2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony flag bearers explained

During the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the flag bearers for the 205 National Olympic Committee's (NOCs) and the IOC Refugee Olympic Team entered Stade de France. The flags of each country were not necessarily carried by the same flag bearer as in the opening ceremony. Like the opening ceremony, each team had an option of having two flag bearers, one man and one woman, to promote gender equality.^[1]

Countries and flagbearers

The following is a list of each country's flag bearer. The list is sorted in the official order of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), even though nations appeared in no particular order in the parade of nations. Names are being given as officially designated by the IOC.^[1]

!Order!Team!French!Flag bearer(s)!Sport(s)!

1		Grèce	Emmanouil Karalis	Athletics	^[2]
			Evangelia Platanioti	Artistic swimming
2		Équipe olympique des réfugiés	Kasra Mehdipournejad	Taekwondo	^[3]
			Farida Abaroge	Athletics
3		Afghanistan	Sha Mahmood Noor Zahi	Athletics
			Yulduz Hashimi	Cycling
4		Afrique du Sud	Tatjana Smith	Swimming
5		Albanie	Islam Dudaev	Wrestling
6		Algérie	Djamel Sedjati	Athletics	^[4]
			Imane Khelif	Boxing
7		Allemagne	Max Rendschmidt	Canoeing	^[5]
			Laura Lindemann	Triathlon
8		Andorre	Nahuel Carabaña	Athletics
9		Angola	Edmilson Pedro	Judo
10		Antigua-et-Barbuda	Cejhae Greene	Athletics
11		Arabie saoudite	Mohammed Tolo	Athletics
			Dunya Abu Taleb	Taekwondo
12		Argentine	José Torres	Cycling
			Eugenia Bosco	Sailing
13		Arménie	Artur Aleksanyan	Wrestling
14		Aruba	Ethan Westera	Sailing
			Shanayah Howell	Cycling
15		Autriche	Lukas Mähr	Sailing	^[6]
			Lara Vadlau
16		Azerbaïdjan	Gashim Magomedov	Taekwondo
			Zeynab Hummatova	Gymnastics
17		Bahamas	Charisma Taylor	Athletics
18		Bahreïn	Akhmed Tazhudinov	Wrestling
19		Bangladesh	Volunteer
20		Barbade	Matthew Wright	Triathlon
21		Belgique	Nafissatou Thiam	Athletics	^[7]
22		Belize	Shaun Gill	Athletics	align=center rowspan=10
23		Bénin	Alexis Dodji Kpade	Swimming
			Noélie Yarigo	Athletics
24		Bermudes	Dara Alizadeh	Rowing
25		Bhoutan	Kinzang Lhamo	Athletics
26		Bolivie	Héctor Garibay	Athletics
			Guadalupe Torrez
27		Bosnie-Herzégovine	Lana Pudar	Swimming
28		Botswana	Letsile Tebogo	Athletics
			Oratile Nowe
29		Brésil	Ana Patrícia Ramos	Volleyball	^[8]
			Eduarda Lisboa
30		Brunéi Darussalam	Hayley Wong	Swimming
31		Bulgarie	Semen Novikov	Wrestling
			Boryana Kaleyn	Gymnastics
32		Burkina Faso	Hugues Fabrice Zango	Athletics
			Marthe Koala
33		Burundi	Ange Ciella Niragira	Judo
34		Cabo Verde	Samuel Freire	Athletics
			Ivanusa Moreira	Boxing
35		Îles Caïmans	Volunteer
36		Cambodge	Chhun Bunthorn	Athletics
			Sakbun Apsara	Swimming
37		Cameroun	Emmanuel Eseme	Athletics
			Richelle Anita Soppi Mbella	Judo
38		Canada	Ethan Katzberg	Athletics	^[9]
			Summer McIntosh	Swimming
39		République centrafricaine	Tracy Marine Andet	Swimming
			Herve Toumandji	Athletics
40		Chili	Fernanda Aguirre	Taekwondo
			Clemente Seguel	Sailing
41		République populaire de Chine	Li Fabin	Weightlifting
			Ou Zixia	Field hockey
42		Chypre	Vera Tugolukova	Gymnastics
43		Colombie	Mariana Pajón	Cycling
44		Comores	Hachim Maaroufou	Athletics
			Maesha Saadi	Swimming
45		Congo	Natacha Ngoye	Athletics
46		République démocratique du Congo	Brigitte Mbabi	Boxing
47		Îles Cook	Lanihei Connolly	Swimming
48		République de Corée	Park Tae-joon	Taekwondo
			Im Ae-ji	Boxing
49		Costa Rica	Gerald Drummond	Athletics
			Milagro Mena	Cycling
50		Côte d'Ivoire	Arthur Cissé	Athletics
			Maboundou Koné
51		Croatie	Ivan Šapina	Taekwondo
			Lena Stojković
52		Cuba	Yarisleidis Cirilo	Canoeing
			Mijaín López	Wrestling
53		Danemark	Turpal Bisultanov	Wrestling	^[10]
			Helena Rosendahl Bach	Swimming
54		Djibouti	Ibrahim Hassan	Athletics
55		République dominicaine	Alexander Ogando	Athletics
			Beatriz Pirón	Weightlifting
56		Dominique	Thea LaFond	Athletics
57		Égypte	Ahmed Elgendy	Modern pentathlon
			Sara Ahmed	Weightlifting
58		El Salvador	Volunteer
59		Émirats arabes unis
60		Équateur	Brian Pintado	Athletics
			Neisi Dajomes	Weightlifting
61		Érythrée	Samson Amare	Athletics
			Dolshi Tesfu
62		Espagne	Jordan Díaz	Athletics	^[11]
			María Pérez
63		Estonie	Janek Õiglane	Athletics
			Reena Pärnat	Archery
64		Eswatini	Sibusiso Matsenjwa	Athletics
65		Éthiopie	Kenenisa Bekele	Athletics
66		Fidji	David Young	Swimming	^[12]
			Venice Traill	Taekwondo
67		Finlande	Saga Vanninen	Athletics
68		Gabon	Wissy Frank Hoye	Athletics
			Noelie Annette Lacour	Swimming
69		Gambie	Alasan Ann	Taekwondo
			Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye	Athletics
70		Géorgie	Geno Petriashvili	Wrestling
71		Ghana	Joseph Paul Amoah	Athletics
			Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah
72		Grande-Bretagne	Alex Yee	Triathlon	^[13]
			Bryony Page	Gymnastics
73		Grenade	Halle Hazzard	Athletics
			Kirani James
74		Guam	Mia-Lahnee Aquino	Wrestling
75		Guatemala	Alberto González Mindez	Athletics
			Adriana Ruano Oliva	Shooting
76		Guinée	Elhadj N'gane Diallo	Swimming
			Fatoumata Sylla	Archery
77		Guinée-Bissau	Diamantino Iuna Fafé	Wrestling
78		Guinée équatoriale	Volunteer
79		Guyana	Emanuel Archibald	Athletics
			Aliyah Abrams
80		Haïti	Cedrick Belony-Duliepre	Boxing
			Emelia Chatfield	Athletics
81		Honduras	Kevin Mejía	Wrestling
			Julimar Ávila	Swimming
82		Hong Kong, Chine	Lo Wai Fung	Taekwondo
			Lee Sze Wing	Cycling
83		Hongrie	Kristóf Milák	Swimming	^[14]
			Tamara Csipes	Canoeing
84		Inde	P. R. Sreejesh	Field hockey	^[15]
			Manu Bhaker	Shooting
85		Indonésie	Rizki Juniansyah	Weightlifting
86		République islamique d'Iran	Arian Salimi	Taekwondo
			Fatemeh Mojallal	Rowing
87		Iraq	Ali Rubaiawi	Weightlifting
88		Irlande	Daniel Wiffen	Swimming	^[16] ^[17]
			Mona McSharry
89		Islande	Erna Sóley Gunnarsdóttir	Athletics
90		Israël	Tom Reuveny	Sailing
			Romi Paritzki	Gymnastics
91		Italie	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Swimming	^[18]
			Rossella Fiamingo	Fencing
92		Jamaïque	Rajindra Campbell	Athletics
93		Japon	Haruka Kitaguchi	Athletics
94		Jordanie	Zaid Kareem	Taekwondo
			Julyana Al-Sadeq
95		Kazakhstan	Batyrkhan Toleugali	Taekwondo
			Elzhana Taniyeva	Gymnastics
96		Kenya	Eliud Kipchoge	Athletics
			Faith Kipyegon
97		Kirghizistan	Akzhol Makhmudov	Wrestling
			Aisuluu Tynybekova
98		Kiribati	Kaimauri Erati	Weightlifting
99		Kosovo	Adell Sabovic	Swimming
			Gresa Bakraçi	Athletics
100		Koweït	Volunteer		^[19]
101		République démocratique populaire lao	Praewa Misato Philaphandeth	Gymnastics
102		Lesotho	Tebello Ramakongoana	Athletics
			Mokulubete Blandina Makatisi
103		Lettonie	Ernests Zēbolds	Cycling
			Gunta Vaičule	Athletics
104		Liban	Laetitia Aoun	Taekwondo
105		Libéria	John Sherman	Athletics
106		Libye	Volunteer
107		Liechtenstein
108		Lituanie	Dominika Banevič	Breaking
109		Luxembourg	Patrizia van der Weken	Athletics	^[20]
110		Macédoine du Nord	Vladimir Egorov	Wrestling
111		Madagascar	Rosina Randafiarison	Weightlifting
112		Malaisie	Ashley Lau	Golf
113		Malawi	Volunteer
114		Maldives	Mohamed Aan Hussain	Swimming	^[21]
			Aishath Ulya Shaig
115		Mali	Alexien Kouma	Swimming
			Marine Camara	Boxing
116		Malte	Katryna Esposito	Judo
117		Maroc	Bilal Mallakh	Breaking
			Oumaima El-Bouchti	Taekwondo
118		Îles Marshall	Philipp Kinono	Swimming
			Mathlynn Sasser	Weightlifting
119		Maurice	Jean de Falbaire	Sailing
120		Mauritanie	Volunteer
121		Mexique	Marco Verde	Boxing	^[22]
			Nuria Diosdado	Artistic swimming
122		États fédérés de Micronésie	Volunteer
123		République de Moldova	Serghei Tarnovschi	Canoeing
			Anastasia Nichita	Wrestling
124		Monaco	Quentin Antognelli	Rowing
			Lisa Pou	Swimming
125		Mongolie		Weightlifting
			Tulga Tumur Ochir	Wrestling
126		Monténégro	Volunteer
127		Mozambique		Boxing
			Deizy Nhaquile	Sailing
128		Myanmar	Phone Pyae Han	Swimming
			Thuzar Thet Htar	Badminton
129		Namibie	Phillip Seidler	Swimming
			Helalia Johannes	Athletics
130		Nauru	Winzar Kakiouea	Athletics
131		Népal	Shantoshi Shrestha	Athletics
132		Nicaragua	María Carmona	Athletics
133		Niger	Abdoul Razak Issoufou	Taekwondo
			Samira Awali Boubacar	Athletics
134		Nigéria	Patience Okon George	Athletics
135		Norvège	Solfrid Koanda	Weightlifting
136		Nouvelle-Zélande	Finn Butcher	Canoeing
			Lisa Carrington
137		Oman	Volunteer
138		Ouganda	Oscar Chelimo	Athletics
			Kathleen Noble	Rowing
139		Ouzbékistan	Ulugbek Rashitov	Taekwondo
140		Pakistan	Faiqa Riaz	Athletics
141		Palaos	Yuri Hosei	Swimming
			Jion Hosei
142		Palestine	Omar Yaser Ismail	Taekwondo
			Valerie Tarazi	Swimming
143		Panama	Arturo Deliser	Athletics
			Atheyna Bylon	Boxing
144		Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée	Kevin Kassman	Taekwondo
			Leonie Beu	Athletics
145		Paraguay	Gabriela Narváez	Judo
146		Pays-Bas	Harrie Lavreysen	Cycling	^[23]
			Femke Bol	Athletics
147		Pérou	Stefano Peschiera	Sailing
			María Belén Bazo
148		Philippines	Carlos Edriel Yulo	Gymnastics
			Aira Villegas	Boxing
149		Pologne	Wiktor Głazunow	Canoeing
			Julia Szeremeta	Boxing
150		Porto Rico	Luis Castro Rivera	Athletics
151		Portugal	Iúri Leitão	Cycling
			Patrícia Sampaio	Judo
152		Qatar	Volunteer
153		République populaire démocratique de Corée	Ri Se-ung	Wrestling
			Kim Mi-rae	Diving
154		Roumanie	Mihaela Valentina Cambei	Weightlifting
155		Rwanda	Oscar Cyusa Peyre Mitilla	Swimming
			Clementine Mukandanga	Athletics
156		Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis	Volunteer
157		Sainte-Lucie	Naquille Harris	Athletics
158		Saint-Marin	Myles Nazem Amine	Wrestling
			Giorgia Cesarini	Archery
159		Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines	Volunteer
160		Îles Salomon	Sharon Firisua	Athletics
161		Samoa	Eroni Leilua	Sailing
			Samalulu Clifton	Canoeing
162		Samoa américaines	Filomenaleonisa Iakopo	Athletics
163		Sao Tomé-et-Principe	Roldeney de Oliveira	Judo
			Gorete Semedo	Athletics
164		Sénégal	Louis François Mendy	Athletics
			Combe Seck	Canoeing
165		Serbie	Damir Mikec	Shooting
			Zorana Arunović
166		Seychelles	Dylan Sicobo	Athletics
167		Sierra Leone	Joshua Wyse	Swimming
168		Singapour	Maximilian Maeder	Sailing
			Stephenie Chen	Canoeing
169		Slovaquie	Tajmuraz Salkazanov	Wrestling
			Viktória Forster	Athletics
170		Slovénie	Toni Vodišek	Sailing
			Pia Babnik	Golf
171		Somalie	Volunteer
172		Soudan	Yaseen Abdalla	Athletics
173		Soudan du Sud	Abraham Guem	Athletics
174		Sri Lanka	Viren Nettasinghe	Badminton
			Dilhani Lekamge	Athletics
175		Suède	Anton Dahlberg	Sailing
			Tara Babulfath	Judo
176		Suisse	Roman Mityukov	Swimming	^[24]
			Julie Derron	Triathlon
177		Suriname	Jaïr Tjon En Fa	Cycling
178		République arabe syrienne	Man Asaad	Weightlifting
179		Tadjikistan	Davlat Boltaev	Boxing
			Munira Abdusalomova	Taekwondo
180		Chinese Taipei	Yang Chun-han	Athletics
			Lin Yu-ting	Boxing
181		République-Unie de Tanzanie	Alphonce Simbu	Athletics
			Jackline Sakilu
182		Tchad	Valentin Betoudji	Athletics
			Demos Memneloum	Judo
183		République tchèque	Martin Fuksa	Canoeing
			Nikola Ogrodníková	Athletics
184		Thaïlande	Weeraphon Wichuma	Weightlifting
			Janjaem Suwannapheng	Boxing
185		République démocratique du Timor-Leste	Manuel Ataide	Athletics
			Ana da Costa da Silva	Taekwondo
186		Togo	Akoko Komlanvi	Rowing
187		Tonga	Maleselo Fufofuka	Athletics
			Feofaaki Epenisa	Boxing
188		Trinité-et-Tobago	Leah Bertrand	Athletics
189		Tunisie	Karem Ben Hnia	Weightlifting
			Marwa Bouzayani	Athletics
190		Türkiye	Taha Akgül	Wrestling
			Buse Naz Çakıroğlu	Boxing
191		Turkménistan	Serdar Rahimov	Judo
192		Tuvalu	Karalo Maibuca	Athletics
			Temalini Manatoa
193		Ukraine	Parviz Nasibov	Wrestling
			Liudmyla Luzan	Canoeing
194		Uruguay	Matías Otero	Canoeing
			Dolores Moreira	Sailing
195		Vanuatu	Hugo Cumbo	Judo
			Priscila Tommy	Table tennis
196		Venezuela	Julio Mayora	Weightlifting
			Anyelin Venegas
197		Îles Vierges américaines	Eduardo Garcia	Athletics
198		Îles Vierges britanniques	Rikkoi Brathwaite	Athletics
199		Viêt-Nam	Volunteer
200		Yémen	Yusuf Marwan Abdullah Nasser	Swimming
			Yasameen Al-Raimi	Shooting
201		Zambie	Muzala Samukonga	Athletics
202		Zimbabwe	Isaac Mpofu	Athletics
			Rutendo Nyahora
203		Australie	Matthew Wearn	Sailing	^[25]
			Kaylee McKeown	Swimming
204		États-Unis d'Amérique	Nick Mead	Rowing	^[26]
			Katie Ledecky	Swimming
205		France	Antoine Dupont	Rugby	^[27]
			Pauline Ferrand-Prévot	Cycling

Notes and References

1. Web site: De Villiers. Ockert. Paris 2024 Olympics: The list of flagbearers at Sunday's Closing Ceremony. Paris 2024. International Olympic Committee. 2024-08-08. 2024-08-10.
2. Web site: 2024-08-11. Karalis and Platanioti named Greece's closing ceremony flag bearers. 2024-08-11. eKathimerini.com.
3. Web site: August 10, 2024. Farida Abaroge and Kasra Mehdipournejad: meet the flagbearers of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team at the Paris 2024 Closing Ceremony. International Olympic Committee.
4. Web site: 2024-08-11. Boxers Khelif und Lin to carry national flags at closing ceremony. 2024-08-11. Yahoo! Sports. Yahoo!. en-US.
5. Web site: Hofmann. Hanna. 2024-08-10. Lindemann and Rendschmidt carry the flag at the closing ceremony. 2024-08-11. ASB Zeitung. en.
6. Web site: Gold-Duo trägt Fahne bei Olympia-Abschlussfeier . 2024-08-11 . 2024-08-11 . de-AT . Laola1.
7. Web site: 2024-08-11. Nafi Thiam portera le drapeau belge lors de la cérémonie de clôture. 2024-08-11. Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee. fr.
8. Web site: 2024-08-10. Duda e Ana Patrícia serão as porta-bandeiras do Brasil na Cerimônia de Encerramento dos Jogos Paris 2024. 2024-08-11. Brazilian Olympic Committee. pt-br.
9. News: Lowrie. Morgan. Summer McIntosh, Ethan Katzberg named flag-bearers. Canadian Press. 11 August 2024. Global News. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 11 August 2024.
10. Web site: Bryder og svømmer er danske fanebærere til OL-afslutningsceremonien. National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark. da. 2024-08-11. 2024-08-12.
11. Web site: Williams. George. 2024-08-10. Maria Perez and Jordan Diaz, flag bearers for Spain at the closing ceremony of Paris 2024. 2024-08-11. Sports Finding. en-GB.
12. Web site: Sauqaqa. Venina. 2024-08-11. David Young and Venice Traill to be flagbearers at the Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony. 2024-08-11. Fiji One News. en-US.
13. Web site: Bryony Page and Alex Yee MBE named as closing ceremony flagbearers. British Olympic Committee. 2024-08-11. 2024-08-11. en-gb.
14. Web site: 2024-08-11. Csipes Tamara és Milák Kristóf a zászlóvivő a párizsi záróeseményen. 2024-08-11. Hungarian Olympic Committee. hu.
15. Web site: Peesara. Anuraag. PR Sreejesh gets Neeraj Chopra's nod to join Manu Bhaker as flag-bearer for Closing Ceremony. Paris 2024. International Olympic Committee. 2024-08-09. 2024-08-10.
16. Web site: Harralson. Dan. Lady Vol Mona McSharry to carry flag at Paris Olympics closing ceremony. Volswire. 2024-08-10. 2024-08-10.
17. Web site: 2024-08-12 . 2024-08-12 . de-AT . Spital statt Feier! Drama um Irlands Fahnenträger . Kronen Zeitung.
18. Web site: Paltrinieri e Fiamingo portabandiera azzurri nella Cerimonia di chiusura. La Gazzetta dello Sport. it. 2024-08-10. 2024-08-10.
19. Web site: Braidwood. Jamie. Every Olympic flagbearer for Paris 2024 closing ceremony including Alex Yee and Katie Ledecky. The Independent. 11 August 2024. 11 August 2024.
20. Web site: 2024-08-11 . On Sunday evening: Patrizia van der Weken to carry Luxembourg flag at Olympics closing ceremony . 2024-08-11 . RTL Today . . en.
21. Web site: Pelshaw. Anya. 2024-08-11. Tatjana Smith Highlights Latest Swimmers Announced As Closing Ceremony Flag Bearers. 2024-08-11. SwimSwam. en-US.
22. Web site: Cavanna. Joaquín. 11 August 2024. Los abanderados de México en la Ceremonia de Clausura de París 2024: Nuria Diosdado y Marco Verde. 11 August 2024. International Olympic Committee. es.
23. Web site: Verenigde Staten wint medailleklassement • Sluitingsceremonie met vlaggendragers Bol & Lavreysen. nl. NOS Sport. NOS. 11 August 2024. 11 August 2024.
24. Web site: 2024-08-11. Derron and Mityukov carry the Swiss flag. 2024-08-11. Blue News. Swisscom. en.
25. Web site: Pugmire. Jerome. Swim stars Marchand, Ledecky set to be flag-bearers at the closing ceremony for the Paris Olympics. Associated Press. 2024-08-10. 2024-08-10.
26. Web site: Katie Ledecky and Nick Mead to be Team USA's Closing Ceremony flag bearers. NBC New York. NBC. 2024-08-08. 2024-08-10.
27. Web site: Antoine Dupont sera le deuxième porte-drapeau de la France avec Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt pour la cérémonie de clôture des JO. fr. L'Équipe. 2024-08-11. 2024-08-11.