During the Parade of Nations within the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony on March 4, athletes and officials from each participating country marched in the Beijing National Stadium, preceded by their flag and placard bearer bearing the respective country's name. Each flag bearer was chosen either by the nation's National Paralympic Committee or by the team of athletes themselves.
Parade order Nations marched in the order of the host language, Simplified Chinese. China entered last as host, and Italy entered second-to-last as upcoming host.
As Chinese characters do not have an alphabetical order, they were sorted based on stroke count. Specifically: Characters with fewer strokes march earlier, so New Zealand () marched before Mexico () because has 13 strokes and has 15 strokes. If the initial characters have the same number of strokes, then the stroke orders of the two characters are grouped in the order 橫竖撇捺折 (horizontal/vertical/left falling/right falling/fold). For example, Denmark () marched before Brazil () because has four strokes in the order (3541), while has four strokes in the order (5215). The second characters are not compared, even though has more strokes than . While it is possible to have a pair of characters with the same stroke count and the same stroke order groups, this did not occur during the parade. If the initial characters are identical, the second characters of each nation are used, and so on.
Countries and flag bearers The following is a list of each country's flag bearer. The list is sorted by the sequence that each nation appeared in the Parade of Nations. The names are given in their official designations by the IPC, and the Chinese names follow their official designations by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
OrderNationChinese namePinyinFlag bearerSport/Function 1 Rémi Mazi Alpine skiing2 Cross-country skiing3 Games Volunteer 4 Biathlon5 Aline Rocha Cross-country skiing6 Games Volunteer 7 Ina Forrest Wheelchair curlingGreg Westlake Para ice hockey8 Snowboarding9 Sarah Hundert Alpine skiing10 Elaheh Gholifallah Cross-country skiing11 Richard Dumity Alpine skiing12 Hilmar Orvarsson Alpine skiing13 Games Volunteer 14 Inkki Inola Cross-country skiingMaiju Laurila Alpine skiing15 Snowboarding16 Evangelia Nikou Alpine skiingKonstantinos Petrakis Snowboarding17 Enrique Plantey Alpine skiing18 Mehman Ramazanzade Cross-country skiing19 Ojars Briedis Wheelchair curlingPoļina Rožkova20 Gregor EwanWheelchair curlingMeggan Dawson-Farrell21 Mihăiță Papară SnowboardingLaura Văleanu Alpine skiing22 BiathlonCross-country skiing23 Alpine skiing24 Orlando Pérez Alpine skiing25 Jovica Goreta Alpine skiing26 Wheelchair curling Cross-country skiing27 Yerbol Khamitov Biathlon28 Tyler Carter Alpine skiing Danelle Umstead 29 Lisa Bunschoten Snowboarding Chris Vos30 Temuri Dadiani Cross-country skiing31 Wheelchair curlingMait Mätas32 Zdeněk Krupička Para ice hockey33 Jernej Slivnik Alpine skiing34 Alpine skiingMonika Kunkelová Wheelchair curling35 Baek Hye-jin Wheelchair curling36 Nicolás Bisquertt Alpine skiing37 Barbara Aigner Alpine skiing 38 Hans Burgener Wheelchair curlingRomy Tschopp Snowboarding39 Viljo Petersson-Dahl Wheelchair curlingKristina Ulander40 Batmönkhiin Ganbold Cross-country skiing41 Games Volunteer 42 Alpine skiing43 Biathlon Alpine skiing44 Melissa Perrine Alpine skiingMitchell Gourley45 Alpine skiing46 Guo Yujie BiathlonWang Zhidong Para ice hockey
See also 2022 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations
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