List of standard bearers for the 2014 Winter Olympics

The German team at the opening ceremony

The list of flag bearers for the 2014 Olympic Games includes the flag bearers for both the opening ceremony on February 7 and the closing ceremony on February 23.

When the nations marched in, athletes from all participating countries moved into the Sochi Olympic Stadium . At the opening ceremony, the individual teams were led by a flag bearer from the ranks of their athletes or officials, who was determined either by their respective National Olympic Committee (NOK) or by the athletes themselves. At the closing ceremony, the flag bearers walked separately in front of all other athletes who formed a common field without distinguishing between nationalities.

sequence

The Greek team has traditionally been given the front seat, a special status that stems from the hosting of the ancient and first modern games in Greece . The host nation Russia was the last to invade. The athletes from the other countries entered the stadium in alphabetical order in the language of the host nation, in this case Russian . This order corresponds to both the tradition and the statutes of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

List of standard bearers

Below is a list of the flag bearers of the opening and closing ceremonies of all participating nations, sorted according to the order of their invasion. The list can also be sorted according to their state name, team abbreviation, number of athletes, the surname of the flag bearer and their sport.

According to nations

#	National team	Abbreviation	Athletes	Opening ceremony		Closing ceremony
				Standard bearer	sport	Standard bearer	sport
1	Greece	GRE	7th	Panagiota Tsakiri	Cross-country skiing	Alexandros Kefalas	skeleton
2	Australia	OUT	60	Alex Pullin	Snowboard	David Morris	Freestyle skiing
3	Austria	AUT	130	Mario Stecher	Nordic combination	Julia Dujmovits	Snowboard
4th	Azerbaijan	AZE	4th	Rahman Khalilov	Official	Alexei Sitnikov	figure skating
5	Albania	ALB	2	Erjon Tola	Alpine skiing	Suela Mëhilli	Alpine skiing
6th	Andorra	AND	6th	Mireia Gutiérrez	Alpine skiing	Laure Soulie	biathlon
7th	Argentina	ARG	7th	Cristian Simari Birkner	Alpine skiing	Sebastiano Gastaldi	Alpine skiing
8th	Armenia	POOR	4th	Sergei Mikayelyan	Cross-country skiing	Arman Serebrakian	Alpine skiing
9	British Virgin Islands	IVB	1	Peter Crook	Freestyle skiing	Peter Crook	Freestyle skiing
10	Belarus	BLR	26th	Alyaksey Hryschyn	Freestyle skiing	Darja Domratschawa	biathlon
11	Belgium	BEL	7th	Hanna Mariën	bob	Beard swings	Speed ​​skating
12	Bermuda	BER	1	Tucker Murphy	Cross-country skiing	Volunteer
13	Bulgaria	BUL	18th	Maria Kirkova	Alpine skiing	Nikola Tschongarow	Alpine skiing
14th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	5	Žana Novaković	Alpine skiing	Žana Novaković	Alpine skiing
15th	Brazil	BRA	13	Jaqueline Mourão	Biathlon cross-country skiing	Isadora Williams	figure skating
16	Macedonia	MKD	3	Darko Damjanovski	Cross-country skiing	Volunteer
17th	Great Britain	GBR	56	Jon Eley	Short track	Elizabeth Yarnold	skeleton
18th	Hungary	HUN	16	Bernadett Heidum	Short track	Szandra Lajtos	Short track
19th	Venezuela	VEN	1	Antonio José Pardo Andretta	Alpine skiing	Antonio José Pardo Andretta	Alpine skiing
20th	American Virgin Islands	ISV	1	Jasmine Campbell	Alpine skiing	Jasmine Campbell	Alpine skiing
21st	Germany	GER	153	Maria Höfl-Riesch	Alpine skiing	Felix Hole	Luge
22nd	Hong Kong	HKG	1	Barton Lui Pan-to	Short track	Volunteer
23	Georgia	GEO	4th	Nino Tsiklauri	Alpine skiing	Elene Gedevanishvili	figure skating
24	Denmark	THE	12	Lene Nielsen	Curling	Martin Møller	Cross-country skiing
25th	Dominica	DMA	2	Gary di Silvestri	Cross-country skiing	Gary di Silvestri	Cross-country skiing
26th	Zimbabwe	ZIM	1	Luke Steyn	Alpine skiing	Luke Steyn	Alpine skiing
27	Israel	ISR	5	Vladislav Bykanov	Short track	Vladislav Bykanov	Short track
28	Iran	IRI	5	Hossein Saveh-Shemshaki	Alpine skiing	Mohammad Kiadarbandsari	Alpine skiing
29	Ireland	IRL	5	Conor Lyne	Alpine skiing	Seamus O'Connor	Snowboard
30th	Iceland	ISL	5	Sævar Birgisson	Cross-country skiing	Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir	Alpine skiing
31	Spain	ESP	20th	Javier Fernández López	figure skating	Laura Orgué	Cross-country skiing
32	Italy	ITA	113	Armin Zöggeler	Luge	Arianna Fontana	Short track
33	Kazakhstan	KAZ	51	Jerdos Akhmadiev	Cross-country skiing	Jerdos Akhmadiev	Cross-country skiing
34	Cayman Islands	CAY	1	Dow Travers	Alpine skiing	Dow Travers	Alpine skiing
35	Canada	CAN	220	Hayley Wickenheiser	ice Hockey	Kaillie Humphries Heather Moyse	bob
36	Cyprus	CYP	2	Constantinos Papamichael	Alpine skiing	Alexandra Taylor	Alpine skiing
37	Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	1	Dmitri Trelewski	Alpine skiing	Yevgeny Timofeev	Alpine skiing
38	People's Republic of China	CHN	65	Tong Jian	figure skating	Liu Qiuhong	Short track
39	Latvia	LAT	57	Sandis Ozoliņš	ice Hockey	Daumants Dreiškens	bob
40	Lebanon	LIB	2	Alexandre Mohbat	Alpine skiing	Jackie Chamoun	Alpine skiing
41	Lithuania	LTU	9	Deividas Stagniūnas	figure skating	Agnė Sereikaitė	Short track
42	Liechtenstein	LIE	4th	Tina Weirather	Alpine skiing	Volunteer
43	Luxembourg	LUX	1	Kari Peters	Cross-country skiing	Volunteer
44	Malta	MLT	1	Élise Pellegrin	Alpine skiing	Élise Pellegrin	Alpine skiing
45	Morocco	MAR	2	Adam Lamhamedi	Alpine skiing	Adam Lamhamedi	Alpine skiing
46	Mexico	MEX	1	Hubertus of Hohenlohe	Alpine skiing	Hubertus of Hohenlohe	Alpine skiing
47	Moldova	MDA	4th	Victor Pînzaru	Cross-country skiing	Victor Pinzaru	Cross-country skiing
48	Monaco	MON	5	Olivier Jenot	Alpine skiing	Rudy Rinaldi	bob
49	Mongolia	MGL	2	Boldyn Bjambadorj	Cross-country skiing	Tschinbatyn Otgontsetseg	Cross-country skiing
50	Independent Olympian / India *	IOP / IND	3	Volunteer		Himanshu Thakur	Alpine skiing
51	Nepal	NEP	1	Dachhiri Sherpa	Cross-country skiing	Dachhiri Sherpa	Cross-country skiing
52	Netherlands	NED	41	Jorien ter Mors	Short track	Bob de Jong	Speed ​​skating
53	New Zealand	NZL	15th	Shane Dobbin	Speed ​​skating	Josiah Wells	Freestyle skiing
54	Norway	NOR	119	Aksel Lund Svindal	Alpine skiing	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	biathlon
55	Pakistan	PAH	1	Muhammad Karim	Alpine skiing	Muhammad Karim	Alpine skiing
56	Paraguay	PAR	1	Julia Marino	Freestyle skiing	Volunteer
57	Peru	BY	3	Roberto Carcelen	Cross-country skiing	Roberto Carcelen	Cross-country skiing
58	Poland	POLE	59	Dawid Kupczyk	bob	Zbigniew Bródka	Speed ​​skating
59	Portugal	POR	2	Arthur Hanse	Alpine skiing	Camille Dias	Alpine skiing
60	South Korea	COR	71	Lee Kyu-hyeok	Speed ​​skating	Lee Kyu-hyeok	Speed ​​skating
61	Romania	ROU	23	Éva Tófalvi	biathlon	Éva Tófalvi	biathlon
62	San Marino	SMR	2	Vincenzo Michelotti	Alpine skiing	Federica Selva	Alpine skiing
63	Serbia	SRB	8th	Milanko Petrovic	Biathlon cross-country skiing	Nevena Ignjatović	Alpine skiing
64	Slovakia	SVK	63	Zdeno Chára	ice Hockey	Anastasiya Kuzmina	biathlon
65	Slovenia	SLO	67	Tomaž Razingar	ice Hockey	Žan Košir	Snowboard
66	United States	United States	230	Todd Lodwick	Nordic combination	Julie Chu	ice Hockey
67	Tajikistan	TJK	1	Alisher Qudratov	Alpine skiing	Alisher Qudratov	Alpine skiing
68	Thailand	THA	2	Kanes Sucharitakul	Alpine skiing	Kanes Sucharitakul	Alpine skiing
69	Chinese Taipei	TPE	3	Sung Ching-yang	Speed ​​skating	Mackenzie Blackburn	Short track
70	East Timor	TLS	1	Yohan Goutt Goncalves	Alpine skiing	Yohan Goutt Goncalves	Alpine skiing
71	Togo	TOG	2	Mathilde-Amivi Petitjean	Cross-country skiing	Alessia Afi Dipole	Alpine skiing
72	Tonga	TGA	1	Bruno Banani	Luge	Bruno Banani	Luge
73	Turkey	DOOR	6th	Alper Uçar	figure skating	Tuğba Kocağa	Alpine skiing
74	Uzbekistan	UZB	3	Xenia Grigoreeva	Alpine skiing	Xenia Grigoreeva	Alpine skiing
75	Ukraine	UKR	43	Valentyna Shevchenko	Cross-country skiing	Wita Semerenko	biathlon
76	Philippines	PHI	1	Michael Christian Martinez	figure skating	Volunteer
77	Finland	FIN	104	Enni Rukajärvi	Snowboard	Iivo Niskanen	Cross-country skiing
78	France	FRA	114	Jason Lamy Chappuis	Nordic combination	Martin Fourcade	biathlon
79	Croatia	CRO	11	Ivica Kostelić	Alpine skiing	Vedrana Malec	Cross-country skiing
80	Montenegro	MNE	2	Tarik Hadžić	Alpine skiing	Volunteer
81	Czech Republic	CZE	89	Šárka Strachová	Alpine skiing	Ondřej Moravec	biathlon
82	Chile	CHI	6th	Dominique Ohaco	Freestyle skiing	Yonathan Fernández	Cross-country skiing
83	Switzerland	SUI	163	Simon Ammann	Ski jumping	Patrizia grief	Snowboard
84	Sweden	SWE	111	Södergren is different	Cross-country skiing	Charlotte Kalla	Cross-country skiing
85	Estonia	EST	25th	Indrek Tobreluts	biathlon	Karel Tammjärv	Cross-country skiing
86	Jamaica	JAM	3	Marvin Dixon	bob	Volunteer
87	Japan	JPN	113	Ayumi Ogasawara	Curling	Ayumi Ogasawara	Curling
88	Russia	RUS	226	Alexander Zubkov	bob	Maxim Trankov	figure skating

^*The Indian athletes arrived at the opening ceremony as Independent Olympic Participants because the National Olympic Committee of India had been suspended by the International Olympic Committee since December 2012 for failure to comply with IOC guidelines for its upcoming election as an official, and had not held it until the start of the 2014 Winter Games. From February 11, they competed under the Indian flag and represented India at the closing ceremony.

According to sports

Serbia and Brazil had a flag bearer at the opening ceremony, who competed in both biathlon and cross-country skiing.

sport	Opening ceremony	number	Closing ceremony	number
biathlon		4th		8th
Bobsleigh		4th		3
Curling		2		1
ice Hockey		4th		1
figure skating		5		4th
Speed ​​skating		3		4th
Freestyle skiing		4th		3
Nordic combination		3	-	0
Luge		2		2
Short track		5		6th
skeleton	-	0		2
Alpine skiing		32		28
Cross-country skiing		17th		13
Ski jumping		1	-	0
Snowboard		2		3
Volunteer		1		9
Official		1	-	0

Web links

• List of flag bearers of the closing ceremony (English)