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]
1990s
| Year | Name | Title | Country | Lvl. |
| 1994 | Mr. Gerhard Heiberg | President of the Lillehammer 1994 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (LPOC) | Norway | |
| Mr. John Magdal | Managing Director of LPOC | Norway | ||
| Ms. Lill-Unni Østern | Office Manager of LPOC | Norway | ||
| Mr. Rolf Jenssen | Venues Consultant of LPOC | Norway | ||
| 1996 | Mr. Juan Antonio Samaranch | President of the International Olympic Committee IOC | Spain | |
| Mr. Andrew Fleming[5] | President of the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (APOC) | United States |  | |
| 1998 | Mr. Goro Yoshimura | President of the Nagano 1998 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (NAPOC) | Japan | |
| Mr. Tasuku Tsukada | Mayor of Nagano | Japan | ||
| Mr. Yoshifumi Ihara | Deputy Secretary General of NAPOC | Japan | ||
| 1999 | Ms. Joan Scruton | Past Secretary General of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF) | Great Britain |
2000s
| Year | Name | Title | Country | Lvl. |
| 2000 | Dr. John Grant | President of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (SPOC) | Australia | |
| 2001 | Dr. Robert Steadward | Past President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) | Canada | |
| Dr. Michael Riding | Past IPC Medical Officer | |||
| Mr. André Auberger | Past IPC Treasurer | |||
| Mrs. Elisabeth Dendy | Past President of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) | |||
| Ms. Lina Faria | Past President of CPISRA | |||
| Mr. Enrique Sanz | Past President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) | |||
| Mr. Guillermo Cabezas | Past President of the International Sports Organization for the Disabled (ISOD) | |||
| Sir Harry Fang | Founding Father of the Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled (FESPIC) | China | ||
| Mr. Walter Tröger | International Olympic Committee (IOC) Delegate Member for Disabled Sport | |||
| Mr. George Dunstan | Past International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Regional Representative South Pacific | Australia | ||
| Mr. Gilbert Felli | IOC Sports Director | |||
| 2002 | Mr. Bob Garff[4] | Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Salt Lake 2002 Organizing Committee (SLOC) | | |
| Mr. Mitt Romney[4] | Chief Executive Officer and President of SLOC | United States | | |
| Mr. Fraser Bullock[4] | Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of SLOC | United States | | |
| Mr. Bob McCullough[4] | Past President of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF) | Australia |  | |
| Prof. Dr. Gudrun Doll-Tepper[4] | Past IPC Chairperson Science Committee and President of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) | | ||
| Dr. Gertrude Krombholz[4] | Past IPC Chairperson Wheelchair Dance Sport | | ||
| Mr. Hans Lindström[4] | Past IPC Technical Officer and Regional Representative Europe | | ||
| 2003 | Mr. Yasuhiro Hatsuyama | Former IPC Executive Committee member and East Asia Representative | ||
| Mr. Colin Rains | President of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) | |||
| Mr. Hector Ramirez | Past President of the Pan American Wheelchair Sport Federation, President of the Argentine Paralympic Committee (COPAR) | |||
| Mr. Donald Royer | President of the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association | |||
| Ms. Jean Stone | Technical Secretary to the IPC Sports Council, Women in Sport Committee | |||
| Mr. Carl Wang | Chairperson of the Norwegian Sports Organization for the Disabled and President of the European Paralympic Committee | Norway | ||
| Mr. Xavier Gonzalez | Paralympic Games Liaison Director and interim COO | |||
| 2004 | Ms. Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | President of the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee (ATHOC) | Greece | |
| Mr. Ioannis Spanudakis | Managing Director of ATHOC | |||
| Ms. Ioanna Karyofylli | General Manager of ATHOC | |||
| Sir 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 | Mr. 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 | ||
| Ms. Birgitta Blomquist | Past representative to a variety of sport federations (Swimming Committee Chairperson 1984-1992 and Wintersport Committee Chairperson 1986-1992) | |||
| Mr. Chris Cohen | Chairperson of the IPC Athletics Executive Committee | |||
| Ms. Leen Coudenys | IPC Executive Assistant | |||
| Mr. Ian Harrison, MBE | President of the International Foundation for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) | |||
| Dr. Robert Jackson | Past Director, Vice-President and President of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation from 1972 until 1984 | |||
| Ms. Carol Mushett | Past IPC Technical Officer of the IPC Executive Committee | |||
| Mr. Enrique Perez | Past President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) and President of the World Blind Union | |||
| Mr. 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 | ||
| Sir Albert Tricot | Founder of the Belgian Paralympic Committee | |||
| Dr. Whang, Youn Dai | Vice-President of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled (KOSAD) and founder of the ‘Whang Youn Dai Prize’ | |||
| 2006 | Dr. 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 | ||
| Mr. Giuseppe Ferrari | Secretary General of the Committee for the Paralympic Winter Games of Torino 2006 (ComParTo) | |||
| Dr. 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) | |||
| Mr. 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 | |||
| Ms. Tiziana Nasi | President of the Committee for the Paralympic Winter Games of Torino 2006 (ComParTo) | |||
| Mr. 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) | |||
| Dr. 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) | |||
| Mr. 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) | |||
| Mr. 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 | President of the Hellenic Paralympic Committee and promoter of sports for persons with a disability in Greece | |||
| 2008 | Mr. Liu Qi | President of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee (BOCOG), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the CPC Beijing Committee | ||
| Mr. Hui Liangyu | Vice Premier of the State Council, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee | |||
| Ms. Liu Yandong | Vice President of BOCOG, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor | |||
| Ms. Chen Zhili | Vice President of BOCOG, Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress | |||
| Mr. 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) | |||
| Mr. Liu Peng | Executive President of BOCOG, Minister of the General Administration of Sport of China, President of the Chinese Olympic Committee | |||
| Mr. Guo Jinlong | Mayor of Beijing, Executive President of BOCOG | China | ||
| Ms. Tang Xiaoquan | President of the Executive Board and Vice President of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, Executive Vice President of BOCOG | |||
| Ms. Zhao Wenzhi | Deputy of Paralympic Games Command Center, Vice Chairperson of CPPCC Beijing Committee | |||
| Mr. Manolo Romero | Managing Director of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) | |||
| Ms. Anne Ebbs | Former Secretary General of the Paralympic Council of Ireland (PCI) | |||
| 2009 | Mr. Valeriy Sushkevych | President of the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine | ||
| Ms. Maura Strange | Executive Director and Secretary General of the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) | |||
| Mr. Pol Wautermartens | Former Chairperson of the IPC Powerlifting Sport Technical Committee | |||
| Mr. Tony Sainsbury | Former Vice-President of IWBF Europe and five-time Chef de Mission of the British Team for the Paralympics | |||
| Mr. Jerry Johnston | Founder of the Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing (CADS) | |||
| Mr. Jens Bromann | Former President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) | |||
| Mr. Bob Fisher | Former Chairperson of the Football 7-a-Side Committee of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) | |||
2010s
| Year | Name | Title | Country |
| 2010 | Mr. John Furlong | CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Organizing Committee (VANOC) | |
| Ms. Dena Coward | VANOC Paralympic Games Director | ||
| Mr. Jack Poole | Late VANOC Chairman of the Board of Directors | ||
| Mr. Rusty Goepel | VANOC Chairman of the Board of Directors | ||
| 2011[6] | Mr. Matthias Berg | Seven-time Paralympian. Member of the National Paralympic Committee of Germany (2011). | |
| Mr. Luca Pancalli | President of the National Paralympic Committee of Italy (2011). Eight-time Paralympian. Commissioner of the Italian Football Federation (2011). | ||
| Dr. 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. | ||
| Mr. Randy Snow | Three-time Paralympian and first Paralympian to be inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame (2004).[7] | ||
| 2013[8] | Mr. Boris Johnson | Mayor of London during London 2012. |  Great Britain |
See also
References
- ↑ The Paralympian - Issue 1/2010, 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
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Paralympic Family Members Decorated with Medals, The Paralympian No. 2 / 2002
- ↑ 1996 ATLANTA PARALYMPIC GAMES - Final look: Record-breaking international competition, The Atlanta Journal, August 26, 1996
- ↑ http://www.paralympic.org/Media_Centre/News/General_News/2011_12_01_d.html
- ↑ http://usparalympics.org/news/2009/11/20/mourning-the-loss-of-randy-snow/29235
- ↑ http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/boris-johnson-awarded-paralympic-order-medal-8803271.html
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