Noc: | IOP, IOA, OAR |
Games: | Olympics |
Summerappearances: | Independent Olympic participants (1992) Individual Olympic athletes (2000) Independent Olympic athletes (2012) Independent Olympic athletes (2016) |
Winterappearances: | Independent Olympic Participants (2014) |
This is a list of flag bearers who have competed as individual Olympic athletes at the Olympics.[1]
Flag bearers carry the Olympic Flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
Event year | Season | Flag bearer | Sport | Nationality[2] | Notes |
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Winter | ? | [3] | |||
Summer | Distance running | [4] Refugee Olympian Team (ROT) ; UNHCR identified refugees selected by the IOC.[5] The Flag Bearer from South Sudan was certified by the Kenyan NOC | |||
Summer | ? | Independent Olympian team (IOA) ; IOC allowed competitors separate from their nationalities. The Kuwaiti NOC was barred from 2016, leaving their Olympians to compete independently, along with other independents. The Kuwaiti flag bearer Fehaid al-Deehani did not carry the Olympic Flag.[6] [7] [8] | |||
Winter | ? | [9] | |||
Summer | (from LOCOG) | United Kingdom not a competitor | [10] | ||
Summer | Boxing | [11] | |||
Summer | none | colspan=2 | Athletes from Independent Olympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics did not attend the parade of nations, but still competed at the Games.[12] | ||