Vitali Smirnov

Vitali Georgyevich Smirnov (Russian: Виталий Георгиевич Смирнов) (born 14 February 1935) is a former Russian member of the International Olympic Committee.

Career

1970–1975 – First Vice-Minister of Sport of the USSR;

1981–1990 – Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation

Sports administration

1975–1981 – Executive President of the Organising Committee of the Games of the XXII Olympiad in Moscow in 1980.

1990–1992 – USSR National Olympic Committee President.

1992–2001 – Russian National Olympic Committee President.

IOC history

1974–1978, 1986–1990 – Member of the Executive Board of the IOC;

1978–1982, 1990–1994, 2001–2005 – Vice-President of the IOC ;

1992–1998 – Chairman of the Eligibility Commission;

1978–1982, 1991–1995, 2003–2004 – member of the Council of the Olympic Order.

Honours and awards
  • Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
    • 1st class (30 January 2020)
    • 2nd class (19 April 2001) - for outstanding contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high achievements in sports at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney in 2000
    • 3rd class (26 August 1996) - for services to the state and the great personal contribution to the development of national sport
    • 4th class (22 April 2010) - for great contribution to the development of national sports and public activities
  • Order of Honour (22 April 1994) - for high athletic achievement at the XVII Olympic Winter Games in 1994
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1985)
  • Order of Friendship of Peoples (1980)
  • Order of the Badge of Honour, three times (1966, 1970 and 1976)
  • Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (6 August 2007) - for active participation in efforts to ensure the victory of the application of Sochi to host the XXII Winter Olympic and XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014
  • Order "Polar Star" (Yakutia, 3 July 2008) - for outstanding service to the Olympic movement and the national sport, a great contribution to the development of youth sports, and the establishment of an International Sports Games "Children of Asia" in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
  • Badge "For Services to Moscow" (14 February 2005) - for his great personal contribution to the international Olympic movement and sport in Moscow
  • Badge "For Services to the Moscow Region" (21 March 2007)

References
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