page_title: Peace and Sport
section_title: The Champions for Peace
hierarchical_section_title: Peace and Sport / The Champions for Peace
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Champions de la Paix Peace and Sport lors du Forum International 2017
context_page_description: Peace and Sport, "L’Organisation pour la Paix par le Sport” is a neutral and independent organization based in the Principality of Monaco and under the patronage of Prince Albert II of Monaco.
  Peace and Sport works in areas across the world where communities have become estranged from one another and where traditional policies have failed to establish dialogue, with the goal of restoring peaceful relations. Its objective is to bring the structuring values of sport to the heart of communities and individuals in crisis throughout the world.
  The organization puts sport and its values at the heart of local development projects conducted within communities in crisis around the world. Exercising its missions in post-conflict zones, areas of extreme poverty or lacking social cohesion, Peace and Sport makes sport a vehicle for tolerance, respect, sharing and citizenship.
  After retiring from professional football in late 2018, Ivorian footballing legend Didier Drogba, became Vice President of the organization.
context_section_description: The Champions for Peace are high-level international athletes who want to support the most disadvantaged communities through sport. These athletes are gathered in the club of Champions for Peace. It allows the champions to have a structure of action and common expression in favor of sports projects in the service of peace and social and human development.
  These athletes use their notoriety, their skills and their means in the service of projects for the development of peace through sport.
  The latest athlete becoming Champion for Peace was Juventus player Blaise Matuidi in 2018.
  List of the Champions for Peace:
  Didier Drogba
  Yohan Blake
  Novak Djokovic
  Christian Karembeu
  Philippe Gilbert
  Paula Radcliffe
  Ronald Agenor
  Jean-Baptiste Alaize
  Isaac Angbo
  Serge Betsen
  Surya Bonaly
  Hugo Bonneval
  Rohan Bopanna
  Benjamin Boukpeti
  Vittorio Brumotti
  Sergey Bubka
  Loris Capirossi
  Sébastien Chabal
  Guo Chuan
  Charmaine Crooks
  Randy De Puniet
  Donna De Varona
  Stéphane Diagana
  Momo Dridi
  Hicham El Guerrouj
  Daniel Elena
  Rania Elwani
  Fedor Emelianenko
  Maro Engel
  Tony Estanguet
  Elias Figueroa
  Laura Flessel
  Jean-Philippe Fleurian
  Dick Fosbury
  Laure Fournier
  Fredericks Frankie
  Pierre Frolla
  Christopher Froome
  Diana Gandega
  Pascal Gentil
  Habiba Ghribi
  Hugo Giraldo Lopez
  Tatiana Golovin
  Bertrand Grospellier
  Imanol Harinordoquy
  Marlene Harnois
  Muriel Hurtis
  Yelena Isinbaeva
  Olivier Jacque
  Peter Karlsson
  Robert Karlsson
  Keita Daba Modibo
  Wilson Kipketer
  Johann Koss
  Alexandra Kosteniuk
  Willy Kouyaté
  Fareed Lafta
  Sabri Lamouchi
  Tahl Leibovitz
  Sébastien Loeb
  Jonah Lomu
  Tegla Loroupe
  Dan Luger
  Adrien Mare
  Florence Masnada
  Felipe Massa
  Bradley McGee
  Aya Medany
  Kaveh Mehrabi
  Nouria Merah-Benida
  Steve Mesler
  Elana Meyer
  Jérôme Meyer
  Zsolt Moradi
  Venuste Niyongabo
  Stuart O’Grady
  Sarah Ourahmoune
  Marie-José Pérec
  Florent Pietrus
  Sylvia Poll
  Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi
  Marc Raquil
  Edgar Renteria
  Angel Rodriguez
  Kashif Siddiqi
  Sidiki Sidibé
  Marco Simone
  Sébastien Squillaci
  Bruno Sroka
  Helena Sukova
  Julio Teherán
  Honey Thaljieh
  Maria Toorpakai
  Jean-François Tordo
  Gabriela Traña
  Gregory Vallarino
  Alexandre Vinokourov
  Patrick Viriamu
  Blanka Vlasic
  Chris Waddell
  Pernilla Wiberg
  Isabelle Yacoubou
  Pedro Alejandro Yang
  Samir Aït Saïd
  Mutaz Barshim
  Marie Bochet
  Balla Dièye
  Ladji Doucouré
  Laurence Fischer
  Stefany Hernandez
  Samantha Murray
  Fodé Ndao
  Mélissa Plaza
  Ryu Seung-min
caption: Champions for Peace la Paix during Peace and Sport International Forum in 2017
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