List of standard bearers for the 2018 Winter Olympics

The list of flag bearers for the 2018 Olympic Games includes the flag bearers for both the opening ceremony on February 9 and the closing ceremony on February 25.

When the nations marched in , athletes from all participating countries moved into the PyeongChang 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 is traditionally given the place in the forefront, a special status that stems from the hosting of the ancient and first modern games in Greece . The host nation South Korea marched together with North Korea under the common Korean flag. The athletes from the other countries enter the stadium in alphabetical order in the language of the host nation, in this case Korean . This order corresponds to both the tradition and the statutes of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Contrary to the alphabetical order, Israel stepped behind Italy rather than behind Iran because of its hostile relations with Iran.

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

sequence	National team	Team abbreviation	Number of athletes	Flag bearer of the opening ceremony	Sport of the standard bearer	Flag bearer of the closing ceremony	Sport of the standard bearer
1	Greece	GRE	4th	Sophia Ralli	Alpine skiing	Ioannis Antoniou	Alpine skiing
2	Ghana	GHA	1	Akwasi Frimpong	skeleton	Akwasi Frimpong	skeleton
3	Nigeria	NGR	3	Ngozi Onwumere	bob	Simidele Adeagbo	skeleton
4th	South Africa	RSA	1	Connor Wilson	Alpine skiing	Connor Wilson	Alpine skiing
5	Netherlands	NED	34	Jan Smeekens	Speed ​​skating	Ireen Wüst	Speed ​​skating
6th	Norway	NOR	109	Emil Hegle Svendsen	biathlon	Marit Bjørgen	Cross-country skiing
7th	New Zealand	NZL	21st	Beau-James Wells	Freestyle skiing	Zoi Sadowski-Synnott	Snowboard
8th	Denmark	THE	17th	Elena Møller Rigas	Speed ​​skating	Viktor Hald Thorup	Speed ​​skating
9	Germany	GER	156	Eric Frenzel	Nordic combination	Christian Ehrhoff	ice Hockey
10	East Timor	TLS	1	Yohan Goutt Goncalves	Alpine skiing	Yohan Goutt Goncalves	Alpine skiing
11	Latvia	LAT	34	Daumants Dreiškens	bob	Haralds Silovs	Short track
12	Lebanon	LBN	3	Samer Tawk	Cross-country skiing	Volunteer
13	Romania	ROU	27	Marius Ungureanu	biathlon	Raluca Strămăturaru	Luge
14th	Luxembourg	LUX	1	Matthieu Osch	Alpine skiing	Matthieu Osch	Alpine skiing
15th	Lithuania	LTU	9	Tomas Kaukėnas	biathlon	Andrei Drukarov	Alpine skiing
16	Liechtenstein	LIE	3	Marco Pfiffner	Alpine skiing	Volunteer
17th	Madagascar	MAD	1	Mialitiana Clerc	Alpine skiing	Mialitiana Clerc	Alpine skiing
18th	Malaysia	MAS	2	Julian Yee	figure skating	Julian Yee	figure skating
19th	Mexico	MEX	4th	German Madrazo	Cross-country skiing	Rodolfo Dickson	Alpine skiing
20th	Monaco	MON	4th	Rudy Rinaldi	bob	Boris Vain	bob
21st	Morocco	MAR	2	Samir Azzimani	Cross-country skiing	Adam Lamhamedi	Alpine skiing
22nd	Montenegro	MNE	3	Jelena Vujičić	Alpine skiing	Eldar Salihović	Alpine skiing
23	Moldova	MDA	2	Nicolae Gaiduc	Cross-country skiing	Nicolae Gaiduc	Cross-country skiing
24	Malta	MLT	1	Élise Pellegrin	Alpine skiing	Élise Pellegrin	Alpine skiing
25th	Mongolia	MGL	2	Atschbadrach Batmönch	Cross-country skiing	Tschinbatyn Otgontsetseg	Cross-country skiing
26th	United States	United States	241	Erin Hamlin	Luge	Jessica Diggins	Cross-country skiing
27	Bermuda	BER	1	Tucker Murphy	Cross-country skiing	Tucker Murphy	Cross-country skiing
28	Belgium	BEL	21st	Seppe Smits	Snowboard	Beard swings	Speed ​​skating
29	Belarus	BLR	33	Ala Zuper	Freestyle skiing	Darja Domratschawa	biathlon
30th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	4th	Elvedina Muzaferija	Alpine skiing	Elvedina Muzaferija	Alpine skiing
31	Bolivia	BOL	2	Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander	Alpine skiing	Timo Juhani Grönlund	Cross-country skiing
32	Bulgaria	BUL	21st	Radoslaw Jankow	Snowboard	Jordan Chuchuganov	Cross-country skiing
33	Brazil	BRA	9	Edson Bindilatti	bob	Isadore Williams	figure skating
34	San Marino	SMR	1	Alessandro Mariotti	Alpine skiing	Alessandro Mariotti	Alpine skiing
35	Serbia	SRB	4th	Nevena Ignjatović	Alpine skiing	Nevena Ignjatović	Alpine skiing
36	Sweden	SWE	116	Niklas Edin	Curling	Charlotte Kalla	Cross-country skiing
37	Switzerland	SUI	167	Dario Cologna	Cross-country skiing	Ramon Zen houses	Alpine skiing
38	Spain	ESP	12	Lucas Eguibar	Snowboard	Javier Fernández López	figure skating
39	Slovakia	SVK	56	Veronika Velez-Zuzulová	Alpine skiing	Petra Vlhová	Alpine skiing
40	Slovenia	SLO	71	Vesna Fabjan	Cross-country skiing	Filip Flisar	Freestyle skiing
41	Singapore	SGP	1	Cheyenne Goh	Short track	Volunteer
42	Armenia	POOR	3	Mikayel Mikayeljan	Cross-country skiing	Mikayel Mikayeljan	Cross-country skiing
43	Argentina	ARG	6th	Sebastiano Gastaldi	Alpine skiing	Verónica María Ravenna	Luge
44	Iceland	ISL	5	Freydís Halla Einarsdóttir	Alpine skiing	Snorri Einarsson	Cross-country skiing
45	Ireland	IRL	5	Seamus O'Connor	Snowboard	Brendan Newby	Freestyle skiing
46	Azerbaijan	AZE	1	Patrick Brachner	Alpine skiing	Volunteer
47	Andorra	AND	5	Irineu Esteve Altimiras	Cross-country skiing	Irineu Esteve Altimiras	Cross-country skiing
48	Albania	ALB	2	Suela Mëhilli	Alpine skiing	Suela Mëhilli	Alpine skiing
49	Eritrea	ERI	1	Shannon-Ogbani Abeda	Alpine skiing	Shannon-Ogbani Abeda	Alpine skiing
50	Estonia	EST	22nd	Saskia Alusalu	Speed ​​skating	Saskia Alusalu	Speed ​​skating
51	Ecuador	ECU	1	Klaus Jungbluth Rodríguez	Cross-country skiing	Klaus Jungbluth Rodríguez	Cross-country skiing
52	Great Britain	GBR	59	Elizabeth Yarnold	skeleton	Billy Morgan	Snowboard
53	Australia	OUT	51	Scott James	Snowboard	Jarryd Hughes	Snowboard
54	Austria	AUT	105	Anna Veith	Alpine skiing	Madeleine Egle	Luge
55	Olympic athletes from Russia	OAR	169	Volunteer		Volunteer
56	Uzbekistan	UZB	2	Komiljon Toʻxtayev	Alpine skiing	Volunteer
57	Ukraine	UKR	33	Olena Pidhruschna	biathlon	Oleksandr Abramenko	Freestyle skiing
58	Iran	IRI	4th	Samaneh Beirami Baher	Cross-country skiing	Volunteer
59	Italy	ITA	122	Arianna Fontana	Short track	Carolina Kostner	figure skating
60	Israel	ISR	10	Oleksiy Bychenko	figure skating	Itamar Biran	Alpine skiing
61	India	IND	2	Shiva Keshavan	Luge	Volunteer
62	Japan	JPN	124	Noriaki Kasai	Ski jumping	Nao Kodaira	Speed ​​skating
63	Jamaica	JAM	3	Audra Segree	bob	Carrie Russell	bob
64	Georgia	GEO	4th	Moris Qwitelashvili	figure skating	Jason Abramashvili	Alpine skiing
65	People's Republic of China	CHN	81	Zhou Yang	Short track	Wu Dajing	Short track
66	Czech Republic	CZE	95	Eva Samková	Snowboard	Ester Ledecká	Snowboard alpine skiing
67	Chile	CHI	7th	Henrik von Appen	Alpine skiing	Claudia Salcedo Quezada	Cross-country skiing
68	Kazakhstan	KAZ	46	Absal Ashghaliyev	Short track	Absal Ashghaliyev	Short track
69	Canada	CAN	225	Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir	figure skating	Kim Boutin	Short track
70	Kenya	KEN	1	Sabrina Simader	Alpine skiing	Volunteer
71	Kosovo	KOS	1	Albin Tahiri	Alpine skiing	Albin Tahiri	Alpine skiing
72	Colombia	COL	4th	Pedro Causil	Speed ​​skating	Michael Poettoz	Alpine skiing
73	Croatia	CRO	19th	Natko Zrnčić-Dim	Alpine skiing	Dražen Silić	bob
74	Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	2	Tariel Djarkymbayev	Cross-country skiing	Yevgeny Timofeev	Alpine skiing
75	Cyprus	CYP	1	Dinos Lefkaritis	Alpine skiing	Dinos Lefkaritis	Alpine skiing
76	Chinese Taipei	TPE	4th	Lien Te-an	Luge	Huang Yu-ting	Speed ​​skating
77	Thailand	THA	4th	Mark Chanloung	Cross-country skiing	Mark Chanloung	Cross-country skiing
78	Turkey	DOOR	8th	Fatih Arda İpcioğlu	Ski jumping	Hamza Dursun	Cross-country skiing
79	Togo	TOG	2	Mathilde-Amivi Petitjean	Cross-country skiing	Mathilde-Amivi Petitjean	Cross-country skiing
80	Tonga	TGA	1	Pita Taufatofua	Cross-country skiing	Pita Taufatofua	Cross-country skiing
81	Pakistan	PAH	2	Muhammad Karim	Alpine skiing	Muhammad Karim	Alpine skiing
82	Portugal	POR	2	Kequyen Lam	Cross-country skiing	Arthur Hanse	Alpine skiing
83	Poland	POLE	62	Zbigniew Bródka	Speed ​​skating	Mateusz Luty	bob
84	Puerto Rico	PURE	1	Charles Flaherty	Alpine skiing	Charles Flaherty	Alpine skiing
85	France	FRA	107	Martin Fourcade	biathlon	Gabriella Papadakis Guillaume Cizeron	figure skating
86	Macedonia	MKD	3	Stavre Jada	Cross-country skiing	Volunteer
87	Finland	FIN	106	Janne Ahonen	Ski jumping	Mika Poutala	Speed ​​skating
88	Philippines	PHI	2	Asa Miller	Alpine skiing	Asa Miller	Alpine skiing
89	Hungary	HUN	19th	Konrád Nagy	Speed ​​skating	Volunteer
90	Hong Kong	HKG	1	Arabella Ng	Alpine skiing	Volunteer
91	Korea	COR	156	Won Yun-jong Hwang Chung-gum	Bob ice hockey	Volunteer
92	North Korea *	PRK	10	-		Kim Ju-sik	figure skating
92	South Korea *	COR	123	-		Lee Seung-hoon	Speed ​​skating

^*The teams from North and South Korea came in as a total Korean team. In the competitions, however, they competed as independent nations. The only exception was a Korean women's ice hockey team

According to sports

Most of the flag bearers came from alpine skiing , followed by cross-country skiing . Very few standard-bearers came with one each from curling ( Sweden ) and Nordic combined ( Germany ) as well as ice hockey with the North Korean Hwang Chung-gum . The flag bearer of the graduation ceremony for ( Czech Republic ), Ester Ledecká , participated in both alpine skiing and snowboarding competitions.

sport	Opening ceremony	number	Closing ceremony	number
biathlon		05		01
Bobsleigh		05 +1		04th
Curling		01		00
ice Hockey		00 + 1		01
figure skating		04th		06th
Speed ​​skating		06th		08th
Freestyle skiing		02		03
Nordic combination		01		00
Luge		03		03
Short track		04th		04th
skeleton		02		02
Alpine skiing		28		28
Cross-country skiing		17th		17th
Ski jumping		03		00
Snowboard		06th		04th
Volunteer		01		13

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Opening Ceremony Flagbearers - Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018 (PDF), website of the International Olympic Committee. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
2. ↑ [1] (PDF), website of the International Olympic Committee. Accessed February 25, 2018.