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.
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.
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.
NowGuyana(GUY). The code former GUI has been reassigned toGuinea(GUI) in 1965 when its new NOC was recognized by the IOC and used publicly in their first competed games in 1968. All formerly known by BGU[1]
Medal winners from 1948 and earlier display asRepublic of China(ROC), while medal winners from after 1948 display asChinese Taipei(TPE) under which the team now competes.
Used for Russian and Belarusian athletes competing as neutrals due to theRussian invasion of Ukraine. The delegation will use a flag and a one-off instrumental anthem assigned by the IOC.
Used in the IOC's medal database[8] to identify the team fromAustralasia, composed of athletes from bothAustralia andNew Zealand for the 1908 and 1912 Games. Both nations competed separately by 1920.
Used for theRefugee Olympic Team, for athletes who havebeen displaced from their home countries. The IOC code was changed from ROT which was used in 2016.[13]
Used in the IOC's medal database[8] to identify theUnited Team of Germany, composed of athletes representing the NOCs of bothEast Germany andWest Germany for the 1956–1964 Games. The team was simply known asGermany in the official reports for those six games at the time.
Used in 1992 (both Summer and Winter Games) for theUnified Team, composed of athletes from most of the formerSoviet republics that chose to compete as a unified team. Estonia,Latvia andLithuania entered separately in 1992, whereasRussia and eleven other post-Soviet nations competed independently for the first time in 1994 or 1996.
Used forindependent Olympic participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a designation used for athletes fromFR Yugoslavia who could not compete as a team due toUnited Nations sanctions. At the 1992 Summer Olympics IOP was used as a designation for athletes from theRepublic of Macedonia too. IOP was also used during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi by Indian athletes due to the Indian Olympic Association suspension.
Used as the country code forAthletes from Kuwait, when theKuwait Olympic Committee was suspended the first time, at the2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the2010 Asian Games and the2011 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 ofIndividual Olympic Athletes (IOA), including (but not only) in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Used in the IOC's medal database to identify medals won bymixed teams of athletes from multiple nations (such as the combination ofFrance andGreat 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.[8][22][b] In 2021, the code was changed to MIX, matching the code for mixed teams at the Youth Olympics.[23] In 2024, the code was changed to XXB.[24]
Used forIndependent 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.
De facto independentEast 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 the2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, but they competed officially as Individual Paralympic Athletes, rather than as representatives of an NPC.
A team consisting of refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes competed at the2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro as Independent Paralympic Athletes.
Usedin 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 theRussian invasion of Ukraine,[25] however the Russian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the2022 Games. Used again in the2024 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).[26]
PNA
Paralympic Neutral Athletes
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Was to be used for Belarusian athletes competing as neutral athletes due to the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,[25] however the Belarusian athletes were ultimately banned before the start of the2022 Winter Paralympics and the code was not used.
RPC
RPC from the abbreviation forRussian Paralympic Committee
The team represents the estimated 82 million people around the world who are refugees, and the 12 million of which have disabilities perUNHCR estimate.
TheWorld 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 theInternational World Games Association, under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee.
TheHaudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois), who invented the sport oflacrosse and which has spiritual significance to them, were initially denied a spot to compete at the2022 World Games, despite theHaudenosaunee national team's placement at the2018 World Lacrosse Championship, due to not having a recognized NOC and issues concerning other countries recognizingsovereignty; they were given a spot to compete after Ireland agreed to drop out of competition in a show of solidarity.[28][29][30]
^Barbados did not send a delegation to the1964 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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