List of patrons at the Olympic Games

Games	venue	Host nation	Patron	image	Remarks
Olympic Summer Games 1896	Athens	Greece	King George I of Greece
Summer Olympics 1900	Paris	France	Trade Minister Alexandre Millerand		Organizer of the 1900 World's Fair
1904 Summer Olympics	St. Louis	United States	David Rowland Francis		Organizer of the 1904 World's Fair
( Olympic Intermediate Games 1906 )	Athens	Greece	Crown Prince Constantine of Greece
1908 Summer Olympics	London	Great Britain	King Edward VII of Great Britain
1912 Summer Olympics	Stockholm	Sweden	King Gustav V of Sweden
1920 Summer Olympics	Antwerp	Belgium	King Albert I of Belgium
Olympic Winter Games 1924	Chamonix	France	President Alexandre Millerand		Patron of the Summer Olympics in Paris 24 years earlier
1924 Summer Olympics	Paris	France	President Gaston Doumergue
Olympic Winter Games 1928	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Federal President Edmund Schulthess
1928 Summer Olympics	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
1932 Winter Olympics	Lake Placid	United States	Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd
1932 Summer Olympics	los Angeles	United States	Vice President Charles Curtis
Olympic Winter Games 1936	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	Chancellor Adolf Hitler		After the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , who was the patron, Reich Chancellor Hitler took over the patronage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics on November 13, 1934, which had already been added to the Winter Olympics for February 1936, so to speak.
1936 Summer Olympics	Berlin	Germany	Chancellor Adolf Hitler
Olympic Winter Games 1948	St. Moritz	Switzerland	Federal President Enrico Celio
1948 Summer Olympics	London	Great Britain	King George VI. of Great Britain
1952 Winter Olympics	Oslo	Norway	King Håkon VII of Norway
1952 Summer Olympics	Helsinki	Finland	President Juho Kusti Paasikivi
1956 Winter Olympics	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	President Giovanni Gronchi
1956 Summer Olympics	Stockholm	Sweden	King Gustav VI. Adolf of Sweden		Only the equestrian competitions are held
1956 Summer Olympics	Melbourne	Australia	Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh
1960 Winter Olympics	Squaw Valley	United States	Vice President Richard Nixon
1960 Summer Olympics	Rome	Italy	President Giovanni Gronchi
1964 Winter Olympics	innsbruck	Austria	Federal President Adolf Schärf
1964 Summer Olympics	Tokyo	Japan	Emperor Hirohito
1968 Winter Olympics	Grenoble	France	President Charles de Gaulle
1968 Summer Olympics	Mexico city	Mexico	President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
1972 Winter Olympics	Sapporo	Japan	Emperor Hirohito
1972 Summer Olympics	Munich	Germany	Federal President Gustav Heinemann
1976 Winter Olympics	innsbruck	Austria	Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger
1976 Summer Olympics	Montreal	Canada	Queen Elizabeth II of Canada		The first woman to sponsor the Olympics in 48 years; her husband Prince Philip was the patron of the Melbourne Olympics 20 years earlier
1980 Winter Olympics	Lake Placid	United States	Vice President Walter Mondale
1980 Summer Olympics	Moscow	Soviet Union	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev
1984 Winter Olympics	Sarajevo	Yugoslavia	Chairman of the Presidium of the Republic Mika Špiljak
1984 Summer Olympics	los Angeles	United States	President Ronald Reagan		First US president to sponsor the Olympic Games
1988 Winter Olympics	Calgary	Canada	Governor General Jeanne Sauvé
1988 Summer Olympics	Seoul	South Korea	President Roh Tae-woo
1992 Winter Olympics	Albertville	France	President François Mitterrand
1992 Summer Olympics	Barcelona	Spain	King Juan Carlos I of Spain
1994 Winter Olympics	Lillehammer	Norway	King Harald V of Norway
1996 Summer Olympics	Atlanta	United States	President Bill Clinton
1998 Winter Olympics	Nagano	Japan	Emperor Akihito
2000 Summer Olympics	Sydney	Australia	Governor General Sir William Patrick Deane
2002 Winter Olympics	Salt Lake City	United States	President George W. Bush
2004 Summer Olympics	Athens	Greece	President Konstantinos Stefanopoulos
2006 Winter Olympics	Turin	Italy	President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
2008 Summer Olympics	Beijing	People's Republic of China	President Hu Jintao
2010 Winter Olympics	Vancouver	Canada	Governor General Michaëlle Jean
2012 Summer Olympics	London	Great Britain	Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain		Already 36 years earlier, patron of the Montreal Summer Olympics
2014 Winter Olympics	Sochi	Russia	President Vladimir Putin
2016 Summer Olympics	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Vice President Michel Temer		President Dilma Rousseff was suspended from duty during the Olympic Games due to impeachment.
Olympic Winter Games 2018	Pyeongchang	South Korea	President Moon Jae-in

Individual evidence

1. ^ Games under the swastika: the Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Berlin in 1936 and their political implications. Author: Horst Ueberhorst . In: From Politics and Contemporary History, year 1986 (1986), Volume 31, pp. 4–5.