2010 Winter Paralympics national flag bearers explained

During the Parade of Nations at the 2010 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony, which was held beginning at 6:00 PM PST on March 12, 2010, 44 athletes bore the flags of their respective nations and lead their national delegations as they paraded into BC Place Stadium in the host city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The flag was borne by a sportsperson, from that country, chosen either by the National Paralympic Committee or by the athletes themselves to represent their country.

The following is a list of each country's flag bearer.^[1]

Order	Nation	Flag bearer	Sport
1		Xabier Fernández	Alpine skiing
2		Juan Ignacio Maggi	Alpine skiing
3		Gayane Usnyan	Alpine skiing
4		Toby Kane	Alpine skiing
5		Robert Meusburger	Alpine skiing
6		Liudmila Vauchok	Cross-country skiing
7		Natasha De Troyer	Alpine skiing
8		Memic Nijaz	Alpine skiing
9		Alexander Stoyanov	Cross-country skiing
10		Tomas De Villar	Alpine skiing
11		Cheng Shishuai	Cross-country skiing
12		Maric Dadic	Alpine skiing
13		Anna Kuliskova	Alpine skiing
14		Marianne Maiboll	Cross-country skiing
15		Ilkka Toumisto	Cross-country skiing
16		Romain Riboud	Alpine skiing
17		Frank Höfle	Cross-country skiing
18		Michael McCreadie	Wheelchair curling
19		Vivi Christodoulopoulou	Alpine skiing
20		Balazs Koleszar	Alpine skiing
21		Erna Fridriksdottir	Alpine skiing
22		Sadegh Kalhor	Alpine skiing
23		Gianmaria Dal Maistro	Alpine skiing
24		Takayuki Endo	Ice sledge hockey
25		Oleg Syssolyatin	Cross-country skiing
26		Juan Armando Ruiz Hernandez	Alpine skiing
27		Enkhbaatar Zorig	Cross-country skiing
28		Falco Jeitsma	Alpine skiing coach
29		Adam Hall	Alpine skiing
30		Mariann Vestbostad	Cross-country skiing
31		Jarosław Rola	Alpine skiing
32		Laura Valenu	Alpine skiing
33		Valery Kupchinskii	Cross-country skiing
34		Jasmin Bambur	Alpine skiing
35		Ivaeta Chlebakova	Alpine skiing
36		Gal Jakic	Alpine skiing
37		David Bruce Warner	Alpine skiing
38		Han Min-su	Ice sledge hockey
39		Ursula Pueyo	Alpine skiing
40		Jens Kask	Ice sledge hockey
41		Thomas Pfyl	Alpine skiing
42		Olena Iurkovska	Cross-country skiing
43		Heath Calhoun	Alpine skiing
44		Jean Labonté	Ice sledge hockey

See also

• 2010 Winter Olympics national flag bearers

Notes and References

1. Web site: Flagbearers from Opening Ceremony . International Paralympic Committee (IPC) . 12 March 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100620033748/http://paralympic.org/export/sites/default/Media_Centre/News/General_News/FLAG_BEARER_NOMINATIONS_Opening_Ceremony.pdf . 20 June 2010 .