2022 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations

During the Parade of Nations within the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony on February 4, athletes and officials from each participating country marched in the Beijing National Stadium preceded by their flag and placard bearer bearing the respective country's name. Each flag bearer was chosen either by the nation's National Olympic Committee or by the team of athletes themselves.

Parade order

By tradition, Greece entered first as the originator of the Olympics,^[1] and China entered last as host. Per a new rule introduced by the International Olympic Committee at the 2020 Summer Olympics,^[2] Italy entered second-to-last as the upcoming host of the 2026 Winter Olympics. All nations in between entered in the order of the host nation's language, Simplified Chinese.^[3]

As part of sanctions due to the Russian doping scandal, Russia was not allowed to directly use its name or flag, and entered under the acronym "ROC" after the Russian Olympic Committee and its flag.

Announcers in the stadium read off the names of the marching nations in Mandarin Chinese (the official language of the host country), English and French (the official languages of the Olympics) with music accompanying the athletes as they marched into the stadium.

According to the vigent version of the Olympic Charter during that Games, each nation had the option of having two flag bearers (a man and a woman) in an effort to promote gender equality.

Sort order

As Chinese characters do not have an alphabetical order, they were sorted based on stroke count.^[4] Specifically:

• Characters with fewer strokes march earlier, so San Marino (圣马力诺) marched before Kyrgyzstan (吉尔吉斯斯坦) because 圣 has 5 strokes and 吉 has 6 strokes.
• If the initial characters have the same number of strokes, then the stroke orders of the two characters are grouped in the order 橫竖撇捺折 (horizontal/vertical/left falling/right falling/fold). For example, Denmark (丹麦) marched before Brazil (巴西) because 丹 has four strokes in the order ㇓㇆㇔㇐ (3541), while 巴 has four strokes in the order ㇕丨㇐㇟ (5215).
  • The second characters are not compared, even though 麦 has more strokes than 西.
• While it is possible to have a pair of characters with the same stroke count and the same stroke order groups, this did not occur during the parade. If the initial characters are identical, the second characters of each nation are used, and so on.

List

The following is a list of each country's flag bearer. The list is sorted by the sequence that each nation appeared in the Parade of Nations.^[5] The names are given in their official designations by the IOC, and the Chinese names follow their official designations by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

This table is sortable by country name in English, country name in simplified Chinese, country name in pinyin, flag bearer name, and flag bearer sport.

Order	Nation	Chinese name	Pinyin	Flag bearer	Sport/Function	Ref.
1	Greece	希腊	Xīlà	Apostolos Angelis	Cross-country skiing	[6]
				Maria Ntanou
2	Turkey	土耳其	Tǔěrqí	Furkan Akar	Short track speed skating	[6]
				Aysenur Duman	Cross-country skiing
3	Malta	马耳他	Mǎěrtā	Jenise Spiteri	Snowboarding	[7]
4	Madagascar	马达加斯加	Mǎdájiāsījiā	Mialitiana Clerc	Alpine skiing	[6]
				Mathieu Neumuller
5	Malaysia	马来西亚	Mǎláixīyà	Aruwin Salehhuddin	Alpine skiing	[8]
				Jeffrey Webb
6	Ecuador	厄瓜多尔	Èguāduōěr	Sarah Escobar	Alpine skiing	[9]
7	Eritrea	厄立特里亚	Èlìtélǐyà	Shannon-Ogbnai Abeda	Alpine skiing	[10]
8	Jamaica	牙买加	Yámǎijiā	Benjamin Alexander	Alpine skiing	[6]
				Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian	Bobsleigh
9	Belgium	比利时	Bǐlìshí	Loena Hendrickx	Figure skating	[11]
				Armand Marchant	Alpine skiing
10	Japan	日本	Rìběn	Arisa Go	Speed skating	[12][13]
				Akito Watabe	Nordic combined
11	Chinese Taipei	中华台北	Zhōnghuá Táiběi	Huang Yu-ting	Speed skating	[14]
				Ho Ping-jui	Alpine skiing
12	Hong Kong, China	中国香港	Zhōngguó Xiānggǎng	Sidney Chu	Short track speed skating	[15]
13	Denmark	丹麦	Dānmài	Madeleine Dupont	Curling	[16]
				Frans Nielsen	Ice hockey
14	Ukraine	乌克兰	Wūkèlán	Oleksandr Abramenko	Freestyle skiing	[6]
				Oleksandra Nazarova	Figure skating
15	Uzbekistan	乌兹别克斯坦	Wūzībiékèsītǎn	Komiljon Tukhtaev	Alpine skiing	[6]
16	Brazil	巴西	Bāxī	Edson Bindilatti	Bobsleigh	[17]
				Jaqueline Mourão	Cross-country skiing
17	Pakistan	巴基斯坦	Bājīsītǎn	Muhammad Karim	Alpine skiing	[6]
18	Israel	以色列	Yǐsèliè	Evgeni Krasnopolski	Figure skating	[6]
				Noa Szollos	Alpine skiing
19	Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste	东帝汶	Dōngdìwèn	Yohan Goutt Gonçalves	Alpine skiing	[6]
20	North Macedonia	北马其顿	Běimǎqídùn	Dardan Dehari	Alpine skiing	[18][19]
21	Luxembourg	卢森堡	Lúsēnbǎo	Matthieu Osch	Alpine skiing	[6]
				Gwyneth ten Raa
22	Belarus	白俄罗斯	Báiéluósī	Ignat Golovatsiuk	Speed skating	[6]
				Hanna Nifantava
23	India	印度	Yìndù	Arif Khan	Alpine skiing	[17]
24	Lithuania	立陶宛	Lìtáowǎn	Deividas Kizala	Figure skating	[6]
				Paulina Ramanauskaitė
25	Nigeria	尼日利亚	Nírìlìyà	Seun Adigun[a]	Team official	[20]
26	Ghana	加纳	Jiānà	Carlos Mäder	Alpine skiing	[21]
27	Canada	加拿大	Jiānádà	Charles Hamelin	Short track speed skating	[22]
				Marie-Philip Poulin	Ice hockey
28	San Marino	圣马力诺	Shèng Mǎlìnuò	Matteo Gatti	Alpine skiing	[6]
				Anna Torsani
29	Kyrgyzstan	吉尔吉斯斯坦	Jíěrjísīsītǎn	Maksim Gordeev	Alpine skiing	[6]
30	Armenia	亚美尼亚	Yàměiníyà	Tina Garabedian	Figure skating	[6]
				Mikayel Mikayelyan	Cross-country skiing
31	Spain	西班牙	Xībānyá	Queralt Castellet	Snowboarding	[23]
				Ander Mirambell	Skeleton
32	Liechtenstein	列支敦士登	Lièzhīdūnshìdēng	Stefan Marxer	Team official	[24]
33	Islamic Republic of Iran	伊朗	Yīlǎng	Atefeh Ahmadi	Alpine skiing	[25]
				Hossein Saveh-Shemshaki
34	Hungary	匈牙利	Xiōngyálì	Zita Tóth	Alpine skiing	[26]
				Márton Kékesi
35	Iceland	冰岛	Bīngdǎo	Kristrún Guðnadóttir	Cross-country skiing	[6]
				Sturla Snær Snorrason	Alpine skiing
36	Andorra	安道尔	Āndàoěr	Maeva Estevez	Snowboarding	[27]
37	Finland	芬兰	Fēnlán	Valtteri Filppula	Ice hockey	[28]
38	Croatia	克罗地亚	Kèluódìyà	Zrinka Ljutić	Alpine skiing	[6]
				Marko Skender	Cross-country skiing
39	Saudi Arabia	沙特	Shātè	Fayik Abdi	Alpine skiing	[6]
40	Albania	阿尔巴尼亚	Āěrbāníyà	Denni Xhepa	Alpine skiing	[29]
41	Argentina	阿根廷	Āgēntíng	Francesca Baruzzi	Alpine skiing	[30]
				Franco Dal Farra	Cross-country skiing
42	Azerbaijan	阿塞拜疆	Āsāibàijiāng	Vladimir Litvintsev	Figure skating	[31]
43	Latvia	拉脱维亚	Lātuōwéiyà	Elīza Tīruma	Luge	[32]
				Lauris Dārziņš	Ice hockey
44	Great Britain	英国	Yīngguó	Eve Muirhead	Curling	[33]
				Dave Ryding	Alpine skiing
45	Romania	罗马尼亚	Luōmǎníyà	Raluca Strămăturaru	Luge	[34]
				Paul Pepene	Cross-country skiing
46	ROC (ROC)[b]	ROC[c]		Olga Fatkulina	Speed skating	[6]
				Vadim Shipachyov	Ice hockey
47	France	法国	Fǎguó	Tessa Worley	Alpine skiing	[36]
				Kevin Rolland	Freestyle skiing
48	Poland	波兰	Bōlán	Aleksandra Król	Snowboarding	[37]
				Zbigniew Bródka	Speed skating
49	Puerto Rico	波多黎各	Bōduō Lígè	Kellie Delka	Skeleton	[38]
				William Flaherty	Alpine skiing
50	Bosnia and Herzegovina	波黑	Bōhēi	Elvedina Muzaferija	Alpine skiing	[6]
				Mirza Nikolajev	Luge
51	Bolivia	玻利维亚	Bōlìwéiyà	Simon Breitfuss Kammerlander	Alpine skiing	[6]
52	Norway	挪威	Nuówēi	Kjetil Jansrud	Alpine skiing	[6]
				Kristin Skaslien	Curling
53	Kazakhstan	哈萨克斯坦	Hāsàkèsītǎn	Yekaterina Aidova	Speed skating	[39][40]
				Abzal Azhgaliyev	Short track speed skating
54	Kosovo	科索沃	Kēsuǒwò	Albin Tahiri	Alpine skiing	[41]
55	Bulgaria	保加利亚	Bǎojiālìyà	Maria Zdravkova	Biathlon	[42]
				Radoslav Yankov	Snowboarding
56	United States of America	美国	Měiguó	Brittany Bowe[d]	Speed skating	[44]
				John Shuster	Curling
57	American Samoa	美属萨摩亚	Měishǔ Sàmóyà	Nathan Crumpton	Skeleton	[6]
58	Virgin Islands, US	美属维尔京群岛	Měishǔ Wéiěrjīng Qúndǎo	Volunteer[e]	Volunteer	[6]
59	Thailand	泰国	Tàiguó	Karen Chanloung	Cross-country skiing	[6]
				Nicola Zanon	Alpine skiing
60	Netherlands	荷兰	Hélán	Lindsay van Zundert	Figure skating	[45]
				Kjeld Nuis	Speed skating
61	Georgia	格鲁吉亚	Gélǔjíyà	Nino Tsiklauri	Alpine skiing	[46]
				Morisi Kvitelashvili	Figure skating
62	Colombia	哥伦比亚	Gēlúnbǐyà	Laura Gómez	Speed skating	[6]
				Carlos Andres Quintana	Cross-country skiing
63	Trinidad and Tobago	特立尼达和多巴哥	Tèlìnídá hé Duōbāgē	Andre Marcano	Bobsleigh	[47]
64	Peru	秘鲁	Bìlǔ	Ornella Oettl Reyes	Alpine skiing	[6]
65	Ireland	爱尔兰	Aìěrlán	Elsa Desmond	Luge	[48]
				Brendan Newby	Freestyle skiing
66	Estonia	爱沙尼亚	Aìshāníyà	Kelly Sildaru	Freestyle skiing	[49]
				Martin Himma	Cross-country skiing
67	Haiti	海地	Hǎidì	Richardson Viano	Alpine skiing	[17]
68	Czech Republic	捷克	Jiékè	Alena Mills	Ice hockey	[50]
				Michal Březina	Figure skating
69	Philippines	菲律宾	Fēilǜbīn	Asa Miller	Alpine skiing	[51]
70	Slovenia	斯洛文尼亚	Sīluòwénníyà	Ilka Štuhec	Alpine skiing	[52]
				Rok Marguč	Snowboarding
71	Slovakia	斯洛伐克	Sīluòfákè	Marek Hrivik	Ice hockey	[6]
				Katarina Simonakova	Luge
72	Portugal	葡萄牙	Pútáoyá	Ricardo Brancal	Alpine skiing	[6]
				Vanina Guerillot
73	Republic of Korea	韩国	Hánguó	Kim A-lang[53][f]	Short track speed skating	[54]
				Kwak Yoon-gy
74	Montenegro	黑山	Hēishān	Eldar Salihović	Alpine skiing	[6]
				Jelena Vujicic
75	Chile	智利	Zhìlì	Dominique Ohaco	Freestyle skiing	[6]
				Henrik von Appen	Alpine skiing
76	Austria	奥地利	Aòdìlì	Julia Dujmovits	Snowboarding	[6]
				Benjamin Maier	Bobsleigh
77	Switzerland	瑞士	Ruìshì	Andres Ambühl	Ice hockey	[55]
				Wendy Holdener	Alpine skiing
78	Sweden	瑞典	Ruìdiǎn	Oliwer Magnusson	Freestyle skiing	[6]
				Emma Nordin	Ice hockey
79	Mongolia	蒙古	Měnggǔ	Ariunsanaagiin Enkhtuul	Cross-country skiing	[6]
				Batmönkhiin Achbadrakh
80	New Zealand	新西兰	Xīn Xīlán	Alice Robinson	Alpine skiing	[56]
				Finn Bilous	Freestyle skiing
81	Serbia	塞尔维亚	Sàiěrwéiyà	Marko Vukićević	Alpine skiing	[6]
82	Cyprus	塞浦路斯	Sàipǔlùsī	Yianno Kouyoumdjian	Alpine skiing	[6]
83	Mexico	墨西哥	Mòxīgē	Sarah Schleper	Alpine skiing	[57]
				Donovan Carrillo	Figure skating
84	Lebanon	黎巴嫩	Líbānèn	Manon Ouaiss	Alpine skiing	[6]
				Cesar Arnouk
85	Germany	德国	Déguó	Francesco Friedrich	Bobsleigh	[58]
				Claudia Pechstein	Speed skating
86	Republic of Moldova	摩尔多瓦	Móěrduōwǎ	Doina Descalui	Luge	[59]
87	Monaco	摩纳哥	Mónàgē	Arnaud Alessandria	Alpine skiing	[60]
88	Morocco	摩洛哥	Móluògē	Yassine Aouich	Alpine skiing	[6]
89	Australia	澳大利亚	Àodàlìyǎ	Brendan Kerry	Figure skating	[61]
				Laura Peel	Freestyle skiing
90	Italy	意大利	Yìdàlì	Michela Moioli	Snowboarding	[62]
91	People's Republic of China	中国	Zhōngguó	Zhao Dan	Skeleton	[63]
				Gao Tingyu	Speed skating

Notes

1. Adigun represented Nigeria at the 2018 Winter Olympics in bobsleigh, and was the official team doctor for these games.
2. The delegation competed under the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee.
3. ROC is sorted under a Chinese transcription of its English abbreviation, 罗克 (Luōkè). No Chinese name was displayed on the placard. During the Parade of Nations, the ROC was announced in French, English, and Chinese as "Comité olympique russe," "Russian Olympic Committee," and "俄罗斯奥林匹克委员会" (Èluósī àolínpǐkè wěiyuánhuì) respectively.^[35]
4. Bowe replaced Elana Meyers Taylor, who withdrew from the ceremony after testing positive for COVID-19.^[43]
5. The Virgin Islands' only competitor, Katie Tannenbaum, was forced to miss the opening ceremony after testing positive for COVID-19.
6. Kim A-lang replaced Kim Min-sun.