2010 Winter Olympics national flag bearers

During the Parade of Nations at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, held beginning at 6:00 PM PST on February 12, 2010, 82 athletes bearing the flags of their respective nations led their national delegations as they paraded into BC Place Stadium in the host city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[1]

Athletes entered the stadium in an order dictated by tradition. As the originator of the Olympics, Greece entered first. Canadian delegates entered last, representing the host nation. The names of the nations were announced first in French and followed by English, the official languages of the Olympics, which also happened to be the official languages of the host nation. The nations entered in alphabetic order of their country names in English because it is the more dominant of the two languages in Vancouver and in the province of British Columbia.

Delegations from North Korea and South Korea marched in separate delegations, unlike in the 2006 Winter Olympics when they marched together.[2]

Of the flag-bearers who led their respective delegations, all but one were athletes, the exception being Fuad Guliyev, a skating official from Azerbaijan. The sport which was most represented among the flag-bearers was alpine skiing, as alpine skiers led 26 delegations. Only one delegation was led by a short track speed skater, Hong Kong, led by Han Yue Shueng.[1] Marjan Kalhor, an alpine skier and the flag-bearer for Iran, was both the first female flag bearer from her country and the first female athlete from her country to participate in the Winter Olympics.[2] It was erroneously pointed out by a Canadian TV commentator that Tomomi Okazaki was the first female flag bearer for Japan. This title goes to Seiko Hashimoto in Calgary 1988. Other prominent flag bearers included Canadian speed skater and five-time Olympian Clara Hughes, American luger Mark Grimmette, who had helped carry the American flag during the 2002 Winter Olympics, and Czech hockey player Jaromír Jágr. Hughes is the only Olympian ever to win multiple medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.[3]

Iason Abramashvili, flag bearer for Georgia, along with the other members of his delegation, wore black armbands during the march and received a standing ovation in memory of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luger who was killed in an accident during a training run earlier in the day.[4]

Parade of Nations

The Czech Republic flag being carried by Jaromír Jágr.
The Finnish flag being carried by Ville Peltonen.
The Georgian flag being carried by Iason Abramashvili. In this picture the flag has a black ribbon.
The German flag being carried by André Lange.
The British flag being carried by Shelley Rudman.
The Russian flag being carried by Aleksey Morozov.
The Slovenian flag being carried by Tina Maze.
The Swedish flag being carried by Peter Forsberg.
The Canadian flag being carried by Clara Hughes.
Order Nation Flag bearer Sport
1 Greece (GRE)Athanassios Tsakiris[5]Biathlon
2 Albania (ALB)Erjon TolaAlpine skiing
3 Algeria (ALG)Mehdi-Selim KhelifiCross-country skiing
4 Andorra (AND)Lluis Marin Tarroch[6]Snowboarding
5 Argentina (ARG)Cristian Javier Simari Birkner[7]Alpine skiing
6 Armenia (ARM)Arsen Nersisyan[8]Alpine skiing
7 Australia (AUS)Torah Bright[9]Snowboarding
8 Austria (AUT)Andreas Linger & Wolfgang LingerLuge
9 Azerbaijan (AZE)Fuad Guliyev (Fuad Quliyev)[10]Skating official
10 Belarus (BLR)Oleg Antonenko[11]Ice hockey
11 Belgium (BEL)Kevin van der Perren[12]Figure skating
12 Bermuda (BER)Tucker Murphy[13]Cross-country skiing
13 Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)Žana Novaković[14]Alpine skiing
14 Brazil (BRA)Isabel Clark RibeiroSnowboarding
15 Bulgaria (BUL)Aleksandra Zhekova[15]Snowboarding
16 Cayman Islands (CAY)Dow TraversAlpine skiing
17 Chile (CHI)Jorge MandrúAlpine skiing
18 China (CHN)Han XiaopengFreestyle skiing
19 Colombia (COL)Cynthia DenzlerAlpine skiing
20 Croatia (CRO)Jakov FakBiathlon
21 Cyprus (CYP)Christopher PapamichalopoulosAlpine skiing
22 Czech Republic (CZE)Jaromír Jágr[11]Ice hockey
23 North Korea (PRK)Ri Song-CholFigure skating
24 Denmark (DEN)Sophie Fjellvang-SøllingFreestyle skiing
25 Estonia (EST)Roland Lessing[16]Biathlon
26 Ethiopia (ETH)Robel TeklemariamCross-country skiing
27 Finland (FIN)Ville Peltonen[17]Ice hockey
28 Macedonia (MKD)Antonio Ristevski[18]Alpine skiing
29 France (FRA)Vincent Defrasne[19]Biathlon
30 Georgia (GEO)Iason AbramashviliAlpine skiing
31 Germany (GER)André Lange[20]Bobsleigh
32 Ghana (GHA)Kwame Nkrumah-AcheampongAlpine skiing
33 Great Britain (GBR)Shelley Rudman[21]Skeleton
34 Hong Kong (HKG)Han Yue ShuengShort track speed skating
35 Hungary (HUN)Júlia Sebestyén[22]Figure skating
36 Iceland (ISL)Björgvin BjörgvinssonAlpine skiing
37 India (IND)Shiva Keshavan[23]Luge
38 Iran (IRI)Marjan KalhorAlpine skiing
39 Ireland (IRL)Aoife Hoey[24]Bobsleigh
40 Israel (ISR)Alexandra Zaretsky[25]Figure skating
41 Italy (ITA)Giorgio Di Centa[26]Cross-country skiing
42 Jamaica (JAM)Errol KerrFreestyle skiing
43 Japan (JPN)Tomomi Okazaki[27]Speed skating
44 Kazakhstan (KAZ)Dias Keneshev[28]Biathlon
45 South Korea (KOR)Kang Kwang-BaeBobsleigh
46 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)Dmitry TrelevskiAlpine skiing
47 Latvia (LAT)Martins Dukurs[29]Skeleton
48 Lebanon (LIB)Chirine Njeim[30]Alpine skiing
49 Liechtenstein (LIE)Richard Wunder[31]Bobsleigh
50 Lithuania (LTU)Irina TerentjevaCross-country skiing
51 Mexico (MEX)Hubertus von HohenloheAlpine skiing
52 Moldova (MDA)Victor Pinzaru[32]Biathlon
53 Monaco (MON)Alexandra ColettiAlpine skiing
54 Mongolia (MGL)Erdene-Ochir OchirsurenCross-country skiing
55 Montenegro (MNE)Bojan KosićAlpine skiing
56 Morocco (MAR)Samir AzzimaniAlpine skiing
57 Nepal (NEP)Dachhiri SherpaCross-country skiing
58 Netherlands (NED)Timothy Beck[33]Bobsleigh
59 New Zealand (NZL)Juliane Bray[34]Snowboarding
60 Norway (NOR)Tommy Jakobsen[35]Ice hockey
61 Pakistan (PAK)Muhammad AbbasAlpine skiing
62 Peru (PER)Roberto Carcelén[36]Cross-country skiing
63 Poland (POL)Konrad Niedźwiedzki[37]Speed skating
64 Portugal (POR)Danny SilvaCross-country skiing
65 Romania (ROU)Éva TófalviBiathlon
66 Russia (RUS)Aleksey Morozov[38]Ice hockey
67 San Marino (SMR)Marino Cardelli[39]Alpine skiing
68 Senegal (SEN)Leyti SeckAlpine skiing
69 Serbia (SRB)Jelena Lolović[40]Alpine skiing
70 Slovakia (SVK)Žigmund Pálffy[11]Ice hockey
71 Slovenia (SLO)Tina MazeAlpine skiing
72 South Africa (RSA)Oliver KraasCross-country skiing
73 Spain (ESP)Queralt CastelletSnowboarding
74 Sweden (SWE)Peter ForsbergIce hockey
75 Switzerland (SUI)Stéphane Lambiel[41]Figure skating
76 Chinese Taipei (TPE)Ma Chih-hungLuge
77 Tajikistan (TJK)Alisher KudratovAlpine skiing*
78 Turkey (TUR)Kelime Aydın[42]Cross-country skiing
79 Ukraine (UKR)Liliya Ludan[43]Luge
80 United States (USA)Mark Grimmette[44]Luge
81 Uzbekistan (UZB)Oleg ShamaevAlpine skiing
82 Canada (CAN)Clara Hughes[45]Speed skating
  • Kudratov carried the flag even though he wasn't scheduled to compete.

See also

References

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General

  • "Complete list of 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic flag-bearers". The Vancouver Sun. 2010-02-12. Archived from the original on 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
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