2022 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations explained

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,^[1] and China entered last as host. Per a new rule introduced by the International Olympic Committee at the 2020 Summer Olympics,^[2] Italy entered second-to-last as the upcoming host of the 2026 Winter Olympics. All nations in between entered in the order of the host nation's language, Simplified Chinese.^[3]

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, 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.^[4] Specifically:

• Characters with fewer strokes march earlier, so San Marino (Chinese: 圣马力诺) marched before Kyrgyzstan (Chinese: 吉尔吉斯斯坦) because Chinese: [[wikt:圣|圣]] has 5 strokes and Chinese: [[wikt:吉|吉]] 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 (Chinese: 丹麦) marched before Brazil (Chinese: 巴西) because Chinese: [[wikt:丹|丹]] has four strokes in the order (3541), while Chinese: [[wikt:巴|巴]] has four strokes in the order (5215).
  • The second characters are not compared, even though Chinese: [[wikt:麦|麦]] has more strokes than Chinese: [[wikt:西|西]].
• 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.^[5] 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.

Order	Nation	Chinese name	Pinyin	Flag bearer	Sport/Function
1		Chinese: 希腊		Apostolos Angelis	Cross-country skiing	^[6]
				Maria Ntanou
2		Chinese: 土耳其		Furkan Akar	Short track speed skating
				Aysenur Duman	Cross-country skiing
3		Chinese: 马耳他		Jenise Spiteri	Snowboarding	^[7]
4		Chinese: 马达加斯加		Mialitiana Clerc	Alpine skiing
				Mathieu Neumuller
5		Chinese: 马来西亚		Aruwin Salehhuddin	Alpine skiing	^[8]
				Jeffrey Webb
6		Chinese: 厄瓜多尔		Sarah Escobar	Alpine skiing	^[9]
7		Chinese: 厄立特里亚		Shannon-Ogbnai Abeda	Alpine skiing	^[10]
8		Chinese: 牙买加		Benjamin Alexander	Alpine skiing
				Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian	Bobsleigh
9		Chinese: 比利时		Loena Hendrickx	Figure skating	^[11]
				Armand Marchant	Alpine skiing
10		Chinese: 日本		Arisa Go	Speed skating	^[12] ^[13]
				Akito Watabe	Nordic combined
11		Chinese: 中华台北		Huang Yu-ting	Speed skating	^[14]
				Ho Ping-jui	Alpine skiing
12		Chinese: 中国香港		Sidney Chu	Short track speed skating	^[15]
13		Chinese: 丹麦		Madeleine Dupont	Curling	^[16]
				Frans Nielsen	Ice hockey
14		Chinese: 乌克兰		Oleksandr Abramenko	Freestyle skiing
				Oleksandra Nazarova	Figure skating
15		Chinese: 乌兹别克斯坦		Komiljon Tukhtaev	Alpine skiing
16		Chinese: 巴西		Edson Bindilatti	Bobsleigh
				Jaqueline Mourão	Cross-country skiing
17		Chinese: 巴基斯坦		Muhammad Karim	Alpine skiing
18		Chinese: 以色列		Evgeni Krasnopolski	Figure skating
				Noa Szollos	Alpine skiing
19		Chinese: 东帝汶		Yohan Goutt Gonçalves	Alpine skiing
20		Chinese: 北马其顿		Dardan Dehari	Alpine skiing	^[17] ^[18]
21		Chinese: 卢森堡		Matthieu Osch	Alpine skiing
				Gwyneth ten Raa
22		Chinese: 白俄罗斯		Ignat Golovatsiuk	Speed skating
				Hanna Nifantava
23		Chinese: 印度		Arif Khan	Alpine skiing	^[19]
24		Chinese: 立陶宛		Deividas Kizala	Figure skating
				Paulina Ramanauskaitė
25		Chinese: 尼日利亚		Seun Adigun	Team official	^[20]
26		Chinese: 加纳		Carlos Mäder	Alpine skiing	^[21]
27		Chinese: 加拿大		Charles Hamelin	Short track speed skating	^[22]
				Marie-Philip Poulin	Ice hockey
28		Chinese: 圣马力诺		Matteo Gatti	Alpine skiing
				Anna Torsani
29		Chinese: 吉尔吉斯斯坦		Maksim Gordeev	Alpine skiing
30		Chinese: 亚美尼亚		Tina Garabedian	Figure skating
				Mikayel Mikayelyan	Cross-country skiing
31		Chinese: 西班牙		Queralt Castellet	Snowboarding	^[23]
				Ander Mirambell	Skeleton
32		Chinese: 列支敦士登		Stefan Marxer	Team official	^[24]
33		Chinese: 伊朗		Atefeh Ahmadi	Alpine skiing	^[25]
				Hossein Saveh-Shemshaki
34		Chinese: 匈牙利		Zita Tóth	Alpine skiing	^[26]
				Márton Kékesi
35		Chinese: 冰岛		Kristrún Guðnadóttir	Cross-country skiing
				Sturla Snær Snorrason	Alpine skiing
36		Chinese: 安道尔		Maeva Estevez	Snowboarding	^[27]
37		Chinese: 芬兰		Valtteri Filppula	Ice hockey	^[28]
38		Chinese: 克罗地亚		Zrinka Ljutić	Alpine skiing
				Marko Skender	Cross-country skiing
39		Chinese: 沙特		Fayik Abdi	Alpine skiing
40		Chinese: 阿尔巴尼亚		Denni Xhepa	Alpine skiing	^[29]
41		Chinese: 阿根廷		Francesca Baruzzi	Alpine skiing	^[30]
				Franco Dal Farra	Cross-country skiing
42		Chinese: 阿塞拜疆		Vladimir Litvintsev	Figure skating	^[31]
43		Chinese: 拉脱维亚		Elīza Tīruma	Luge	^[32]
				Lauris Dārziņš	Ice hockey
44		Chinese: 英国		Eve Muirhead	Curling	^[33]
				Dave Ryding	Alpine skiing
45		Chinese: 罗马尼亚		Raluca Strămăturaru	Luge	^[34]
				Paul Pepene	Cross-country skiing
46	ROC (ROC)	ROC		Olga Fatkulina	Speed skating
				Vadim Shipachyov	Ice hockey
47		Chinese: 法国		Tessa Worley	Alpine skiing	^[35]
				Kevin Rolland	Freestyle skiing
48		Chinese: 波兰		Aleksandra Król	Snowboarding	^[36]
				Zbigniew Bródka	Speed skating
49		Chinese: 波多黎各		Kellie Delka	Skeleton	^[37]
				William Flaherty	Alpine skiing
50		Chinese: 波黑		Elvedina Muzaferija	Alpine skiing
				Mirza Nikolajev	Luge
51		Chinese: 玻利维亚		Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander	Alpine skiing
52		Chinese: 挪威		Kjetil Jansrud	Alpine skiing
				Kristin Skaslien	Curling
53		Chinese: 哈萨克斯坦		Yekaterina Aidova	Speed skating	^[38] ^[39]
				Abzal Azhgaliyev	Short track speed skating
54		Chinese: 科索沃		Albin Tahiri	Alpine skiing	^[40]
55		Chinese: 保加利亚		Maria Zdravkova	Biathlon	^[41]
				Radoslav Yankov	Snowboarding
56		Chinese: 美国		Brittany Bowe	Speed skating	^[42]
				John Shuster	Curling
57		Chinese: 美属萨摩亚		Nathan Crumpton	Skeleton
58		Chinese: 美属维尔京群岛		Volunteer	Volunteer
59		Chinese: 泰国		Karen Chanloung	Cross-country skiing
				Nicola Zanon	Alpine skiing
60		Chinese: 荷兰		Lindsay van Zundert	Figure skating	^[43]
				Kjeld Nuis	Speed skating
61		Chinese: 格鲁吉亚		Nino Tsiklauri	Alpine skiing	^[44]
				Morisi Kvitelashvili	Figure skating
62		Chinese: 哥伦比亚		Laura Gómez	Speed skating
				Carlos Andres Quintana	Cross-country skiing
63		Chinese: 特立尼达和多巴哥		Andre Marcano	Bobsleigh	^[45]
64		Chinese: 秘鲁		Ornella Oettl Reyes	Alpine skiing
65		Chinese: 爱尔兰		Elsa Desmond	Luge	^[46]
				Brendan Newby	Freestyle skiing
66		Chinese: 爱沙尼亚		Kelly Sildaru	Freestyle skiing	^[47]
				Martin Himma	Cross-country skiing
67		Chinese: 海地		Richardson Viano	Alpine skiing
68		Chinese: 捷克		Alena Mills	Ice hockey	^[48]
				Michal Březina	Figure skating
69		Chinese: 菲律宾		Asa Miller	Alpine skiing	^[49]
70		Chinese: 斯洛文尼亚		Ilka Štuhec	Alpine skiing	^[50]
				Rok Marguč	Snowboarding
71		Chinese: 斯洛伐克		Marek Hrivik	Ice hockey
				Katarina Simonakova	Luge
72		Chinese: 葡萄牙		Ricardo Brancal	Alpine skiing
				Vanina Guerillot
73		Chinese: 韩国		Kim A-lang^[51]	Short track speed skating	^[52]
				Kwak Yoon-gy
74		Chinese: 黑山		Eldar Salihović	Alpine skiing
				Jelena Vujicic
75		Chinese: 智利		Dominique Ohaco	Freestyle skiing
				Henrik von Appen	Alpine skiing
76		Chinese: 奥地利		Julia Dujmovits	Snowboarding
				Benjamin Maier	Bobsleigh
77		Chinese: 瑞士		Andres Ambühl	Ice hockey	^[53]
				Wendy Holdener	Alpine skiing
78		Chinese: 瑞典		Oliwer Magnusson	Freestyle skiing
				Emma Nordin	Ice hockey
79		Chinese: 蒙古		Ariunsanaagiin Enkhtuul	Cross-country skiing
				Batmönkhiin Achbadrakh
80		Chinese: 新西兰		Alice Robinson	Alpine skiing	^[54]
				Finn Bilous	Freestyle skiing
81		Chinese: 塞尔维亚		Marko Vukićević	Alpine skiing
82		Chinese: 塞浦路斯		Yianno Kouyoumdjian	Alpine skiing
83		Chinese: 墨西哥		Sarah Schleper	Alpine skiing	^[55]
				Donovan Carrillo	Figure skating
84		Chinese: 黎巴嫩		Manon Ouaiss	Alpine skiing
				Cesar Arnouk
85		Chinese: 德国		Francesco Friedrich	Bobsleigh	^[56]
				Claudia Pechstein	Speed skating
86		Chinese: 摩尔多瓦		Doina Descalui	Luge	^[57]
87		Chinese: 摩纳哥		Arnaud Alessandria	Alpine skiing	^[58]
88		Chinese: 摩洛哥		Yassine Aouich	Alpine skiing
89		Chinese: 澳大利亚		Brendan Kerry	Figure skating	^[59]
				Laura Peel	Freestyle skiing
90		Chinese: 意大利		Michela Moioli	Snowboarding	^[60]
91		Chinese: 中国		Zhao Dan	Skeleton	^[61]
				Gao Tingyu	Speed skating

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