2022 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations

During the Parade of Nations within the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony on February 4, athletes and officials from each participating country marched in the Beijing National Stadium preceded by their flag and placard bearer bearing the respective country's name. Each flag bearer was chosen either by the nation's National Olympic Committee or by the team of athletes themselves.

Parade order By tradition, Greece entered first as the originator of the Olympics, and China entered last as host. Per a new rule introduced by the International Olympic Committee at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Italy entered second-to-last as the upcoming host of the 2026 Winter Olympics. All nations in between entered in the collation order of the host nation's language, Mandarin, in Simplified Chinese.

As part of sanctions due to the Russian doping scandal, Russia was not allowed to directly use its name or flag, and entered under the acronym "ROC" after the Russian Olympic Committee and its flag.

Announcers in the stadium read off the names of the marching nations in Mandarin Chinese (the official language of the host country), English, and French (the official languages of the Olympics) with music accompanying the athletes as they marched into the stadium.

According to the current version of the Olympic Charter, during those Games, each nation had the option of having two flag bearers (a man and a woman) in an effort to promote gender equality.

Sort order As Chinese characters do not have an alphabetical order, they were sorted based on stroke count. Specifically: Characters with fewer strokes march earlier, so San Marino () marched before Kyrgyzstan () because has 5 strokes and has 6 strokes. If the initial characters have the same number of strokes, then the stroke orders of the two characters are grouped in the order 橫竖撇捺折 (horizontal/vertical/left falling/right falling/fold). For example, Denmark () marched before Brazil () because has four strokes in the order (3541), while has four strokes in the order (5215). The second characters are not compared, even though has more strokes than . While it is possible to have a pair of characters with the same stroke count and the same stroke order groups, this did not occur during the parade. If the initial characters are identical, the second characters of each nation are used, and so on.

List The following is a list of each country's flag bearer. The list is sorted by the sequence that each nation appeared in the Parade of Nations. The names are given in their official designations by the IOC, and the Chinese names follow their official designations by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

OrderNationChinese namePinyinFlag bearerSport/Function1 Apostolos AngelisCross-country skiingMaria Ntanou2 Furkan AkarShort track speed skating Aysenur DumanCross-country skiing3 Jenise SpiteriSnowboarding4 Mialitiana ClercAlpine skiing Mathieu Neumuller5 Aruwin SalehhuddinAlpine skiingJeffrey Webb6 Sarah EscobarAlpine skiing7 Shannon-Ogbnai AbedaAlpine skiing8 Benjamin AlexanderAlpine skiingJazmine Fenlator-VictorianBobsleigh9 Loena HendrickxFigure skatingArmand MarchantAlpine skiing10 Arisa GoSpeed skatingAkito WatabeNordic combined11 Huang Yu-tingSpeed skating Ho Ping-juiAlpine skiing12 Sidney ChuShort track speed skating13 Madeleine DupontCurlingFrans NielsenIce hockey14 Oleksandr AbramenkoFreestyle skiingOleksandra NazarovaFigure skating15 Komiljon TukhtaevAlpine skiing16 Edson BindilattiBobsleighJaqueline MourãoCross-country skiing17 Muhammad KarimAlpine skiing18 Evgeni KrasnopolskiFigure skatingNoa SzollosAlpine skiing19 Yohan Goutt GonçalvesAlpine skiing20 Dardan DehariAlpine skiing21 Matthieu OschAlpine skiing Gwyneth ten Raa22 Ignat GolovatsiukSpeed skatingHanna Nifantava23 Arif KhanAlpine skiing24 Deividas KizalaFigure skatingPaulina Ramanauskaitė25 Seun AdigunTeam official26 Carlos MäderAlpine skiing27 Charles HamelinShort track speed skatingMarie-Philip PoulinIce hockey28 Matteo GattiAlpine skiingAnna Torsani29 Maksim GordeevAlpine skiing30 Tina GarabedianFigure skatingMikayel MikayelyanCross-country skiing31 Queralt CastelletSnowboardingAnder MirambellSkeleton32 Stefan MarxerTeam official33 Atefeh AhmadiAlpine skiingHossein Saveh-Shemshaki34 Zita TóthAlpine skiingMárton Kékesi35 Kristrún GuðnadóttirCross-country skiingSturla Snær SnorrasonAlpine skiing36 Maeva EstevezSnowboarding37 Valtteri FilppulaIce hockey38 Zrinka LjutićAlpine skiingMarko SkenderCross-country skiing39 Fayik AbdiAlpine skiing40 Denni XhepaAlpine skiing41 Francesca BaruzziAlpine skiingFranco Dal FarraCross-country skiing42 Vladimir LitvintsevFigure skating43 Elīza TīrumaLugeLauris DārziņšIce hockey44 Eve MuirheadCurlingDave RydingAlpine skiing45 Raluca StrămăturaruLugePaul PepeneCross-country skiing46 ROC Olga FatkulinaSpeed skatingVadim ShipachyovIce hockey47 Tessa WorleyAlpine skiingKevin RollandFreestyle skiing48 Aleksandra KrólSnowboardingZbigniew BródkaSpeed skating49 Kellie DelkaSkeletonWilliam FlahertyAlpine skiing50 Elvedina MuzaferijaAlpine skiingMirza NikolajevLuge51 Simon Breitfuss KammerlanderAlpine skiing52 Kjetil JansrudAlpine skiingKristin SkaslienCurling53 Yekaterina AidovaSpeed skatingAbzal AzhgaliyevShort track speed skating54 Albin TahiriAlpine skiing55 Maria ZdravkovaBiathlonRadoslav YankovSnowboarding56 Brittany BoweSpeed skatingJohn ShusterCurling57 Nathan CrumptonSkeleton58 VolunteerVolunteer59 Karen ChanloungCross-country skiingNicola ZanonAlpine skiing 60 Lindsay van ZundertFigure skatingKjeld NuisSpeed skating61 Nino TsiklauriAlpine skiingMorisi KvitelashviliFigure skating62 Laura GómezSpeed skatingCarlos Andres QuintanaCross-country skiing63 Andre MarcanoBobsleigh64 Ornella Oettl ReyesAlpine skiing65 Elsa DesmondLugeBrendan NewbyFreestyle skiing66 Kelly SildaruFreestyle skiingMartin HimmaCross-country skiing67 Richardson VianoAlpine skiing68 Alena MillsIce hockeyMichal BřezinaFigure skating69 Asa MillerAlpine skiing70 Ilka ŠtuhecAlpine skiingRok MargučSnowboarding71 Marek HrivikIce hockeyKatarina SimonakovaLuge72 Ricardo BrancalAlpine skiingVanina Guerillot73 Kim A-langShort track speed skatingKwak Yoon-gy74 Eldar SalihovićAlpine skiingJelena Vujicic75 Dominique OhacoFreestyle skiingHenrik von AppenAlpine skiing76 Julia DujmovitsSnowboardingBenjamin MaierBobsleigh77 Andres AmbühlIce hockeyWendy HoldenerAlpine skiing78 Oliwer MagnussonFreestyle skiingEmma NordinIce hockey79 Ariunsanaagiin EnkhtuulCross-country skiingBatmönkhiin Achbadrakh80 Alice RobinsonAlpine skiingFinn BilousFreestyle skiing81 Marko VukićevićAlpine skiing82 Yianno KouyoumdjianAlpine skiing83 Sarah SchleperAlpine skiingDonovan CarrilloFigure skating84 Manon OuaissAlpine skiingCesar Arnouk85 Francesco FriedrichBobsleighClaudia PechsteinSpeed skating86 Doina DescaluiLuge87 Arnaud AlessandriaAlpine skiing88 Yassine AouichAlpine skiing89 Brendan KerryFigure skatingLaura PeelFreestyle skiing90 Michela MoioliSnowboarding91 Zhao DanSkeletonGao TingyuSpeed skating

Notes

See also 2022 Winter Paralympics Parade of Nations

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