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This is a list of International Olympic Committee (IOC) country codes.
Current NOCs
There are 206 current NOCs (National Olympic Committees) within the Olympic Movement. The following tables show the currently used code for each NOC and any different codes used in past Games, per the official reports from those Games. Some of the past code usage is further explained in the following sections. Codes used specifically for a Summer Games only or a Winter Games only, within the same year, are indicated by "S" and "W" respectively.
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Current NPCs
Most National Paralympic Committees (NPC) cover a territory with an active NOC. In these cases the NPC codes matches the IOC codes shown above. The two current NPCs without a corresponding NOC use the following NPC codes.
| Code | National Paralympic Committee | Link |
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| MAC | File:Flag of Macau.svg Macau, China | Associação Recreativa dos Deficientes de Macau |
| FRO | File:Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg Faroe Islands | The Faroese Sport Organisation for Disabled |
Historic NOCs and teams
Codes still in use
Fourteen historical NOCs or teams have codes that are still used in the IOC results database[5] to refer to past medal winners from these teams.
| Code | Nation/Team | Other codes used |
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| AHO | File:Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1986–2010).svg Netherlands Antilles |
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| ANZ | File:Flag of Australasian team for Olympic games.svg Australasia | Also AUA[1] |
| BOH | File:Flag of Bohemia.svg Bohemia | |
| BWI | File:Flag of the West Indies Federation.svg British West Indies |
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| EUA | File:Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg United Team of Germany | code taken from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne |
| EUN | File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team | code from the French Équipe unifiée or Spanish Equipo Unificado |
| FRG | File:Flag of Germany.svg West Germany |
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| GDR | File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany | ODE (1968 S) from German Ostdeutschland code GDR taken from German Democratic Republic |
| SCG | File:Flag of Serbia and Montenegro.svg Serbia and Montenegro | code from Serbian Србија и Црна Гора / Srbija i Crna Gora |
| TCH | File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia |
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| URS | File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union | SOV (1968 W) code from French Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques (URSS) |
| VNM | South Vietnam South Vietnam | Code of the State of Vietnam and then Republic of Vietnam from 1952 to 1975.[6][7][8] |
| YUG | File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia |
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Obsolete codes
Unlike the previous list, these codes no longer appear in the IOC results database. When a past athlete from one of these teams has won a medal, the new code is shown next to them instead.
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Two other significant code changes have occurred, both because of a change in the nation's designation as used by the IOC:
- HOL was changed to NED for the Netherlands for the 1992 Games, reflecting the change in designation from Holland.
- IRN was changed to IRI for Iran for the 1992 Games, reflecting the change in designation to Islamic Republic of Iran.
Special codes for Olympics
| Code | Nation/team | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIN | File:Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics Flag.svg Individual Neutral Athletes from French Athlètes Individuels Neutres |
2024 | Used for Russian and Belarusian athletes competing as neutrals due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The delegation will use a flag and a one-off instrumental anthem assigned by the IOC. |
| ANZ | File:Flag of Australasian team for Olympic games.svg Australasia | 1908–1912 | Used in the IOC's medal database[5] to identify the team from Australasia, composed of athletes from both Australia and New Zealand for the 1908 and 1912 Games. Both nations competed separately by 1920. |
| COR | File:Unification flag of Korea (pre 2006).svg Korea from French Corée |
2018 | Used for the unified Korean women's ice hockey team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[9] |
| EOR | File:Olympic flag.svg Refugee Olympic Team from French Équipe olympique des réfugiés |
2016–2024 | Used for the Refugee Olympic Team, for athletes who have been displaced from their home countries. The IOC code was changed from ROT which was used in 2016.[10] |
| EUA | File:Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg United Team of Germany from French Équipe unifiée d'Allemagne |
1956–1964 | Used in the IOC's medal database[5] to identify the United Team of Germany, composed of athletes representing the NOCs of both East Germany and West Germany for the 1956–1964 Games. The team was simply known as Germany in the official reports for those six games at the time. |
| EUN | File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team from French Équipe unifiée |
1992 | Used in 1992 (both Summer and Winter Games) for the Unified Team, composed of athletes from most of the former Soviet republics that chose to compete as a unified team. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania entered separately in 1992, whereas Russia and eleven other post-Soviet nations competed independently for the first time in 1994 or 1996. |
| IOP | File:Olympic flag.svg Independent Olympic Participants |
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Used for independent Olympic participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a designation used for athletes from FR Yugoslavia who could not compete as a team due to United Nations sanctions. At the 1992 Summer Olympics IOP was used as a designation for athletes from the Republic of Macedonia too. IOP was also used during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi by Indian athletes due to the Indian Olympic Association suspension. |
| IOA | File:Olympic flag.svg Independent Olympic Athletes |
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Used for Individual Olympic Athletes in 2000,[11] a designation used for athletes from Timor-Leste before the formation of its NOC. IOA was used again in the 2012 Games, when it stood for Independent Olympic Athletes,[12] comprising athletes from the former Netherlands Antilles and a runner from South Sudan. The Netherlands Antilles Olympic Committee's membership from the IOC was withdrawn the previous year, and South Sudan had not yet formed an NOC at the time. IOA was used again in 2016 for athletes from Kuwait as a result of the suspension of its National Olympic Committee.[13] |
| IOC | File:Olympic flag.svg Athletes from Kuwait | 2010–2012 | Used as the country code for Athletes from Kuwait, when the Kuwait Olympic Committee was suspended the first time, at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the 2010 Asian Games and the 2011 Asian Winter Games; for the second suspension in 2015–2017, athletes from Kuwait were also competing in several international competitions under the IOC flag, but this time in the team of Individual Olympic Athletes (IOA), including (but not only) in the 2016 Summer Olympics. |
| MIX | File:Olympic flag.svg Mixed-NOCs | 2010– | Used as the country code for Mixed NOCs at the Youth Olympics.[14][15] |
| OAR | File:Olympic flag.svg Olympic Athletes from Russia | 2018 | Used for Olympic Athletes from Russia competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.[16] |
| ROC | File:Russian Olympic Committee flag.png ROC from the abbreviation for Russian Olympic Committee |
2020–2022 | Used for Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics following the sanctions due to the state-sponsored doping scandal.[17][18] The delegation used a flag depicting the logo of the Russian Olympic Committee. |
| XXB | File:Olympic flag.svg Mixed team | 1896–1904 | Used in the IOC's medal database to identify medals won by mixed teams of athletes from multiple nations (such as the combination of France and Great Britain), a situation that happened several times in the Games of 1896, 1900, and 1904. Until 2021, the IOC used the code ZZX for mixed teams.[5][19][lower-alpha 2] In 2021, the code was changed to MIX, matching the code for mixed teams at the Youth Olympics.[20] In 2024, the code was changed to XXB.[21] |
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Special codes for Paralympics
| Code | Nation/Team | Years | Notes |
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| IPP | File:Paralympic flag (1988-1994).svg Independent Paralympic Participants | 1992 | Used for Independent Paralympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Paralympics as a designation used for athletes from FR Yugoslavia and Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia who could not compete as a team due to United Nations sanctions. |
| IPA | File:Paralympic flag (1994-2004).svg Individual Paralympic Athletes |
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De facto independent East Timor was not yet recognised as a sovereign state, and did not have a recognised National Paralympic Committee. Two athletes from the country gained the opportunity to in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, but they competed officially as Individual Paralympic Athletes, rather than as representatives of an NPC. |
| IPA | File:Paralympic flag (2010-2019).svg Independent Paralympic Athletes |
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A team consisting of refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro as Independent Paralympic Athletes. |
| NPA | File:Flag of Neutral Paralympic Athletes (Paris 2024).svg Neutral Paralympic Athletes |
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Used in 2018 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Was to be used in 2022 for Russian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine,[22] however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the 2022 Games. Used again in the 2024 Summer Paralympics for both Russian and Belarusian athletes. In 2024, the designation was banned from using the Paralympic flag and instead used a white flag with black letters displaying "NPA" (but still used the Paralympic Anthem).[23] |
| PNA | File:Paralympic flag (2019).svg Paralympic Neutral Athletes | – | Was to be used for Belarusian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,[22] however the Belarusian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the 2022 Winter Paralympics and the code was not used. |
| RPC | File:Russian Paralympic Committee special emblem (Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022).jpg RPC from the abbreviation for Russian Paralympic Committee |
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Used for Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics following the sanctions due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. The delegation used a flag with an altered emblem of the Russian Paralympic Committee (the original emblem being banned due to containing the flag of Russia). Was to be used in 2022 as well, however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| RPT | File:Paralympic flag (2019).svg Refugee Paralympic Team |
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The team represents the estimated 82 million people around the world who are refugees, and the 12 million of which have disabilities per UNHCR estimate. |
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Special codes for World Games
The World Games are a multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. The World Games are governed by the International World Games Association, under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee.
| Code | Nation/Team | Years | Notes |
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| HNL[24] | File:Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg Haudenosaunee | 2022 | The Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois), who invented the sport of lacrosse and which has spiritual significance to them, were initially denied a spot to compete at the 2022 World Games, despite the Haudenosaunee national team's placement at the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship, due to not having a recognized NOC and issues concerning other countries recognizing sovereignty; they were given a spot to compete after Ireland agreed to drop out of competition in a show of solidarity.[25][26][27] |
See also
- Comparison of IOC, FIFA, and ISO 3166 country codes
- List of FIFA country codes
- Lists of National Olympic Committees by continental association:
- List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games
- List of participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games
- List of CGF country codes
- ISO 3166-1
Notes
- ↑ Barbados did not send a delegation to the 1964 Summer Olympics, but is nevertheless listed as a participant with an official country code in the official Tokyo 1964 results book.[2]
- ↑ ZZX is visible in the page HTML for the mixed team's flag.
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Liston, Katie; Maguire, Joseph (2 January 2022). "The 'Great Game' and Sport: Identity, Contestation and Irish–British Relations in the Olympic Movement" (PDF). Journal of War & Culture Studies. 15 (1): 21–41. doi:10.1080/17526272.2020.1864873. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
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- ↑ "MUNICH 1972 SHOOTING 50M PISTOL 60 SHOTS MIXED RESULTS". Olympic.org.
- ↑ "Việt Nam Cộng hòa và những người Việt Nam đầu tiên dự Olympics". 23 July 2021.
- ↑ "South Vietnam (VNM)". Olympedia.
- ↑ IOC. "Olympic Korean Peninsula Declaration" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ↑ Rio2016.org, 3 June 2016 Archived 2016-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "The Results" (PDF). la84foundation.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27.
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- ↑ "Medals – Youth Olympic Games, Buenos Aires 2018". Olympic Channel. Archived from the original on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
- ↑ "IOC suspends Russian NOC and creates a path for clean individual athletes to compete in PyeongChang 2018 under the Olympic Flag". Olympic.org. 24 January 2018.
- ↑ "Russian team to be branded as 'ROC' during Tokyo Olympics as part of doping sanctions". The Japan Times. 20 February 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
- ↑ "Olympics: Russia to compete under ROC acronym in Tokyo as part of doping sanctions". Reuters. Reuters. 2021-02-19. Archived from the original on 2021-02-20. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ↑ "Athens 1896 doubles men Results - Olympic tennis". Olympics. Archived from the original on 2021-04-21.
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- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Russian and Belarusian athletes to still receive medals at Beijing 2022". 2 March 2022.
- ↑ "IPC publish Neutral Paralympic Athletes regulations for the Paris 2024 Paralympics".
- ↑ "World Games 2022: Qualified Nations List". International World Games Association. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
- ↑ Glennon, Michael (2020-09-05). "Ireland sacrifice place for good of 'Medicine Game'". RTÉ.ie.
- ↑ "World Lacrosse Announces Teams for Men's Lacrosse Competition at TWG 2022; Iroquois Nationals Accept Invitation to Compete". TWG 2022 Birmingham. 7 Sep 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
- ↑ Hamby, Bo (October 1, 2020). "Ireland Lacrosse Bows Out Of 2022 World Games So Iroquois Nationals Can Play". National Public Radio.
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