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The following is a list of recipients of the Paralympic Order.

The Paralympic Order is the highest award of the Paralympic Movement, since 1994. The recipients get a medal with the IPC logo on it. The Paralympic Order is awarded to individuals for particularly distinguished contribution to the Paralympic Movement.

Before 2003, the Paralympic Order was given out in three categories: Gold, Silver and Bronze.

Recipients

1990s

Year	Name	Title	NPC	Lvl.
1994	Gerhard Heiberg	President of the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympic Games Organizing Committee and (LOCOG) Lillehammer 1994 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (LPOC)	Norway
	John Magdal	Managing director of LPOC	Norway
	Lill-Unni Østern	Office Manager of LPOC	Norway
	Rolf Jenssen	Venues Consultant of LPOC	Norway
1996	Juan Antonio Samaranch	President of the International Olympic Committee IOC	Spain
	Andrew Fleming	President of the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (APOC)	United States
1998	Goro Yoshimura	President of the Nagano 1998 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (NAPOC)	Japan
	Tasuku Tsukada	Mayor of Nagano	Japan
	Yoshifumi Ihara	Deputy Secretary General of NAPOC	Japan
1999	Joan Scruton	Past Secretary General of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF)	Great Britain

2000s

Year	Name	Title	NPC	Lvl.
2000	John Grant	President of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (SPOC)	Australia
2001	Robert Steadward	First President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC)	Canada
	Michael Riding	Past IPC Medical Officer
	André Auberger	Past IPC Treasurer
	Elisabeth Dendy	Past President of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA)	Great Britain
	Lina Faria	Past President of CPISRA
	Enrique Sanz	Past President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA)
	Guillermo Cabezas	Past President of the International Sports Organization for the Disabled (ISOD)
	Harry Fang	Founding Father of the Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled (FESPIC)	China
	Walter Tröger	International Olympic Committee (IOC) Delegate Member for Disabled Sport
	George Dunstan	Past International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Regional Representative South Pacific	Australia
	Gilbert Felli	IOC Sports Director
2002	Bob Garff	Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Salt Lake 2002 Organizing Committee (SLOC)
	Mitt Romney	Chief executive Officer and President of SLOC	United States
	Fraser Bullock	Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of SLOC	United States
	Bob McCullough	Past president of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF)	Australia
	Gudrun Doll-Tepper	Past IPC chairperson of the science committee and president of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE)
	Gertrude Krombholz	Past IPC chairperson Wheelchair Dance Sport
	Hans Lindström	Past IPC technical officer and regional representative Europe
2003	Yasuhiro Hatsuyama	Former IPC Executive Committee member and East Asia Representative
	Colin Rains	President of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA)
	Hector Ramirez	Past President of the Pan American Wheelchair Sport Federation, President of the Argentine Paralympic Committee (COPAR)
	Donald Royer	President of the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association
	Jean Stone	Technical Secretary to the IPC Sports Council, Women in Sport Committee
	Carl Wang	Chairperson of the Norwegian Sports Organization for the Disabled and President of the European Paralympic Committee	Norway
	Xavier Gonzalez	Paralympic Games Liaison Director and interim COO
2004	Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki	President of the Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (ATHOC)	Greece
	Ioannis Spanudakis	Managing director of ATHOC
	Ioanna Karyofylli	General Manager of ATHOC
	Ludwig Guttmann	Pioneer of sport for persons with a disability and founder of the Paralympic Movement	Germany
	Organizacion Nacional de Ciegos (ONCE)	For their involvement in the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, their support of the Paralympic Movement in Spain and their contributions to the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA)	Spain
2005	Jack Benedick	Former athlete; World Championship and Paralympic Games Technical Delegate. Chairperson of IPC Alpine Skiing. Board of Directors of the US Ski and Snowboard Association
	Birgitta Blomquist	Past representative to a variety of sport federations (Swimming Committee Chairperson 1984-1992 and Wintersport Committee Chairperson 1986–1992)
	Chris Cohen	Chairperson of the IPC Athletics Executive Committee
	Leen Coudenys	IPC Executive Assistant
	Ian Harrison, MBE	President of the International Foundation for Disabled Sailing (IFDS)
	Robert Jackson	Past director, vice-president and president of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation from 1972 until 1984
	Carol Mushett	Past IPC Technical Officer of the IPC Executive Committee
	Enrique Perez	Past President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) and President of the World Blind Union
	Deng Pufang	President of the National Paralympic Committee of China, the China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF) and Executive President of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee (BOCOG)	China
	Albert Tricot	Founder of the Belgian Paralympic Committee
	Whang Youn Dai	Vice-president of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled (KOSAD) and founder of the ‘Whang Youn Dai Prize’
2006	York Chow	Member of the international task force that formed the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in 1989; former Vice President Policy and Planning on the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board until 2005
	Giuseppe Ferrari	Secretary General of the Organizing Committee for the Paralympic Winter Games of Torino 2006 (ComParTo)
	Björn Hedman	Current member of the IPC Medical and Anti-Doping Committee; IPC Medical Officer and member of the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board (2001 to 2005)
	Fred Jansen	Current Chairperson of the IPC Sports Council; former member of the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board (1998 to 2005). Co-opted as a member of the IPC GB in March 2006
	Tiziana Nasi	President of the Organizing Committee for the Paralympic Winter Games of Torino 2006 (ComParTo)
	Juan Palau	Former President of the International Sports Organisation for the Disabled (ISOD) and IOSD Representative on the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board from (1993 to 2005)
	Bob Price	Former Chairperson of the British Paralympic Association. President of the European Paralympic Committee (2001 to 2005) and former member of the IPC Executive Committee/ Governing Board (2001 to 2005)
	François Terranova	Former Chairperson of the Paralympic Games Liaison Committee since 1997; former Vice President of Paralympic Games on the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board (1997 to 2005)
	Cesare Vaciago	Chief executive Officer of the Organizing Committee for the XX Olympic Winter Games (TOROC)
2007	Silas Chiang	Former Secretary General of the Hong Kong Disabled Sports Association and involved in the organization of the FESPIC Games for over 25 years
	Spyros Stavrianopoulos	First president of the Hellenic Paralympic Committee and promoter of sports for persons with a disability in Greece.
2008	Liu Qi	Former mayor of Beijing,resident of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee (BOCOG), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the CPC Beijing Committee
	Hui Liangyu	Vice Premier of the State Council, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee
	Liu Yandong	Vice-president of BOCOG, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor
	Chen Zhili	Vice-president of BOCOG, Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
	Deng Pufang	President of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF), Executive President of BOCOG, Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)
	Liu Peng	Executive President of BOCOG, Minister of the General Administration of Sport of China, President of the Chinese Olympic Committee
	Guo Jinlong	Mayor of Beijing, Executive President of BOCOG	China
	Tang Xiaoquan	President of the Executive Board and Vice President of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, Executive Vice President of BOCOG
	Zhao Wenshi	Deputy of Paralympic Games Command Center, Vice Chairperson of CPPCC Beijing Committee
	Manolo Romero	Managing director of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS)
	Anne Ebbs	Former Secretary General of the Paralympic Council of Ireland (PCI)
2009	Valeriy Sushkevych	President of the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine
	Maura Strange	Executive Director and Secretary General of the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS)
	Pol Wautermartens	Former Chairperson of the IPC Powerlifting Sport Technical Committee
	Tony Sainsbury	Former Vice-President of IWBF Europe and five-time Chef de Mission of the British Team for the Paralympics
	Jerry Johnston	Founder of the Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing (CADS)
	Jens Bromann	Former President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA)
	Bob Fisher	Former Chairperson of the Football 7-a-Side Committee of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA)

2010s

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2020s

See also

• List of recipients of the Olympic Order

References

1. The Paralympian - Issue 1/2010 Archived 2010-06-19 at the Wayback Machine, The Paralympian page 14, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
2. Paralympic Order, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
3. China's Deng Pufang wins IPC top award, Official Website of the Chinese Olympic Committee, November 21, 2005
4. ^ Paralympic Family Members Decorated with Medals Archived 2010-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, The Paralympian No. 2 / 2002
5. 1996 ATLANTA PARALYMPIC GAMES - Final look: Record-breaking international competition, The Atlanta Journal, August 26, 1996
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