chris de Broglio | South Africa | | |
| 1997 | Hendrika Mastenbroek | Netherlands | | |
| 1997 | Roy Jones Jr. | United States | | |
| 1997 | Bob Barney | Canada | | Establishing the International Centre for Olympic Studies |
| 1998 | Frédy Girardet | Switzerland | | |
| 1998 | Chung Ju-yung | South Korea | | |
| 1998 | Wolf-Dieter Montag | Germany | | |
| 1998 | Erica Terpstra | Netherlands | | |
| 1998 | Artūras Poviliūnas | Lithuania | | |
| 1999 | Alexander Tikhonov | Russia | | |
| 1999 | Steffi Graf | Germany | | |
| 1999 | Antonio Spallino | Italy | | |
| 1999 | Bertrand Piccard | Switzerland | | |
| 1999 | Brian Jones | England | | |
| 1999 | Frederic Prieto i Caballé | Spain | | |
| 2000 | Res Brügger | | | |
| 2000 | Alberto Tomba | Italy | | |
| 2000 | David Coleman | England | | |
| 2000 | Alida van den Bos | Netherlands | | |
| 2001 | Albert Scharf | | | |
| 2001 | Raymond Hahn | France | | |
| 2001 | Enrique Sanz | Spain | | |
| 2001 | Richard Bunn | Switzerland | | |
| 2001 | Arvydas Sabonis | Lithuania | | |
| 2001 | René Burkhalter | Switzerland | | |
| 2001 | Arnold Green | Estonia | | |
| 2001 | Félix Savón | Cuba | | |
| 2001 | Eric Walter | | | |
| 2001 | Myriam Bédard | Canada | | |
| 2001 | David Douillet | France | | |
| 2001 | Krisztina Egerszegi | Hungary | | |
| 2001 | Cathy Freeman | Australia | | |
| 2001 | Kazuyoshi Funaki | Japan | | |
| 2001 | Aleksandr Karelin | Russia | | |
| 2001 | Marco Marin | Italy | | |
| 2001 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | | |
| 2001 | Naim Süleymanoğlu | Turkey | | |
| 2001 | Pirmin Zurbriggen | Switzerland | | |
| 2002 | Erwin Lanc | Austria | | |
| 2002 | Peter Blake | New Zealand | | Posthumously awarded |
| 2002 | Shirley Strickland | Australia | | |
| 2002 | Janis Grinbergas | Lithuania | | |
| 2002 | Wayne Gretzky | Canada | | |
| 2002 | Miroslav Šubrt | Czech Republic | | |
| 2002 | Walter Bush | United States | | |
| 2002 | Shoichi Tomita | Japan | | |
| 2002 | Flor Isava-Fonseca | Venezuela | | |
| 2002 | Ashwini Kumar | India | | |
| 2002 | David Wallechinsky | United States | | |
| 2003 | John Williams | United States | | |
| 2003 | Adolf Ogi | Switzerland | | |
| 2003 | Jean Durry | France | | |
| 2004 | Matthias Kleinert | | | |
| 2004 | Francoise Zweifel | | | |
| 2004 | Nadia Comăneci | Romania | | |
| 2004 | George Bolos | | Silver | |
| 2005 | Shirley Babashoff | United States | | |
| 2006 | Hans Wilhelm Gäb | | | |
| 2009 | Thor Nilsen | | | |
| 2012 | Eiichi Kawatei | Japan | | |
| 2012 | David Stern | United States | | |
| 2016 | Ottavio Cinquanta | Italy | | |
| 2016 | Patrick Chamunda | Zambia | | |
| Unknown | Dawn Fraser | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | William Berge Phillips | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Julius Patching | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Herb Elliott | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | John Devitt | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Stepan Kerkyasharian | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Sandy Hollway | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Jim Sloman | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Michael Eyers | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Bob Leece | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Mick O'Brien | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Robert Elphinston | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Margaret McLennan | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | John Fitzgerald | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Shirley Strickland | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Di Henry | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Kerry Stokes | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Phillip Walter Coles | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Kevan Gosper | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | Helen Brownlee | Australia | Silver | |
| Unknown | David Richmond | Australia | Gold | |
| Unknown | John Howard | Australia | Gold | |
| Unknown | Alexander Tikhonov | Soviet Union / Russian Federation | ? | |
| Unknown | Alexander Karelin | Soviet Union / Russian Federation | ? | |
| Unknown | Doug Arnot | United States | Silver | Services to London 2012 |
| Unknown | Mike Loynd | United States | Silver | Services to London 2012 |
| Unknown | James Bulley | United Kingdom | Silver | |
| Unknown | Richard George | United Kingdom | Silver | |
| Unknown | Debbie Jevans | United Kingdom | Silver | |
| Unknown | Ian Johnston | United Kingdom | Silver | |
| Unknown | Gerry Pennell | United Kingdom | Silver | |
| Unknown | Jean Tomlin | United Kingdom | Silver | |

## 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.