This is a list of International Olympic Committee (IOC) country codes.
There are 206 current NOCs (National Olympic Committees) within the Olympic Movement. The following tables show the currently used code for each NOC and any different codes used in past Games, per the official reports from those Games. Some of the past code usage is further explained in the following sections. Codes used specifically for a Summer Games only or a Winter Games only, within the same year, are indicated by "S" and "W" respectively.
Most National Paralympic Committees (NPC) cover a territory with an active NOC. In these cases the NPC codes matches the IOC codes shown above. The two current NPCs without a corresponding NOC use the following NPC codes.
| Code | National Paralympic Committee | Link | |
|---|---|---|---|
| , China | Associação Recreativa dos Deficientes de Macau | ||
| The Faroese Sport Organisation for Disabled |
Fourteen historical NOCs or teams have codes that are still used in the IOC results database[3] to refer to past medal winners from these teams.
| Code | Nation/Team | Other codes used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| code from French Antilles hollandaises | |||
| Also AUA | |||
| code taken from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne | |||
| code from the French Équipe unifiée or Spanish Equipo Unificado | |||
| code FRG taken from Federal Republic of Germany | |||
| ODE (1968 S) from German Ostdeutschland code GDR taken from German Democratic Republic | |||
| code from Serbian Србија и Црна Гора / Srbija i Crna Gora | |||
| code taken from French Tchécoslovaquie | |||
| SOV (1968 W) code from French Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques (URSS) | |||
| Code of the State of Vietnam and then Republic of Vietnam from 1952 to 1975.[4] [5] [6] | |||
Unlike the previous list, these codes no longer appear in the IOC results database. When a past athlete from one of these teams has won a medal, the new code is shown next to them instead.
| Code | Nation (NOC) | Years | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
From French Birmanie | 1948–1988 | Now | ||
| 1948–1972 | Now | |||
| 1964–1976 | Now | |||
| 1948–1964 | Now . The code former GUI has been reassigned to in 1965 when its new NOC was recognized by the IOC and used publicly in their first competed games in 1968. All formerly known by BGU | |||
From French Honduras britannique | 1968–1972 | Now | ||
code from French Indes orientales hollandaises | 1934–1938 | Now | ||
From French République khmère | 1972 | Now | ||
From French Malaisie | 1956–1960 | Competed independently before the formation of Malaysia in 1963. Now | ||
| 1956 | ||||
| 1964 | Now | |||
code from French République arabe unie | 1960 | Now and | ||
also Southern Rhodesia and Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until it became Zimbabwe in 1980 | 1960–1972 | Now | ||
| 1932–1976 | Medal winners from 1948 and earlier display as, while medal winners from after 1948 display as under which the team now competes. | |||
| 1952 | Competed independently before rejoining in 1957 | |||
| 1964–1968 | Now | |||
| 1972–1984 | Now | |||
| 1984–1996 | Now | |||
code from Yemen Arab Republic | 1984–1988 | Competed independently before Yemeni unification in 1990. Now | ||
code from Yemen Democratic Republic | 1988 | |||
From French Zaïre | 1972–1996 | Now | ||
Two other significant code changes have occurred, both because of a change in the nation's designation as used by the IOC:
| Code | Nation/team | Years | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
from French Athlètes Individuels Neutres | 2024 | Used for Russian and Belarusian athletes competing as neutrals due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The delegation will use a flag and a one-off instrumental anthem assigned by the IOC. | ||
| 1908–1912 | Used in the IOC's medal database to identify the team from Australasia, composed of athletes from both Australia and New Zealand for the 1908 and 1912 Games. Both nations competed separately by 1920. | |||
from French Corée | 2018 | Used for the unified Korean women's ice hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[7] | ||
from French Équipe olympique des réfugiés | 2020–2024 | Used for the IOC Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics for athletes to compete who have been displaced from their home countries. The IOC code was changed from ROT which was used in 2016. | ||
from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne | 1956–1964 | Used in the IOC's medal database to identify the United Team of Germany, composed of athletes representing the NOCs of both East Germany and West Germany for the 1956–1964 Games. The team was simply known as Germany in the official reports for those six games at the time. | ||
from French Équipe unifiée | 1992 | Used in 1992 (both Summer and Winter Games) for the Unified Team, composed of athletes from most of the former Soviet republics that chose to compete as a unified team. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania entered separately in 1992, whereas Russia and eleven other post-Soviet nations competed independently for the first time in 1994 or 1996. | ||
| Used for independent Olympic participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a designation used for athletes from FR Yugoslavia who could not compete as a team due to United Nations sanctions. At the 1992 Summer Olympics IOP was used as a designation for athletes from the Republic of Macedonia too. IOP was also used during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi by Indian athletes due to the Indian Olympic Association suspension. | ||||
| Used for Individual Olympic Athletes in 2000,[8] a designation used for athletes from Timor-Leste before the formation of its NOC. IOA was used again in the 2012 Games, when it stood for Independent Olympic Athletes,[9] comprising athletes from the former Netherlands Antilles and a runner from South Sudan. The Netherlands Antilles Olympic Committee's membership from the IOC was withdrawn the previous year, and South Sudan had not yet formed an NOC at the time. IOA was used again in 2016 for athletes from Kuwait as a result of the suspension of its National Olympic Committee.[10] | ||||
| 2010–2012 | Used as the country code for Athletes from Kuwait, when the Kuwait Olympic Committee was suspended the first time, at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the 2010 Asian Games and the 2011 Asian Winter Games; for the second suspension in 2015–2017, athletes from Kuwait were also competing in several international competitions under the IOC flag, but this time in the team of Individual Olympic Athletes (IOA), including (but not only) in the 2016 Summer Olympics. | |||
| 2010– | Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics.[11] [12] | |||
| 2018 | Used for Olympic Athletes from Russia competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.[13] | |||
| ROC from the abbreviation for Russian Olympic Committee | 2020–2022 | Used for Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics following the sanctions due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.[14] [15] The delegation used a flag depicting the logo of the Russian Olympic Committee. | ||
| 2016 | Used for the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics for athletes to compete who have been displaced from their home countries.[16] | |||
| 1896–1904 | Used in the IOC's medal database to identify medals won by mixed teams of athletes from multiple nations (such as the combination of France and Great Britain, for example), a situation that happened several times in the Games of 1896, 1900, and 1904. |
| Code | Nation/Team | Years | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Used for Independent Paralympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Paralympics as a designation used for athletes from FR Yugoslavia and Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia who could not compete as a team due to United Nations sanctions. | |||
| De facto independent East Timor was not yet recognised as a sovereign state, and did not have a recognised National Paralympic Committee. Two athletes from the country gained the opportunity to in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, but they competed officially as Individual Paralympic Athletes, rather than as representatives of an NPC. | ||||
| A team consisting of refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro as Independent Paralympic Athletes. | ||||
| Used in 2018 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Was to be used in 2022 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine,[17] however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the 2022 Games. Used again in the 2024 Summer Paralympics for both Russian and Belarusian athletes. In 2024, the designation was banned from using the Paralympic flag and instead used a white flag with black letters displaying "NPA" (but still used the Paralympic Anthem).[18] | ||||
| Paralympic Neutral Athletes | – | Was to be used for Belarusian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, however the Belarusian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the 2022 Winter Paralympics and the code was not used. | ||
| RPC from the abbreviation for Russian Paralympic Committee | Used for Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics following the sanctions due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. The delegation used a flag with an altered emblem of the Russian Paralympic Committee (the original emblem being banned due to containing the flag of Russia). Was to be used in 2022 as well, however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. | |||
| 2020 |
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