Editing Juan Antonio Samaranch

{{for|his son|Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs}}
{{Short description|President of the IOC from 1980 to 2001}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{family name hatnote|Samaranch|Torelló|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Most Excellent]]
| name                = The Marquess of Samaranch
| image               = JASamaranch.jpg
| caption             = Samaranch in 1998
| order               = 
| office              = 7th [[President of the International Olympic Committee]]
| term_start          = 3 August 1980
| term_end            = 16 July 2001
| predecessor         = [[Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin|Lord Killanin]]
| successor           = [[Jacques Rogge]]
| office2             = Honorary President of the International Olympic Committee
| term_start2         = 16 July 2001
| term_end2           = 21 April 2010
| president2          = Jacques Rogge
| predecessor2        = ''Vacant'', last held by Lord Killanin (1999)
| successor2          = ''Vacant'', next held by Jacques Rogge (2013)
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1920|7|17|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Barcelona]], [[Restoration (Spain)|Spain]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|2010|4|21|1920|7|17|df=y}}
| death_place         = Barcelona, Spain
| nationality         = Spanish
| spouse              = {{marriage|María Teresa Salisachs Rowe|1955|2000|end=d.}}
| children            = María Teresa Samaranch Salisachs, 2nd Marchioness of Samaranch<br /> [[Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs]]
| residence           = Barcelona, Spain
| alma_mater          = [[IESE Business School|IESE, Universidad de Navarra]]
| occupation          = Sports administrator<br />Diplomat
| profession          = 
| signature           = 
| website             = 
| footnotes           = 
| awards              = 
}}
'''Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch''' ([[Catalan language|Catalan]]: ''Joan Antoni Samaranch i Torelló'', {{IPA|ca|ʒuˈan ənˈtɔni səməˈɾaŋ}}; 17 July 1920 – 21 April 2010) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] sports administrator under the [[Franco regime]] (1973–1977) who served as the seventh [[president of the International Olympic Committee]] ([[International Olympic Committee|IOC]]) from 1980 to 2001.<ref>Obituary ''[[The Times]]'', 22 April 2010.</ref><ref>Obituary ''[[The Guardian]]'', 22 April 2010.</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/juan-antonio-samaranch-administrator-who-survived-two-decades-of-controversy-at-the-head-of-the-international-olympic-committee-1950610.html Juan Antonio Samaranch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925112502/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/juan-antonio-samaranch-administrator-who-survived-two-decades-of-controversy-at-the-head-of-the-international-olympic-committee-1950610.html |date=25 September 2015 }} – ''The Independent'' Obituary – 22 April 2010 (By Martin Childs)</ref>

==Life==
Juan Antonio Samaranch was born on 17 July 1920 in Barcelona as the third of six children in a wealthy [[Catalan people|Catalan]] family. In 1938, during the [[Spanish Civil War]], he was conscripted to serve as a medical assistant in the [[Spanish Republican Armed Forces]]. Samaranch's political sympathies were for the [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|Nationalists]], and he deserted to Nationalist-held territory by way of France.<ref>{{cite news |title=La larga carrera de un hombre polifacético |url=https://elpais.com/deportes/2010/04/21/actualidad/1271834520_850215.html |access-date=27 February 2020 |agency=[[El País]] |date=21 April 2010 |archive-date=27 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227152243/https://elpais.com/deportes/2010/04/21/actualidad/1271834520_850215.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On 1 December 1955, he married Maria Teresa Salisachs Rowe. With Salisachs Rowe, he had two children: [[Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs|Juan Antonio Junior]], currently a member of the International Olympic Committee, and Maria Teresa.

Samaranch started his studies at the Business School of Barcelona, which he completed in London and the US, and obtained a diploma from the Barcelona Higher Institute of Business Studies (IESE). During his studies, he practised roller hockey, for which he created World Championships in 1951 and which the Spanish team won.

A member of the [[FET y de las JONS|Falange]] in [[Francoist Spain]],<ref>{{cite news |title=As Questions Continue to Swirl Critics Point to Samaranch's Past |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB94452852840011626 |access-date=27 February 2020 |publisher=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=7 December 1999 |archive-date=27 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227152243/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB94452852840011626 |url-status=live }}</ref> Samaranch held various political positions in municipal and national government: he became a city councilor for the city of Barcelona responsible for sport in 1954, then delegate for physical education and sport in the Spanish Parliament in 1967. Samaranch was appointed president of the provincial council of Barcelona in 1973, until he resigned four years later, when he was appointed Spanish Ambassador to the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Mongolia]] after the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Maintaining an active career within the Olympic Movement, Samaranch was elected vice-president of the International Mediterranean Games Committee for the second edition of the Games in Barcelona in 1955. On several occasions, he was appointed Chef de Mission: for the Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo (1956), the Summer Games in Rome (1960), and the Summer Games in Tokyo (1964). For the Rome and Tokyo Games, he was also president of the Spanish delegation. Elected a member of the Spanish Olympic Committee in 1956, he became its president in 1967 until 1970. He was elected as an IOC member in 1966. Two years later, Avery Brundage appointed him head of protocol (1968–1975 and 1979–1980). A member of the executive board (1970–1978 and 1979–1980), he was IOC vice-president from 1974 to 1978. Elected to the IOC presidency in the first round of voting on 16 July 1980 at the 83rd Session, he succeeded Lord Killanin on 3 August that year.

Samaranch acceded to the IOC presidency during the troubled political period of the Games of the XXII Olympiad in Moscow. He sought to defend the Olympic movement and raise its profile on his numerous trips and meetings with heads of state and sports leaders. In 1981, he obtained for the IOC the status of non-governmental international organisation and became the first IOC President, after Pierre de Coubertin, to establish himself in Lausanne. He was also in favour of the integration of women into the Olympic Movement, and during the Baden-Baden Congress gained permission for women to become members of the IOC. At his instigation, the IOC became involved in various initiatives to promote women and sport.

Samaranch managed to include both the NOC of the People's Republic of China and that of Chinese Taipei; with the assistance of [[Kéba Mbaye]], he contributed to the reintegration of South Africa into the Olympics after the abolition of apartheid; he visited Sarajevo during the civil war to express Olympic solidarity; and the two Koreas marched under the same flag at the opening ceremony in Sydney.

For sport, he intensified the IOC's support to organise Paralympic Games as from the Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984. He also made doping a priority issue by launching research and control programmes. The creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency in 1999 allowed the IOC Medical Commission to extend its scope of action. He also full opening of the Olympic Games to the best athletes regardless of their status. Finally, it was under his presidency that the Summer and Winter Games were organised two years apart, instead of in the same year.

Among the reforms to the running of the IOC, he imposed a new financial policy which allowed for the increase in revenues and the diversification of resources. Thanks to a large share of the revenues generated by agreements with TV channels, he restructured Olympic Solidarity in 1981 and provided assistance to National Olympic Committees in difficulty, and developed action plans to contribute to the universality of the Games.

In 1991 he received the title of Marqués from the King of Spain for his involvement in the Olympic Movement. On 23 June 1993, the inauguration of the [[Olympic Museum]], representing the memory and spirit of modern Olympism, the work of his career, crowned his presidency. On 16 July 2001, he left the seat of the IOC presidency to [[Jacques Rogge]]. Samaranch became Honorary Life President of the IOC and was awarded the Gold [[Olympic Order]] upon standing down from the presidency. The IOC also voted to change the name of the Olympic Museum to the Samaranch Museum.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/in_depth/2001/olympic_votes/1436765.stm|title = Samaranch honoured|date = 16 July 2001|access-date = 6 January 2019|archive-date = 25 July 2004|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040725023903/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/in_depth/2001/olympic_votes/1436765.stm|url-status = live}}</ref>

Samaranch was a devout Catholic and was a supernumerary (lay member) of [[Opus Dei]].<ref>{{cite web|title=DAS OPUS DEI AUF DEM VORMARSCH|periodical=|publisher=|url=https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!1259560|url-status=live|format=|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519104512/https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!1259560|archive-date=19 May 2024|author=FRANÇOIS NORMAND|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}</ref><ref>{{citation|surname1=Robert Hutchison|title=Die Heilige Mafia Des Papstes|at=p.&nbsp;150|language=German|url=https://en.calameo.com/read/006026693766e48f63a5d|access-date=10 July 2021|archive-date=28 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828024000/https://en.calameo.com/read/006026693766e48f63a5d|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Personenkult im IOC: Ministrant Bach in der Tradition des Supernumerariers Samaranch|periodical=|publisher=|url=https://www.jensweinreich.de/2020/07/18/personenkult-im-ioc-ministrant-bach-in-der-tradition-des-supernumerariers-samaranch/|url-status=live|format=|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108190414/https://www.jensweinreich.de/2020/07/18/personenkult-im-ioc-ministrant-bach-in-der-tradition-des-supernumerariers-samaranch/|archive-date=8 November 2023|author=Jens Weinreich|date=18 July 2020|language=|pages=|quote=}}</ref>

He died on 21 April 2010 at the age of 89, in Barcelona.

==Business and political career==
[[File:World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 1987.jpg|thumb|Samaranch (middle) at the [[World Economic Forum]] Annual Meeting in 1987]]
After actively participating in the [[Spanish Civil War]], Samaranch studied commerce at [[IESE Business School]] in Barcelona. He had a short career as a sports journalist for ''La Prensa'', which ended in his dismissal in 1943 for criticising the supporters of [[Real Madrid C.F.]] after that club's 11–1 defeat of [[FC Barcelona]], and then joined his family's textile business. He joined the board of [[La Caixa]], Spain's largest savings bank, in 1984, and served as president of the board from 1987 to 1999. He remained as honorary president from his retirement in 1999 to his death.<ref name="ElPais">{{citation | title = La larga carrera de un hombre polifacético | url = http://www.elpais.com/articulo/deportes/larga/carrera/hombre/polifacetico/elpepudep/20100421elpepudep_9/Tes | newspaper = El País | date = 21 April 2010 | access-date = 21 April 2010 | archive-date = 13 May 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110513114249/http://www.elpais.com/articulo/deportes/larga/carrera/hombre/polifacetico/elpepudep/20100421elpepudep_9/Tes | url-status = live }}. {{in lang|es}}</ref>

Samaranch served on the municipal government of Barcelona, with responsibility for sports, from 1955 to 1962. He was a ''procurador'' (member of the lower house) of the [[Cortes Españolas]] during the last decade of the [[Francoist Spain|Franco regime]], from 1964 until the [[Spanish transition to democracy|restoration of democracy]] in 1977. From 1967 to 1971, he also served as "national delegate" (minister) for sports, and from 1973 to 1977 he was the president of the ''diputación'' (governing council) of the [[Province of Barcelona]]. He was appointed Spanish ambassador to the Soviet Union and Mongolia in 1977, immediately after the restoration of [[Diplomacy|diplomatic relations]] between the countries: this post helped him to gain the support of the [[Eastern Bloc|Soviet bloc]] countries in the election to the presidency of the IOC, held in Moscow in 1980.<ref name="ElPais"/>

He had been the ''[[Head of mission|chef de mission]]'' of the Spanish team at a number of Olympic events, before he was appointed Government Secretary for Sports by Spanish Head of State [[Francisco Franco]] in 1967. He also became the president of the Spanish National Olympic Committee and a member of the IOC. He was vice-president of the IOC from 1974 to 1978.

==IOC Presidency==
[[File:Juan Antonio Samaranch and Jean-Pascal Delamuraz by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|thumb|Samaranch (left) and [[Jean-Pascal Delamuraz]] (c. 1982–1984)]]
Samaranch became [[President of the International Olympic Committee|President]] elect in 1980 at the 83rd [[List of IOC meetings|IOC Session]] (15–18 July) which was held in Moscow prior to the [[1980 Summer Olympics]]—and took office soon after the Games.<ref>{{cite book|title=Olympic Review|volume=N154|date=August 1980|pages=410–412|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1980/ore154/ORE154k.pdf|access-date=26 June 2012|archive-date=8 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808170934/http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1980/ore154/ORE154k.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

During his term, Samaranch oversaw the Olympic Games returned to financial health, with big television deals and sponsorships established through the efforts of [[Dick Pound]], President of the Canadian Olympic Committee. Although the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] were still boycotted by the Soviet bloc, 140 [[National Olympic Committee]]s took part in those Games, a record number at the time.<ref>{{cite news|title=NO BOYCOTT BLUES|url=https://www.olympic.org/los-angeles-1984|website=olympic.org|access-date=January 6, 2017|archive-date=27 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627065520/https://www.olympic.org/los-angeles-1984|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="IOC">{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1984|title=Games of the XXIII Olympiad|publisher=International Olympic Committee| access-date=August 31, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830223138/http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1984| archive-date=August 30, 2008| url-status=live}}</ref> and the number of participating member nations increased at every Games during Samaranch's presidency. Samaranch also wanted the best athletes to compete in the Olympics, which led to the gradual acceptance of professional athletes as opposed to amateurs or state-funded athletes, as was the case with the Soviet Union.

He was awarded the 1990 [[Seoul Peace Prize]].

It became a tradition for Samaranch, when giving the president's address at the close of each Summer Olympics, to praise the organisers at each Olympiad for putting on "the best ever" Games.<ref name="Best ever">{{cite news|first=Simon|last=Kuper|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/be6c3c56-6e64-11dc-b818-0000779fd2ac.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/be6c3c56-6e64-11dc-b818-0000779fd2ac.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|title=Beijing strikes gold in the propaganda Olympics|newspaper=Financial Times|date=29 September 2007|page=10}}</ref><ref name="Atlanta criticism">{{cite news|title=The Coca Cola Olympics|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=5 August 1996|page=15}}</ref>

In 2001, Samaranch did not apply for the presidency again. He was succeeded by [[Jacques Rogge]]. He then became honorary president for life of the International Olympic Committee. Samaranch served the second-longest term as the head of the IOC, 21 years, the longest being that of [[Pierre de Coubertin]] (29 years). Following his retirement, Samaranch played a major role in [[Madrid]]'s bid for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, though both were unsuccessful. In 1991, he was raised into the [[Spanish nobility]] by [[Juan Carlos I of Spain|King Juan Carlos of Spain]] and given the hereditary title of ''[[Marquessate of Samaranch|Marqués de Samaranch]]'' (''Marquess of Samaranch''), this in recognition of his contribution to the Olympic movement.<ref name="beeb">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/8633190.stm|title=Ex-Olympic chief Juan Antonio Samaranch dies|date=21 April 2010 |work=BBC Sport|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=21 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://boe.es/boe/dias/1991/12/31/pdfs/A42047-42047.pdf |title=Boletin Oficial del Estado: Royal Decree 1861/1991 |access-date=22 April 2010 |archive-date=26 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626195315/http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1991/12/31/pdfs/A42047-42047.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Family==
Samaranch married María Teresa Salisachs Rowe, known as "Bibí" (26 December 1931{{spaced ndash}}16 September 2000), on 1 December 1955. She died in Spain while he was attending the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] in Sydney. Two children were born of this marriage: his elder child and daughter, María Teresa Samaranch Salisachs (born 1956), has been president of the Spanish Federation of Sports on Ice since 2005,<ref name="ElPais"/> while his younger child and son, [[Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs]] (born 1959), has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2001.

==Death and legacy==
[[File:View of Koševo and Zetra.jpg|thumb|right|[[Zetra Olympic Hall, Sarajevo|Olympic Hall Juan Antonio Samaranch]], formerly Olympic Hall Zetra, in [[Sarajevo]]]]
Samaranch died of cardio-respiratory failure in the Hospital Quirón in [[Barcelona]] on 21 April 2010, having suffered ill health for several years prior.<ref name="ElPeriodico">{{citation|title=Juan Antonio Samaranch mor a Barcelona |newspaper=El Periódico de Catalunya |date=21 April 2010 |url=http://www.elperiodico.cat/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAT&idnoticia_PK=706689&idseccio_PK=1011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428161456/http://elperiodico.cat/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAT&idnoticia_PK=706689&idseccio_PK=1011 |archive-date=28 April 2010 }}.</ref>

As a recipient of the Gold Medal of the [[Generalitat de Catalunya]], Samaranch was laid-in-state in the [[Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya|Palau de la Generalitat]]. His funeral mass was held in the [[Cathedral of Santa Eulalia]], on 22 April 2010 and was attended by representatives of the Spanish royal family and of the Olympic movement.<ref name="ElPeriodico"/><ref>{{citation | url = http://www.abc.es/20100421/deportes-mas-deportes-olimpiadas/samaranch-reyes-201004211849.html | newspaper = ABC | date = 21 April 2010 | title = Los Reyes y las Infantas acudirán al funeral de Samaranch | access-date = 21 April 2010 | archive-date = 1 October 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181001220451/http://www.abc.es/20100421/deportes-mas-deportes-olimpiadas/samaranch-reyes-201004211849.html | url-status = live }}. {{in lang|es}}</ref><ref name="statefuneral">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63L4YR20100422|title=Samaranch given state-like funeral in Barcelona|last=Rogers|first=Ian|display-authors=etal|work=Reuters|access-date=23 April 2010|date=22 April 2010|archive-date=3 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503014307/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63L4YR20100422|url-status=live}}</ref> He was buried at the [[Montjuïc Cemetery]].<ref name="statefuneral"/> After his death, in June 2010, the [[Olympic and Sports Museum Joan Antoni Samaranch|Juan Antonio Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum]] and the [[Zetra Olympic Hall, Sarajevo|Olympic Hall Juan Antonio Samaranch]], formerly Olympic Hall Zetra, in [[Sarajevo]], Bosnia, were renamed in his honour.

==Honours and awards==
=== National honours ===
*{{flag|Spain}}:
**In 1991, created 1st [[Marquessate of Samaranch|Marquess of Samaranch]] by royal decree
**Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of Charles III]] (20 October 1980)<ref>[https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1980/10/29/pdfs/A24100-24100.pdf Boletín Oficial del Estado]</ref>
**[[Order of Isabella the Catholic]]
***Knight Grand Cross (29 September 1975)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1975/10/01/pdfs/A20771-20771.pdf |title=Boletín Oficial del Estado |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=8 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408213328/http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1975/10/01/pdfs/A20771-20771.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
***Collar (31 March 2000)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2000/04/01/pdfs/A13765-13765.pdf |title=Boletín Oficial del Estado |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=28 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128175829/http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2000/04/01/pdfs/A13765-13765.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
** Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of Civil Merit]] (1 April 1959)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1959/078/A04936-04936.pdf |title=Boletín Oficial del Estado |access-date=13 April 2014 |archive-date=14 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414172058/http://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1959/078/A04936-04936.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
** Grand Cross of the Order of Cisneros (1 October 1968)<ref>[http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1968/10/01/pdfs/A13997-13997.pdf Boletín Oficial del Estado]</ref>
** Grand Cross of the [[Royal Order of Sports Merit]] (5 December 1986)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1986/12/06/pdfs/A40225-40225.pdf |title=Boletín Oficial del Estado |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=8 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408212425/https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1986/12/06/pdfs/A40225-40225.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
**Gold Medal of the [[Generalitat de Catalunya]] (1985)

=== Foreign honours ===
*{{flag|Poland}}: Commander with Star of the [[Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland]] (1994)
*{{flag|Austria}}: [[Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria|Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in Gold with Star]] (1994)<ref>http://www.sportministerium.at/files/doc/Auszeichnungen-Ehrungen/Hall-of-Fame.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511233219/http://www.sportministerium.at/files/doc/Auszeichnungen-Ehrungen/Hall-of-Fame.pdf |date=11 May 2013 }} {{in lang|de}}</ref>
*{{flag|Yugoslavia}}: [[Order of the Yugoslav Flag|Order of the Yugoslav Flag with Sash]] (9 January 1984)
*{{flag|Estonia}}: [[Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana]], First Class (2003)
*{{flag|Croatia}}: Grand Cross of the [[Grand Order of King Tomislav]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/1993_09_81_1646.html|title=Odluka o dodjeli Ordena kralja Tomislava|trans-title=Decision on the Assignment of the Order of King Tomislav|date=26 August 1993|language=hr|work=[[Narodne novine]]|quote=Mr. Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, which included the Croatian Olympic sport into the great worldwide community of the Olympic movement, contributing to the international recognition of the sovereign and independent Republic of Croatia. His merit has enabled Croatian athletes to represent their nation for the first time in history in the Olympics in Albertville and Barcelona, thus permanently joining the global Olympic family. With this extraordinary act, the Republic of Croatia was included in the International Olympic Committee before being invited to be a member of the United Nations.|access-date=29 September 2018|archive-date=29 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929194705/https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/1993_09_81_1646.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*{{flag|Georgia}}: [[Order of the Golden Fleece (Georgia)|Order of the Golden Fleece]] (2001)
*{{flag|Philippines}}: Grand Cross of the Ancient [[Order of Sikatuna]] (11 April 2001)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/the-order-of-sikatuna/ |title=The Order of Sikatuna |newspaper=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines |access-date=22 May 2020 |archive-date=25 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825092055/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/the-order-of-sikatuna/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flag|Lithuania}}: Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas]] (4 April 1994)
*{{flag|Moldova}}: [[Order of the Republic (Moldova)|Order of the Republic]] (14 May 1999)
*{{flag|Russia}}:
** [[Order of Friendship]] (14 July 1994)<ref>{{cite web |title=О награждении орденом Дружбы народов президента Международного олимпийского комитета Хуана Антонио Самаранча |url=http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?doc_itself=&nd=102031285&page=1&rdk=0#I0 |website=pravo.gov.ru |publisher=[[Government of Russia]] |access-date=22 April 2021 |language=ru |archive-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422062600/http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?doc_itself=&nd=102031285&page=1&rdk=0#I0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Order of Honour (Russia)|Order of Honour]] (25 June 2001)
*{{flag|Slovakia}}: [[Order of the White Double Cross]], 1st Class (2000)<ref>Slovak republic website, [http://www.slovak-republic.org/symbols/honours/ State honours] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413004835/http://www.slovak-republic.org/symbols/honours/ |date=13 April 2016 }} : 1st Class in 2000 (click on "Holders of the Order of the 1st Class White Double Cross" to see the holders' table)</ref>
*{{flag|Thailand}}: [[Order of the Direkgunabhorn]] First class (7 March 2000)<ref>https://ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/documents/1721920.pdf </ref>
*{{flag|Ukraine}}: [[Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise]] Third class (21 May 2005)
*{{Flag|Uruguay}}: [[Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay]] (2000)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Resolución N° 136/000|url=https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/resoluciones/136-2000|access-date=2020-11-28|website=www.impo.com.uy|archive-date=22 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422041936/https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/resoluciones/136-2000|url-status=live}}</ref>
*{{flag|Italy}}:
**Grand Officer of the [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]] (2 June 1971)<ref>[http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=253806 Quirinale] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408212942/http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=253806 |date= 8 April 2014 }}</ref>
**Grand Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]] (Italy, 27 January 1981)<ref>[http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=16094 Quirinale] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408224134/http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=16094 |date= 8 April 2014 }}</ref>
*Honorary Member of the [[Club de Santander Palomar]]

=== Academic awards ===
*Doctor Honoris Causa by the [[University of Alicante]] (1992), [[University of Granada]] (1997), [[Universidad Camilo José Cela]] (2002), [[University of Huelva]] (2003), [[Zhejiang University]] (2006) and [[European University of Madrid|Universidad Europea de Madrid]] (2009)

=== Awards and other recognition ===
*?: Member of the [[Académie Française des Sports]]{{cn|date=December 2024}} 
*1982: Cup Stadium for the promotion of Spanish sport{{cn|date=December 2024}} 
*1988: Prince of Asturias Award for Sports{{cn|date=December 2024}} 
*1988: South Korean Peace Prize<ref>{{Cite web |title=Juan Antonio Samaranch |url=https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/1988-juan-antonio-samaranch/?texto=trayectoria#:~:text=A%20doctor%C2%A0honoris%20causa%C2%A0of%20various%20universities%2C%20he%20holds%20the%20Peace%20Prize%20awarded%20by%20South%20Korea%2C%20and%20various%20Grand%20Crosses |access-date=March 16, 2025 |website=Fundación Princesa de Asturias}}</ref>
*1986: Named president of [[La Caixa]] banking foundation, having been a member advisor since 1984{{cn|date=December 2024}} 
*2010: [[Sport Movies & TV – Milano International FICTS Fest|Excellence Guirlande d'Honneur]], awarded by the [[FICTS (Fédération Internationale Cinéma Télévision Sportifs)|FICTS]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sportmoviestv.com/2010/06/17/lomaggio-della-ficts-al-marchese-juan-antonio-samaranch/|title=L'OMAGGIO DELLA FICTS AL MARCHESE JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH|date=17 June 2010|website=Ficts|access-date=25 May 2017|archive-date=28 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828024000/http://www.sportmoviestv.com/2010/06/17/lomaggio-della-ficts-al-marchese-juan-antonio-samaranch/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2016: Inducted into the [[FIBA Hall of Fame]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hall Of Famers |url=https://about.fiba.basketball/en/fiba-hall-of-fame/hall-of-famers |access-date=March 16, 2025 |website=Fédération Internationale de Basketball}}</ref>
*2023: Posthumously awarded the Premio In Memoriam in the inaugural [[Premios Vanguardia]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Entrega de la primera edición de los "Premios La Vanguardia" | website=Castellano | date=18 September 2023 | url=https://casareal.es/ES/Actividades/Paginas/actividades_actividades_detalle.aspx?data=15867 | language=es | access-date=22 December 2024}}</ref> presented at the [[National Museum of Art of Catalonia]] in [[Barcelona]] in 2023 by the [[Felipe VI|King Felipe]] of Spain<ref>{{cite web | title=Spanish King and Queen attended 'La Vanguardia Awards' ceremony | website=Newmyroyals | date=19 September 2023 | url=https://www.newmyroyals.com/2023/09/spanish-king-and-queen-attended-la.html | access-date=21 December 2024}}</ref>

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==See also==
*[[Zetra Olympic Hall, Sarajevo]]
* [[Olympic and Sports Museum Joan Antoni Samaranch|Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum]]

==References==
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==External links==
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