Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Host stadium (shown in 2009)
Dates	6-13 July
No. of events	27
Competitors	386 from 34 nations

At the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, 27 athletics events were contested, all for men only. The competitions were held from 6 to 13 July.^[1]

There were no events in athletics for women at this edition of the Olympic Games.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 metres details	Harold Abrahams  Great Britain	Jackson Scholz  United States	Arthur Porritt  New Zealand
200 metres details	Jackson Scholz  United States	Charles Paddock  United States	Eric Liddell  Great Britain
400 metres details	Eric Liddell  Great Britain	Horatio Fitch  United States	Guy Butler  Great Britain
800 metres details	Douglas Lowe  Great Britain	Paul Martin  Switzerland	Schuyler Enck  United States
1500 metres details	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	Willy Schärer  Switzerland	H. B. Stallard  Great Britain
5000 metres details	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	Ville Ritola  Finland	Edvin Wide  Sweden
10,000 metres details	Ville Ritola  Finland	Edvin Wide  Sweden	Eero Berg  Finland
110 metres hurdles details	Daniel Kinsey  United States	Sid Atkinson  South Africa	Sten Pettersson  Sweden
400 metres hurdles details	Morgan Taylor  United States	Erik Vilen  Finland	Ivan Riley  United States
3000 metres steeplechase details	Ville Ritola  Finland	Elias Katz  Finland	Paul Bontemps  France
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Loren Murchison Louis Clarke Frank Hussey Alfred LeConey	Great Britain (GBR) Harold Abrahams Walter Rangeley Wilfred Nichol Lancelot Royle	Netherlands (NED) Jan de Vries Jacob Boot Harry Broos Marinus van den Berge
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Commodore Cochran Alan Helffrich Oliver MacDonald William Stevenson	Sweden (SWE) Artur Svensson Erik Byléhn Gustaf Wejnarth Nils Engdahl	Great Britain (GBR) Edward Toms George Renwick Richard Ripley Guy Butler
3000 metres team race details	Finland (FIN) Paavo Nurmi Ville Ritola Elias Katz	Great Britain (GBR) Bertram Macdonald Herbert Johnston George Webber	United States (USA) Edward Kirby William Cox Willard Tibbetts
Marathon details	Albin Stenroos  Finland	Romeo Bertini  Italy	Clarence DeMar  United States
10 kilometres walk details	Ugo Frigerio  Italy	Gordon Goodwin  Great Britain	Cecil McMaster  South Africa
Individual cross country details	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	Ville Ritola  Finland	Earl Johnson  United States
Team cross country details	Finland (FIN) Paavo Nurmi Ville Ritola Heikki Liimatainen	United States (USA) Earl Johnson Arthur Studenroth August Fager	France (FRA) Henri Lauvaux Gaston Heuet Maurice Norland
High jump details	Harold Osborn  United States	Leroy Brown  United States	Pierre Lewden  France
Pole vault details	Lee Barnes  United States	Glenn Graham  United States	James Brooker  United States
Long jump details	DeHart Hubbard  United States	Edward Gourdin  United States	Sverre Hansen  Norway
Triple jump details	Nick Winter  Australia	Luis Brunetto  Argentina	Vilho Tuulos  Finland
Shot put details	Bud Houser  United States	Glenn Hartranft  United States	Ralph Hills  United States
Discus throw details	Bud Houser  United States	Vilho Niittymaa  Finland	Thomas Lieb  United States
Hammer throw details	Fred Tootell  United States	Matt McGrath  United States	Malcolm Nokes  Great Britain
Javelin throw details	Jonni Myyrä  Finland	Gunnar Lindström  Sweden	Eugene Oberst  United States
Pentathlon details	Eero Lehtonen  Finland	Elemér Somfay  Hungary	Robert LeGendre  United States
Decathlon details	Harold Osborn  United States	Emerson Norton  United States	Aleksander Klumberg  Estonia

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	12	10	10	32
2	Finland (FIN)	10	5	2	17
3	Great Britain (GBR)	3	3	5	11
4	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
5	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	3	2	5
7	Switzerland (SUI)	0	2	0	2
8	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	1	2
9	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
11	France (FRA)	0	0	3	3
12	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		27	27	27	81

Participating nations

657 athletes from 40 nations competed. Ten nations competed in athletics for the first time. Cuba, Lithuania, Romania, Uruguay and Germany were the only five nations not to compete in athletics.

Argentina (10)  Australia (9)  Austria (6)  Belgium (17)  Brazil (8)  Bulgaria (4)  Canada (27)  Chile (3)  Czechoslovakia (17)  Denmark (9)  Ecuador (3)  Egypt (1)  Estonia (11)  Finland (52)

France (70)  Great Britain (65)  Greece (12)  Haiti (3)  Hungary (16)  India (7)  Ireland (11)  Italy (36)  Japan (8)  Latvia (10)  Luxembourg (3)  Mexico (11)  Monaco (1)  Netherlands (19)

New Zealand (1)  Norway (10)  Philippines (1)  Poland (14)  Portugal (3)  South Africa (12)  Spain (13)  Sweden (33)  Switzerland (17)  Turkey (4)  United States (96)  Yugoslavia (5)

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Athletics at the 1924 Paris Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2017.