During the closing ceremony in Vancouver, the 82 nations selected one member of their delegation to be the flagbearer. Some countries for example, Albania chose the same athlete (Erjon Tola) as the opening ceremony. On the other hand, some countries such as Algeria had already left the Olympic village, and therefore had its NOC assistant carry the flag.
Countries and flagbearers Below is a list of all parading countries with their announced flag bearer, sorted in the order in which they appeared in the parade. This is sortable by country name under which they entered, the flag bearer's name, or the flag bearer's sport. Names are given as were officially designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
No.CountryFlag bearerSport 1 Vassilis Dimitriadis Alpine skiing 2 Alpine skiing 3 – NOC assistant 4 Mireia Gutiérrez Alpine skiing 5 Rubén González Luge 6 Sergey Mikayelyan Cross-country skiing 7 Lydia Lassila Freestyle skiing 8 Nina Reithmayer Luge 9 Konul Nurullayera Chef de mission 10 Leanid Karneyenka Cross-country skiing 11 Pieter Gysel Short track speed skating 12 Cross-country skiing 13 Marko Rudić Alpine skiing 14 Jaqueline Mourão Cross-country skiing 15 Evgenia Radanova Short track speed skating 16 Alpine skiing 17 Noelle Barahona Alpine skiing 18 Zhao Hongbo Figure skating 19 Alpine skiing 20 Ivan Šola Bobsleigh 21 Alpine skiing 22 Martina Sáblíková Speed skating 23 (Dem. People's Rep. of Korea) Ri Song Chol Figure skating 24 Johnny Frederiksen Curling 25 Kristina Šmigun-Vähi Cross-country skiing 26 Cross-country skiing 27 Tanja Poutiainen Alpine skiing 28 (Former Yugoslav Rep. of Macedonia) Alpine skiing 29 Sandrine Bailly Biathlon 30 Elene Gedevanishvili Figure skating 31 Magdalena Neuner Biathlon 32 Alpine skiing 33 Amy Williams Skeleton 34 Han Yueshuang Short track speed skating 35 Erika Huszár Short track speed skating 36 Stefan Jon Sigurgeirsson Alpine skiing 37 Tashi Lundup Cross-country skiing 38 (Islamic Rep. of Iran) Hossein Saveh-Shemshaki Alpine skiing 39 Shane O'Connor Alpine skiing 40 Mykhaylo Renzhyn Alpine skiing 41 Giuliano Razzoli Alpine skiing 42 Freestyle skiing 43 Mao Asada Figure skating 44 Alexey Poltoranin Cross-country skiing 45 (Rep. of Korea) Mo Tae-bum Speed skating 46 Alpine skiing 47 Haralds Silovs Short track speed skating Speed skating 48 Ghassan Achi Alpine skiing 49 Thomas Duerr Bobsleigh 50 Mantas Strolia Cross-country skiing 51 Alpine skiing 52 Biathlon 53 Patrice Servelle Bobsleigh 54 Khürelbaataryn Khash-Erdene Cross-country skiing 55 Alpine skiing 56 Abdenbi Lerhenane Chef de mission 57 Cross-country skiing 58 Sven Kramer Speed skating 59 Ben Sandford Skeleton 60 Petter Northug Cross-country skiing 61 Alpine skiing 62 Cross-country skiing 63 Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Speed skating 64 Cross-country skiing 65 Biathlon 66 (Russian Federation) Ivan Skobrev Speed skating 67 Gian Luca Borgagni Chef de mission 68 Alpine skiing 69 Vuk Rađenović Bobsleigh 70 Pavol Hurajt Biathlon 71 Mitja Valenčič Alpine skiing 72 Alex Heath Coach – Alpine skiing 73 Laura Orgué Cross-country skiing 74 Marcus Hellner Cross-country skiing 75 Dario Cologna Cross-country skiing 76 Ma Chih-hung Luge 77 Alisher Qudraton Official 78 Tuğba Karademir Figure skating 79 Valentina Shevchenko Cross-country skiing 80 Bill Demong Nordic combined 81 Alpine skiing 82 Joannie Rochette Figure skating
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