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Juan Antonio Samaranch

IOC president 1980-2001 · Spain · Politicians · Lived 1920 to 2010 · aged 89

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He turned the Olympics from a cash-strapped Cold War relic into a billion-dollar global product. Twenty-one years running the IOC, and the Games left his tenure unrecognizable - corporate, colossal, and impossible to ignore.

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2023La Vanguardia PrizeAward2010Died21 April 20102006Medal and Plaque of Tourist MeritAward2001Order of the Golden FleeceAward2000Medal of the Oriental Republic of UruguayAwardPhilippe Chatrier AwardAward1997Honorary Doctorate of the University of GranadaAward1992Honorary Doctor of the University of AlicanteAward1989Honorary Doctorate from the University of Nice-Sophia AntipolisAward1986Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Sports MeritAward1980Grand Cross of the Order of Charles IIIAward1975Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the CatholicAward1974Grand Cross of the Aeronautical Merit - White DecorationAward1968Grand Cross of the Order of CisnerosAward1967Grand Cross of Naval Merit with white badgeAward1920Born17 July 1920

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Awards

La Vanguardia Prize2023
China Reform Friendship Medal2018
Medal and Plaque of Tourist Merit2006
Honorary Doctor of the Zhejiang University2005
Gold Olympic Order2001
Order of the Golden Fleece2001
Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay2000
Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross2000
Philippe Chatrier Award2000
Honorary Doctorate of the University of Granada1997
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University1995
Honorary Doctor of the University of Alicante1992
Honorary Doctor of Comenius University1992
Honorary Doctorate from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis1989
Princess of Asturias Award for Sports1988
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Sports Merit1986
Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise1982
Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III1980
Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic1975
Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic1975
Grand Cross of the Aeronautical Merit - White Decoration1974
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit for Agriculture1970
Grand Cross of the Order of Cisneros1968
Grand Cross of the Cross of Military Merit with White Decoration1968
Grand Cross of Naval Merit with white badge1967
Order of Honour
Grand Order of King Tomislav
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Order of the Republic
Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia
Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit
Honorary Doctorate at the Laval University
Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Order of Charles III
Order of Isabella the Catholic
Order of Civil Merit
Order of Cisneros

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Juan Antonio Samaranch came up through Spanish sports administration under Franco, serving the regime from 1973 to 1977. In 1980 he took the helm of the International Olympic Committee as its seventh president. Over the next two decades he steered the organization through a transformation that redrew the economics and scale of the Games themselves. By the time he stepped down in 2001, the Olympics had become something entirely different from what he'd inherited. He died in April 2010.

Country
Spain
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1920 to 2010 · aged 89

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