Olympic Hymn – Wikipedia

Olympics City Language performed Notes 1896 Summer Athens,
 Greece Greek The anthem was performed for the first time at the opening ceremony. 1960 Winter Squaw Valley,

 United States English This was the first time that the Olympic Hymn was performed since the Athens 1896 games. 1964 Summer Tokyo,
 Japan Japanese The anthem was sung in Japanese at the opening[7] and closing ceremonies.[8] 1972 Summer Munich,

 West Germany Instrumental An instrumental arrangement was used during the opening and closing ceremonies.[9] 1976 Winter Innsbruck,
 Austria Greek (opening)
Instrumental (closing) In the opening ceremony, the anthem was sung in Greek.[10] In the closing ceremony, an instrumental arrangement was used.[11] In both cases, instead of the third verse, the first verse was performed once again. 1976 Summer Montreal,
 Canada Greek The anthem was sung in Greek.[12] 1980 Summer Moscow,
 Soviet Union Russian (opening)
Greek (closing) The anthem was sung in Russian at the opening ceremony then in Greek at the closing ceremony. 1988 Summer Seoul,
 South Korea Korean The anthem was performed in Korean in the opening and closing ceremony.[15] 1992 Winter Albertville,
 France Instrumental The instrumental version of the anthem was used.[16] 1992 Summer Barcelona,
 Spain Catalan, Spanish, and French (opening)
Spanish and English (closing) At the opening ceremony, Alfredo Kraus sang the anthem’s first two stanzas in Catalan and the rest of the anthem in Spanish and French.[17] At the closing ceremony, Plácido Domingo sang it in both Spanish and English lyrics.[18] 1994 Winter Lillehammer,
 Norway Norwegian Sung at both the opening and closing ceremonies by Sissel Kyrkjebø with the Children’s chorus. 1996 Summer Atlanta,
 United States English Performed at the Opening Ceremony by the 300 voices of the Centennial Olympic Choir with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and at the Closing Ceremony by Jennifer Larmore and the Morehouse College Glee Club with the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. 1998 Winter Nagano,
 Japan Japanese Performed by the Nagano Festival Orchestra and sung by the Nagano City Children’s Chorus Group in Japanese. 2002 Winter Salt Lake City,
 United States English Sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Opening Ceremony and by Laura Garff-Lewis at the Closing Ceremony. 2004 Summer Athens,
 Greece Greek In Greek; sung to the arrangement of John Psathas. 2006 Winter Turin,
 Italy Instrumental At these Olympics, an abbreviated version was performed at both the opening and closing ceremonies.[19] 2008 Summer Beijing,
 China Greek The anthem was sung in Greek at both the opening and closing ceremonies by the children’s choir.[20] 2010 Youth  Singapore Greek The anthem was sung in Greek. 2012 Youth Innsbruck,
 Austria Instrumental The instrumental version of the anthem was used at both opening and closing ceremonies. 2016 Youth Lillehammer,
 Norway Norwegian A choral version was sung in Norwegian at both opening and closing ceremonies using the same lyrics from the 1994 Winter Olympics[23] 2018 Winter Pyeongchang,
 South Korea Greek (Opening)
English (Closing) The first Olympics since 2000 Summer Olympics, in Sydney, Australia, and the only Winter Olympics so far in which the anthem was performed in both of the languages preferred by the IOC. It was performed in Greek by Sumi Hwang at the opening ceremony and in English by 11-year-old Oh Yeon-joon at the closing ceremony. 2018 Youth Buenos Aires,
 Argentina English Performed by Luna Sujatovich at the Opening Ceremony and by Melina Moguilevsky at the Closing Ceremony.[24][25] 2020 Youth Lausanne,
 Switzerland English and French (opening)
Instrumental (closing) A bilingual version was sung at the opening ceremony by the children’s choir “Les Petits Chanteurs de Lausanne” 2022 Winter Beijing,
 China Greek The anthem was sung in Greek at both the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony by 40 Children from Malanhua’er Children’s Choir from Hebei Province.