President of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games

The President of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is the individual who is in charge of leading the Organizing Committee for each Olympic Games.

Lists of presidents

Summer Olympic Games

PresidentGameHost CityYear
Constantine I of GreeceGames of the I OlympiadKingdom of Greece Athens1896
Pierre de CoubertinGames of the II OlympiadFrance Paris1900
David R. FrancisGames of the III OlympiadUnited States St. Louis1904
Edward BattellGames of the IV OlympiadUnited Kingdom London1908
Sigfrid EdströmGames of the V OlympiadSweden Stockholm1912
Henri de Baillet-LatourGames of the VII OlympiadBelgium Antwerp1920
Pierre de CoubertinGames of the VIII OlympiadFrance Paris1924
Solko van den BerghGames of the IX OlympiadNetherlands Amsterdam1928
George BryantGames of the X OlympiadUnited States Los Angeles1932
Joseph Goebbels
Karl Ritter von Halt
Games of the XI OlympiadNazi Germany Berlin1936
Lord BurghleyGames of the XIV OlympiadUnited Kingdom London1948
Erik V. FrenckellGames of the XV OlympiadFinland Helsinki1952
Wilfrid Kent HughesGames of the XVI OlympiadAustralia Melbourne1956
Giulio AndreottiGames of the XVII OlympiadItaly Rome1960
Daigoro YasukawaGames of the XVIII OlympiadJapan Tokyo1964
Pedro Ramírez VázquezGames of the XIX OlympiadMexico Mexico City1968
Hans-Jochen VogelGames of the XX OlympiadWest Germany Munich1972
Jean DoréGames of the XXI OlympiadCanada Montreal1976
Konstantin Chernenko
(official representative Ignati Novikov)
Games of the XXII OlympiadSoviet Union Moscow1980
Peter UeberrothGames of the XXIII OlympiadUnited States Los Angeles1984
Kim Yong-shik
Roh Tae-woo
Park Seh-jik
Games of the XXIV OlympiadSouth Korea Seoul1988
Pasqual MaragallGames of the XXV OlympiadSpain Barcelona1992
Billy PayneGames of the XXVI OlympiadUnited States Atlanta1996
Michael KnightGames of the XXVII OlympiadAustralia Sydney2000
Gianna Angelopoulos-DaskalakiGames of the XXVIII OlympiadGreece Athens2004
Liu QiGames of the XXIX OlympiadChina Beijing2008
Lord CoeGames of the XXX OlympiadUnited Kingdom London2012
Carlos Arthur NuzmanGames of the XXXI OlympiadBrazil Rio de Janeiro2016
Yoshirō MoriGames of the XXXII OlympiadJapan Tokyo2020
Tony EstanguetGames of the XXXIII Olympiad France Paris2024
Casey WassermanGames of the XXXIV Olympiad United States Los Angeles2028

Winter Olympic Games

PresidentGameHost CityYear
Pierre de CoubertinI Olympic Winter GamesFrance Chamonix1924
Edmund SchulthessII Olympic Winter GamesSwitzerland St Moritz1928
William StephensIII Olympic Winter GamesUnited States Lake Placid1932
Joseph GoebbelsIV Olympic Winter GamesNazi Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen1936
Alfred Schläppi
Heinrich Schläppi
V Olympic Winter GamesSwitzerland St. Moritz1948
Haakon VII of Norway
Princess Astrid of Norway
Olaf Helset
VI Olympic Winter GamesNorway Oslo1952
Enrico ColliVII Olympic Winter GamesItaly Cortina d'Ampezzo1956
Prentis Cobb HaleVIII Olympic Winter GamesUnited States Squaw Valley1960
Bruno KreiskyIX Olympic Winter GamesAustria Innsbruck1964
Jean de BeaumontX Olympic Winter GamesFrance Grenoble1968
Kōgorō UemuraXI Olympic Winter GamesJapan Sapporo1972
Bruno KreiskyXII Olympic Winter GamesAustria Innsbruck1976
Rev. J. Bernard FellXIII Olympic Winter GamesUnited States Lake Placid1980
Branko MikulićXIV Olympic Winter GamesSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Sarajevo1984
Frank KingXV Olympic Winter GamesCanada Calgary1988
Jean-Claude KillyXVI Olympic Winter GamesFrance Albertville1992
Gerhard HeibergXVII Olympic Winter GamesNorway Lillehammer1994
Eishiro SaitoXVIII Olympic Winter GamesJapan Nagano1998
Frank Joklik
Mitt Romney
XIX Olympic Winter GamesUnited States Salt Lake City2002
Valentino CastellaniXX Olympic Winter GamesItaly Turin2006
John FurlongXXI Olympic Winter GamesCanada Vancouver2010
Dmitry ChernyshenkoXXII Olympic Winter GamesRussia Sochi2014
Kim Jin-sun
Cho Yang-ho
Lee Hee-beom
XXIII Olympic Winter GamesSouth Korea Pyeongchang2018
Guo Jinlong
Cai Qi
XXIV Olympic Winter GamesChina Beijing2022

Summer Youth Olympic Games

PresidentGameHost CityYear
Ng Ser MiangI Summer Youth Olympic GamesSingapore Singapore2010
Li XueyongII Summer Youth Olympic GamesChina Nanjing2014
Gerardo WertheinIII Summer Youth Olympic GamesArgentina Buenos Aires2018

Winter Youth Olympic Games

PresidentGameHost CityYear
Richard RubatscherI Winter Youth Olympic GamesAustria Innsbruck2012
Siri HatlenII Winter Youth Olympic GamesNorway Lillehammer2016
Ian LoganIII Winter Youth Olympic GamesSwitzerland Lausanne2020

Other Offices Held

Presidents of the Olympic Organizing Committee have gone on to or have served in other high offices.

Joseph Goebbels who headed the organizing committees for the 1936 Winter Olympics and 1936 Summer Olympics served as Chancellor of Germany for one day in 1945 before committing suicide.

Elected Office

David R. Francis who headed the organizing committee for the 1904 Summer Olympics served as Governor of Missouri prior to heading the organizing committee. He later briefly served as the US Ambassador to Russia.

Following the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Mitt Romney ran for Governor of Massachusetts and was elected Governor with nearly 50% of the vote in the election. He served one term as governor. He was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 Presidential Election but lost to then-incumbent President Barack Obama.

Yoshirō Mori who is the head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2000 to 2001.

Other Sporting Positions

Pierre de Coubertin who headed the organizing committees for the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics as well as the 1924 Winter Olympics was the founder of the modern Olympic movement and International Olympic Committee. He served as President of the International Olympic Committee from 1896 to 1925.

Peter Ueberroth who headed the organizing committee for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles went on to serve as the Commissioner of Baseball from 1984 to 1989.

Sebastian Coe who headed the organizing committee for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London is now serving as the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations. He had also served as the Chairman of the British Olympic Association from 2012 to 2016.

References

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