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. Hari Bhandari	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. Greg Hodgson	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 the 2012 Summer Paralympics.	Great Britain
2016	The citizens of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil	For "outstanding support" of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[9][10]	Brazil

See also

• List of recipients of the Olympic Order

References

1. The Paralympian - Issue 1/2010, The Paralympian page 14, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
2. Paralympic Order, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
3. China's Deng Pufang wins IPC top award, Official Website of the Chinese Olympic Committee, November 21, 2005
4. Paralympic Family Members Decorated with Medals, The Paralympian No. 2 / 2002
5. 1996 ATLANTA PARALYMPIC GAMES - Final look: Record-breaking international competition, The Atlanta Journal, August 26, 1996
6. "Para-sport & Paralympic News - Official Source - IPC". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
7. "U.S. Paralympics - Features, Events, Results - Team USA". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
8. "Boris Johnson awarded Paralympic Order medal". 7 September 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
9. "Rio Paralympics 2016: Closing ceremony tribute for Bahman Golbarnezhad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
10. "Obrigado Brazil! People to receive highest honour". IPC. Retrieved 19 September 2016.