LIST OF FLAGBEARERS BEJING 2008

Country First Name Last Name Sport

Greece Ilias ILIADIS Judo Guinea Fatmata Margaret FOFANAH Athletics Guinea-Bissau Augusto MIDANA Wrestling Turkey Mehmet OZAL Wrestling Turkmenistan Guvanch NURMUHAMMEDOV Judo Yemen Mohammed AL-YAFAEE Athletics Maldives Aminath Rouya HUSSAIN Aquatics Malta Marcon BEZZINA Judo Madagascar Soloniaina RAZANADRAKOTO Boxing Malaysia Mohd Azizulhasni AWANG Cycling Mali Daba Modibo KEITA Taekwondo Malawi Charlton NYIRENDA Aquatics Former Yugoslav Republic of Atanas NIKOLOVSKI Canoe/Kayak Macedonia Marshall Islands Waylon MULLER Official Cayman Islands Ronald FORBES Athletics Bhutan Tashi PELJOR Archery Ecuador Alexandra ESCOBAR Weightlifting SULTAN Eritrea Athletics Simret GHEBREMICHAEL Jamaica Veronica CAMPBELL-BROWN Athletics Belgium Sebastien GODEFROID Sailing Vanuatu Priscila TOMMY Table Tennis Israel Michael KOLGANOV Canoe/Kayak Japan Ai FUKUHARA Table Tennis Chinese Taipei Sheng-Jung LAI Softball Central African DEREBONA Athletics Republic Mireille Hong Kong,China Kam-Po WONG Cycling Gambia Badou JACK Boxing Benin Fabienne FERAEZ Athletics Stephan BUCKLAND Athletics Mauritania Souleymane CHEBAL MOCTAR Athletics Denmark Joachim B. OLSEN Athletics Uganda Ronald SERUGO Boxing Ukraine Yana KLOCHKOVA Aquatics Uruguay Alejandro FOGLIA Sailing Uzbekistan Dilshod MAKHMUDOV Boxing Barbados Bradely ALLY Aquatics Papua New Guinea Ryan PINI Aquatics Brazil Robert SCHEIDT Sailing Paraguay Victor FATECHA Athletics Bahrain Roqaya AL GHASARA Athletics FERGUSON- Bahamas Athletics Debbie McKENZIE Panama Jessica JIMENEZ LUNA Fencing Pakistan Zeeshan ASHRAF Hockey Palestine Nader ALMASSRI Athletics Cuba Mijain LOPEZ Wrestling Burkina Faso Aïssata SOULAMA Athletics Burundi Francine NIYONIZIGIYE Athletics Democratic Republic Mariana of Timor-Leste XIMENES Athletics Qatar Nasser Saleh AL-ATTIYA Shooting GIRIMBABAZI Rwanda Pamela RUGABIRA Aquatics Luxembourg Raphaël STACCHIOTTI Aquatics Chad Albertine HINKISSIA NDIKERT Athletics Belarus Alexander ROMANKOV Fencing India Rajvardhan Singh RATHORE Shooting Indonesia I. Gusti Made Oka SULAKSANA Sailing Lithuania Sarunas JASIKEVICIUS Basketball Niger Lamine ALHOUSSEINI Aquatics Nigeria Bose KAFFO Table Tennis Nicaragua Alexis ARGÜELLO Boxing Nepal Deepak BISTA Taekwondo Ghana Vida ANIM Athletics Canada Adam VAN KOEVERDEN Canoe/Kayak Gabon Mélanie ENGOANG Judo San Marino Daniela DEL DIN Shooting Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kineke ALEXANDER Athletics Saint Lucia Levern SPENCER Athletics Sao Tome and DA GARA SOARES Principe Celma BONFIM Athletics Saint Kitts and Nevis Virgil HODGE Athletics Guyana Niall ROBERTS Aquatics Djibouti Salah Houssein AHMED Olympian Kyrgyzstan Talant DJANAGULOV Judo Lao People’s Suksavanh TONSACKTHEVA Athletics Democratic Republic Armenia Albert AZARYAN Gymnastics Spain David CAL Canoe/Kayak Bermuda Jillian TERCEIRA Equestrian Liechtenstein Marcel TSCHOPP Athletics Congo Pamela Chardene MOUELE MBOUSSI Athletics Democratic Republic MAGALI Athletics of Congo Franka Iraq Hamzah AL-HILFI Rowing Islamic Republic of Iran Homa HOSSEINI Rowing Guatemala Kevin CORDON Badminton Hungary Zoltàn KAMMERER Canoe/Kayak Dominican Republic Felix SANCHEZ Athletics Dominica Jerome ROMAIN Athletics Togo Benjamin BOUKPETI Canoe/Kayak Iceland Orn ARNARSON Aquatics Guam Ricardo BLAS JR Judo Angola Joao N'TYAMBA Athletics Antigua and Barbuda James GROYMON Athletics GARCIA Andorra Canoe/Kayak Montserrat RIBERAYGUA Tonga Ana PO'UHILA Athletics Jordan Zeina SHABAN Table Tennis Equatorial Guinea Emilia MIKUE ONDO Athletics Finland Juha HIRVI Shooting Croatia Ivano BALIC Handball Sudan Abubaker KAKI Athletics Suriname Anthony NESTY Aquatics Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Mohamed BEN SALEH Judo Liberia Jangy ADDY Athletics Belize Jonathan WILLIAMS Athletics Cape Verde Wânia MONTEIRO Gymnastics Cook Islands Sam PERA JNR Weightlifting Mohammed Salman Saudi Arabia AL-KHUWAILDI Athletics H. Salim ILES Aquatics Albania Sahit PRIZRENI Wrestling

United Arab Emirates Sheikha Maitha AL MAKTOUM Taekwondo Argentina Emanuel GINOBILI Basketball Oman Allah Dad AL BALUSHI Shooting Aruba Fiderd VIS Judo Afghanistan Nesar Ahmad BAHAVE Taekwondo

Azerbaijan Farid MANSUROV Wrestling Namibia Mannie HEYMANS Cycling United Republic of Tanzania Fabian NAASI Athletics Latvia Vadims VASILEVSKIS Athletics Great Britain Mark FOSTER Aquatics British Virgin Islands Tahesia HARRIGAN Athletics Kenya Grace Kwamboka MOMANYI Athletics Romania Valeria BESE Handball Palau Elgin Loren ELWAIS Wrestling Tuvalu Logona ESAU Weightlifting Venezuela Maria Jose SOTO GIL Softball Solomon Islands Wendy HALE Weightlifting France Tony ESTANGUET Canoe/Kayak Poland Marek TWARDOWSKI Canoe/Kayak Puerto Rico McWilliams ARROYO ACEVEDO Boxing Bosnia and MEKIC Judo Herzegovina Amel Bangladesh Rubel RANA Aquatics Bolivia Menacho CESAR Shooting Norway Ruth KASIRYE Weightlifting South Africa Natalie DU TOIT Aquatics

Cambodia Hem BUNTING Athletics Kazakhstan Akhmetov BAKHYT Weightlifting Kuwait Abdullah ALRASHIDI Shooting Côte d'Ivoire Affoue Amandine ALLOU Athletics Comoros Ahamada FETA Athletics Bulgaria Petar STOYCHEV Aquatics Russian Federation Andrey KIRILENKO Basketball Syrian Arab Republic Ahed JUGHILI Weightlifting United States of LOMONG Athletics America Lopez Virgin Islands Josh LABAN Aquatics American Samoa Silulu AETONU Judo Honduras Miguel FERRERA Taekwondo Zimbabwe Brian DZINGAI Athletics Tunisia Anis CHADLY Judo Thailand Worapoj PETCHKOOM Boxing Karam IBRAHIM Wrestling Ethiopia Miruts YEFTER Coach Lesotho Tsotang MAINE Athletics Kurt Leonel Da Mozambique Rocha COUTO Athletics Netherlands Jeroen DELMEE Hockey Netherlands Antilles Churandy MARTINA Athletics Grenada Alleyne FRANCIQUE Athletics Georgia Ramaz NOZADZE Wrestling Somalia Duran FARAH Rowing Columbia Maria Luisa CALLE Cycling Costa Rica Allan SEGURA Athletics Trinidad and Tobago George BOVELL II Aquatics Peru Sixto BARRERA Wrestling Ireland Ciara PELLO Sailing Estonia Martin PADAR Judo Haiti Joel BRUTUS Judo Czech Republic Stepanka HILGERTOVA Canoe/Kayak Kiribati David KATOATAU Weightlifting Philippines Manny PACQUIAO Boxing El Salvador Eva Maria DIMAS Weightlifting Samoa Ele OPELOGE Weightlifting Federated States of Micronesia Manuel MINGINFEL Weightlifting Tajikistan Dilshod NAZAROV Athletics Vietnam Nguyen DINH CUONG Athletics Botswana Samantha PAXINOS Aquatics Sri Lanka Susanthika JAYASINGHE Athletics Swaziland Temalangeni DLAMINI Athletics Slovenia Urska ZOLNIR Judo Slovakia Elena KALISKA Canoe/Kayak Portugal Nelson ÉVORA Athletics Korea Sung Ho JANG Judo Fiji Makelesi BULIKIOBO Athletics Franck MOUSSIMA EWANE Judo Republic of Montenegro Veljko USKOKOVIC Water polo Democratic People’s Mun Il PANG MUN IL Athletics Republic of Korea

Chile Fernando GONZALEZ Tennis Austria Hans-Peter STEINACHER Sailing PHONE MYINT Myanmar - TAYZAR Canoe/Kayak Switzerland Roger FEDERER Tennis Sweden Christian OLSSON Athletics Nauru Itte DETENAMO Weightlifting Mongolia Makhgal BAYARJAVKHLAN Judo Singapore Jiawei LI Table Tennis New Zealand Mahe' DRYSDALE Rowing Italy Antonio ROSSI Canoe/Kayak Bineta DIEDHIOU Taekwondo Republic of Serbia Jasna SEKARIC Shooting Seychelles Georgie CUPIDON Badminton Sierra Leone Solomon BAYOH Athletics Cyprus Georgios ACHILLEOS Shooting ESPINOZA Mexico Paola SANCHEZ Diving Lebanon Ziad RICHA Shooting Germany Dirk NOWITZKI Basketball Republic of Moldova Nicolai CEBAN Wrestling Monaco Mathias RAYMOND Rowing Abdelkader KADA Athletics Australia James TOMKINS Rowing Zambia Hastings BWALYA Boxing People's Republic of YAO Basketball China Ming