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The Olympic Cup is an annual award presented by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This award was established in 1906 by Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. The award honors groups or organizations whose work promotes the Olympic spirit, emphasizing fair play, sportsmanship, and unity through sport.

In recent years, the trend has been for the award to recognise the host cities of Olympic and Youth Olympic Games. In 2024, the IOC awarded Olympic Cup to the people of France at a spectacular ceremony on the Champs-Élysées.

The actual Olympic Cup remains at Olympic Museum in Lausanne, instead the recipient is given a bronze plaque and a diploma.

There was no award given in 1956,1958, 1997, 2007 and 2009, and in only Olympic years since 2012.

List of Winners

• 2024: People of France
• 2022: People of the People's Republic of China (for their contribution to the success of the Olympic Games)
• 2018: People of the city of Buenos Aires (for for their outstanding contribution to the Youth Olympic Games 2018)
• 2016: People of the city of Rio de Janeiro
• 2012: The citizens of London
• 2011: South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee and the people of Durban
• 2010: People of Singapore
• 2009: —
• 2008: The citizens of Beijing
• 2007: —
• 2006: People of Turin
• 2005: Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum
• 2004: People of Athens
• 2003: Team Alinghi
• 2002: People of Salt Lake City
• 2001: Kip Keino School, Eldoret
• 2000: City of Sydney
• 1999: United Nations Organization
• 1998: People of Nagano
• 1997: —
• 1996: City of Baden-Baden
• 1995: Korean Sport & Olympic Committee
• 1994: People of Norway
• 1994: French National Olympic and Sports Committee
• 1993: Monégasque Olympic Committee
• 1992: City of Barcelona
• 1992: Department of Savoie
• 1991: Japanese Olympic Committee
• 1990: Panellinios Athletic Club in Athens
• 1989: La Gazzetta dello Sport
• 1989: City of Seoul
• 1988: People of Australia
• 1988: L'Équipe
• 1986: City of Stuttgart (for The excellent organization and the fairness of the audience at the European Athletics Championships)
• 1985: Chinese Olympic Committee
• 1984: Organizing Committee of the 1983 World Championships in Athletics
• 1983: Puerto Rico Olympic Committee
• 1982: Racing Club de France
• 1981: Swiss Confederation, International Olympic Academy
• 1980: Ginásio Clube Portugues
• 1979: Organizing Committee of the 1978 World Rowing Championships in New Zealand
• 1978: Hellenic Olympic Committee
• 1977: Olympic Committee of Ivory Coast
• 1976: Czechoslovakian Physical Culture and Sports Federation
• 1975: Italian National Olympic Committee
• 1974: Bulgarian Olympic Committee
• 1973: People of Munich
• 1972: City of Sapporo
• 1972: Turkish Olympic Committee (for the organization of the Izmir Games)
• 1971: Organizing Committee of the 1971 Pan American Games
• 1970: Organizing Committee of the 1966 and 1970 Asian Games
• 1969: Polish Olympic Committee
• 1968: People of Mexico City
• 1967: Bolivarian Games
• 1966: International Committee of Silent Sports
• 1965: City of Tokyo
• 1964: Southern Californian Committee for the Olympic Games, Los Angeles
• 1963: Australian British Empire and Commonwealth Games Association
• 1962: Organizing Committee of the 1961 Bolivarian Games
• 1961: Helms Athletic Foundation, Los Angeles
• 1960: Italian University Sports Centre
• 1959: Panathlon Italiano, Genoa
• 1958: —
• 1957: Silent Sports Federation of Italy
• 1956: —
• 1955: Organizing Committee of the 1955 Pan American Games
• 1955: Organizing Committee of the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games
• 1954: Federal School of Gymnastics and Sports of Switzerland
• 1953: City of Helsinki
• 1952: City of Oslo
• 1951: Académie des Sports, Paris
• 1950: New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association
• 1950: Belgian Olympic Committee
• 1949: Fluminense Football Club
• 1948: Central Council of Physical Recreation
• 1947: J. Sigfrid Edström, President of the IOC
• 1946: Olympic Committee of Colombia
• 1945: Norwegian Athletics Association
• 1944: City of Lausanne
• 1943: Argentine Olympic Committee
• 1942: William May Garland
• 1941: Finnish Olympic Committee
• 1940: Swedish Gymnastics
• 1939: Strength through Joy (an organization for promoting Nazism through subsidised leisure activities)
• 1938: Royal Academy of Physical Education of Hungary
• 1937: Austrian Skating Union
• 1936: Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association
• 1935: National Recreation and Park Association
• 1934: Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro
• 1933: Swiss Federal Society of Gymnastics
• 1932: German College of Physical Education
• 1931: National Playing Fields Association, Great Britain
• 1930: Swiss Football and Athletic Association
• 1929: YMCA World Committee
• 1928: Junta Nacional Mexicana
• 1927: Colonel Robert M. Thomson
• 1926: Norwegian Skiing Federation
• 1925: National Physical Education Committee of Uruguay
• 1924: Athletic and Gymnastic Federation of Finland
• 1923: Sports Association of Catalonia
• 1922: Amateur Athletic Union of Canada
• 1921: Danish Sports Federation
• 1920: Y.M.C.A. International College, Springfield
• 1919: Olympic Institute of Lausanne
• 1918: Sports Teams of the Allied Front
• 1917: Dutch Football Association
• 1916: Confrérie Saint-Michel de Gand
• 1915: Rugby School
• 1914: Amateur Athletic Union of America
• 1913: Hungarian Athletic Club
• 1912: Union of Gymnastics Societies of France
• 1911: Touring Club Italiano
• 1910: The Sokol movement
• 1909: German Gymnastics
• 1908: Swedish Central Association for the Promotion of Sports
• 1907: Henley Royal Regatta
• 1906: Touring Club of France

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