President of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games

The President of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is the individual who is in charge of leading the Organizing Committee for each Olympic Games.

Lists of presidents

Summer Olympic Games

President	Game	Host City	Year
Constantine I of Greece	Games of the I Olympiad	Athens	1896
Pierre de Coubertin	Games of the II Olympiad	Paris	1900
David R. Francis	Games of the III Olympiad	St. Louis	1904
Edward Battell	Games of the IV Olympiad	London	1908
Sigfrid Edström	Games of the V Olympiad	Stockholm	1912
Henri de Baillet-Latour	Games of the VII Olympiad	Antwerp	1920
Pierre de Coubertin	Games of the VIII Olympiad	Paris	1924
Solko van den Bergh	Games of the IX Olympiad	Amsterdam	1928
George Bryant	Games of the X Olympiad	Los Angeles	1932
Joseph Goebbels Karl Ritter von Halt	Games of the XI Olympiad	Berlin	1936
Lord Burghley	Games of the XIV Olympiad	London	1948
Erik V. Frenckell	Games of the XV Olympiad	Helsinki	1952
Wilfrid Kent Hughes	Games of the XVI Olympiad	Melbourne	1956
Giulio Andreotti	Games of the XVII Olympiad	Rome	1960
Daigoro Yasukawa	Games of the XVIII Olympiad	Tokyo	1964
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez	Games of the XIX Olympiad	Mexico City	1968
Hans-Jochen Vogel	Games of the XX Olympiad	Munich	1972
Jean Doré	Games of the XXI Olympiad	Montreal	1976
Konstantin Chernenko (official representative Ignati Novikov)	Games of the XXII Olympiad	Moscow	1980
Peter Ueberroth	Games of the XXIII Olympiad	Los Angeles	1984
Kim Yong-shik Roh Tae-woo Park Seh-jik	Games of the XXIV Olympiad	Seoul	1988
Pasqual Maragall	Games of the XXV Olympiad	Barcelona	1992
Billy Payne	Games of the XXVI Olympiad	Atlanta	1996
Michael Knight	Games of the XXVII Olympiad	Sydney	2000
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki	Games of the XXVIII Olympiad	Athens	2004
Liu Qi	Games of the XXIX Olympiad	Beijing	2008
Lord Coe	Games of the XXX Olympiad	London	2012
Carlos Arthur Nuzman	Games of the XXXI Olympiad	Rio de Janeiro	2016
Yoshirō Mori	Games of the XXXII Olympiad	Tokyo	2020
Tony Estanguet	Games of the XXXIII Olympiad	Paris	2024
Casey Wasserman	Games of the XXXIV Olympiad	Los Angeles	2028

Winter Olympic Games

President	Game	Host City	Year
Pierre de Coubertin	I Olympic Winter Games	Chamonix	1924
Edmund Schulthess	II Olympic Winter Games	St Moritz	1928
William Stephens	III Olympic Winter Games	Lake Placid	1932
Joseph Goebbels	IV Olympic Winter Games	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	1936
Alfred Schläppi Heinrich Schläppi	V Olympic Winter Games	St. Moritz	1948
Haakon VII of Norway Princess Astrid of Norway Olaf Helset	VI Olympic Winter Games	Oslo	1952
Enrico Colli	VII Olympic Winter Games	Cortina d'Ampezzo	1956
Prentis Cobb Hale	VIII Olympic Winter Games	Squaw Valley	1960
Bruno Kreisky	IX Olympic Winter Games	Innsbruck	1964
Jean de Beaumont	X Olympic Winter Games	Grenoble	1968
Kōgorō Uemura	XI Olympic Winter Games	Sapporo	1972
Bruno Kreisky	XII Olympic Winter Games	Innsbruck	1976
Rev. J. Bernard Fell	XIII Olympic Winter Games	Lake Placid	1980
Branko Mikulić	XIV Olympic Winter Games	Sarajevo	1984
Frank King	XV Olympic Winter Games	Calgary	1988
Jean-Claude Killy	XVI Olympic Winter Games	Albertville	1992
Gerhard Heiberg	XVII Olympic Winter Games	Lillehammer	1994
Eishiro Saito	XVIII Olympic Winter Games	Nagano	1998
Frank Joklik Mitt Romney	XIX Olympic Winter Games	Salt Lake City	2002
Valentino Castellani	XX Olympic Winter Games	Turin	2006
John Furlong	XXI Olympic Winter Games	Vancouver	2010
Dmitry Chernyshenko	XXII Olympic Winter Games	Sochi	2014
Kim Jin-sun Cho Yang-ho Lee Hee-beom	XXIII Olympic Winter Games	Pyeongchang	2018
Guo Jinlong Cai Qi	XXIV Olympic Winter Games	Beijing	2022

Summer Youth Olympic Games

President	Game	Host City	Year
Ng Ser Miang	I Summer Youth Olympic Games	Singapore	2010
Li Xueyong	II Summer Youth Olympic Games	Nanjing	2014
Gerardo Werthein	III Summer Youth Olympic Games	Buenos Aires	2018

Winter Youth Olympic Games

President	Game	Host City	Year
Richard Rubatscher	I Winter Youth Olympic Games	Innsbruck	2012
Siri Hatlen	II Winter Youth Olympic Games	Lillehammer	2016
Ian Logan	III Winter Youth Olympic Games	Lausanne	2020

Other Offices Held

Presidents of the Olympic Organizing Committee have gone on to or have served in other high offices.

Joseph Goebbels who headed the organizing committees for the 1936 Winter Olympics and 1936 Summer Olympics served as Chancellor of Germany for one day in 1945 before committing suicide.

Elected Office

David R. Francis who headed the organizing committee for the 1904 Summer Olympics served as Governor of Missouri prior to heading the organizing committee. He later briefly served as the US Ambassador to Russia.

Following the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Mitt Romney ran for Governor of Massachusetts and was elected Governor with nearly 50% of the vote in the election. He served one term as governor. He was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 Presidential Election but lost to then-incumbent President Barack Obama.

Yoshirō Mori who is the head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2000 to 2001.

Other Sporting Positions

Pierre de Coubertin who headed the organizing committees for the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics as well as the 1924 Winter Olympics was the founder of the modern Olympic movement and International Olympic Committee. He served as President of the International Olympic Committee from 1896 to 1925.

Peter Ueberroth who headed the organizing committee for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles went on to serve as the Commissioner of Baseball from 1984 to 1989.

Sebastian Coe who headed the organizing committee for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London is now serving as the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations. He had also served as the Chairman of the British Olympic Association from 2012 to 2016.

External links

• ORGANISING COMMITTEES FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES