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.The Paralympian - Issue 1/2010 , The Paralympian page 14, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)Paralympic Order, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
Before 2003, the Paralympic Order was given out in three categories: Gold, Silver and Bronze.China's Deng Pufang wins IPC top award, Official Website of the Chinese Olympic Committee, November 21, 2005Paralympic Family Members Decorated with Medals , The Paralympian No. 2 / 2002
Recipients
1990s Year Name Title 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 Fleming1996 ATLANTA PARALYMPIC GAMES - Final look: Record-breaking international competition, The Atlanta Journal, August 26, 1996 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
Year Name Title 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 PacificAustralia Gilbert Felli IOC Sports Director 2002 Bob Garff Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Salt Lake 2002 Organizing Committee (SLOC) Mitt Romney Chief executive Officer and President of SLOC United States Fraser Bullock Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of SLOC United States Bob McCullough Past president of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF)Australia Gudrun Doll-Tepper Past IPC chairperson of the science committee and president of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) Gertrude Krombholz Past IPC chairperson Wheelchair Dance Sport Hans Lindström 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 QiFormer 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 Former Chairperson of the Football 7-a-Side Committee of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA)
2010s
While Paralympic Orders were presented to Dmitry Chernyshenko, President of Sochi 2014 Organising Committee, Dmitry Kozak, Prime Minister of Russia, Oleg Syromolotov, Chief of Interagency Security Command Centre Sochi 2014, and Alexander Gorovoy, Chief of Interagency Security Command Centre Sochi 2014 following their roles in the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, the IPC withdrew their awards in March 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.