List of recipients of the Paralympic Order
Appearance
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. |
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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. |
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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
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Year | Name | Title | NPC |
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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 |
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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. 18 September 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ "Obrigado Brazil! People to receive highest honour". IPC. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ^ "Hartung awarded top Paralympic honour". Paralympics Australia. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.