Thomas Bach is a German lawyer, sports adminstrator, and former foil fencer. He served as the ninth president of the International Olympic Committee, from 2013 to 2025. He was the first Olympic champion to be elected to that position, having won gold in the 1976 men's team foil.
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Sign at the house of Thomas Bach, where he lived in 1953-1977, at the Sonnenplatz in Tauberbischofsheim![Like his predecessors Juan Antonio Samaranch and Jacques Rogge, Thomas Bach stayed at the Lausanne Palace when he was in Lausanne[15]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Hotel_Lausanne_Palace.jpg/1280px-Hotel_Lausanne_Palace.jpg)
Like his predecessors Juan Antonio Samaranch and Jacques Rogge, Thomas Bach stayed at the Lausanne Palace when he was in Lausanne[15]
Bach and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 6 August 2016
Thomas Bach and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
Bach with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, Israel, 21 September 2022
Thomas Bach and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, 3 July 2022In their own words 2
We know that the Olympic Games cannot create peace. But the Olympic Games can create a culture of peace that inspires the world.
Address for the closing ceremonies of the Paris Olympics (11 August 2024)
This is the pinnacle of your Olympic journey. You have come to Paris as athletes. Now you are Olympians.
Address for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics (26 July 2024)
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Beji Caid EssebsiAlso won Order of National Merit
Matti VanhanenAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix
Jean-Claude KillyAlso won Gold Olympic Order
Bohdan StupkaAlso won Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class
Wolfgang SchüsselAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary
Saulius SkvernelisAlso won Order of Merit of the Republic of PolandAbout this person
Thomas Bach is a German lawyer, sports adminstrator, and former foil fencer. He served as the ninth president of the International Olympic Committee, from 2013 to 2025. He was the first Olympic champion to be elected to that position, having won gold in the 1976 men's team foil. Since 2025, he has served as Honorary President of the International Olympic Committee. Bach is also a former German individual foil champion as well as a team world champion, and former member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation's executive board.
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