Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Stade de France (track and field events) Pont d'Iéna (race walk) Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides (Marathon)
Dates	1–11 August 2024
No. of events	48 (23 men, 23 women, 2 mixed)
Competitors	1,810

Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held between 1 and 11 August 2024, featuring a total of 48 medal events across three distinct sets: track and field, road running, and racewalking.^[1] Four venues were used: Pont d'Iéna for race walking, Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides for the start and end points of the marathon races, and Stade de France for the track and field events.

The competition featured an identical number of medal events for men and women, the first instance in Olympic history. The marathon race walk mixed relay through a marathon course was contested for the first time at these Games, replacing the men's 50 kilometres race walk in the quest for gender equality.^[2]

Another significant change to the athletics program was the repechage round format in all individual track events from 200 to 1500 m and the hurdles events (110 m for men, 100 m for women, and 400 m for both), a vast opportunity for the runners to have a second chance of entering the semifinal phase. This format replaced the former system of athletes advancing through the fastest overall times (q) apart from those qualifying directly in the first-round heats (Q).^[3]

Venues

Track and field events were staged at the Stade de France, with the race walks having been contested at Pont d'Iena.^[1] The marathon races began at the Hôtel de Ville (city hall) and ended in Les Invalides. Along the course, runners traversed many of the city's most iconic sites and Olympic venues throughout the route.^[4]

This traditional marathon course also set a particularly tough profile with an overall elevation gain or loss of 438 m. The route, specially designed for the Paris 2024 Games and approved by World Athletics, was unique, demanding, and technical. Paris 2024 unveiled the routes for the Olympic marathon and the two races – a 42.195 km course and a 10 km course – open to the general public as part of the mass event running.^[5]

Schedule

Road events (marathons and racewalks) were held in the morning session of the athletics program schedule, with all track, field, and combined events staging their finals in the evening session for the first time since London 2012.^[6]

For the first time in its four-decade-long Olympic history since the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the women's marathon occurred on the last day of the athletics program on 11 August, with the men's race having taken place the day prior on 10 August. According to Tony Estanguet, a triple Olympic slalom canoeing champion and president of the Paris 2024 organising committee, "We wanted to reverse the order in an ambition to more gender equality and bring women to the fore for the first time so the women's marathon will enjoy major visibility on 11 August to cap off the athletics program."^[4]

Legend

P

Preliminary round

Q

Qualification

H

Heats

R

Repechage

½

Semi-finals

F

Final

Schedule^[6]^[7]

Men's
Date	1 Aug		2 Aug		3 Aug			4 Aug			5 Aug		6 Aug		7 Aug		8 Aug		9 Aug		10 Aug
Event	M	E	M	E	M		E	M	E		M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
100 m					P	H			½	F
200 m												H	R			½		F
400 m									H		R			½		F
800 m															H		R		½			F
1500 m			H				R		½					F
5000 m															H							F
10,000 m				F
110 m hurdles								H					R			½		F
400 m hurdles											H		R			½				F
3000 m steeplechase												H				F
4 × 100 m relay																	H			F
4 × 400 m relay																			H			F
Marathon																					F
20 km walk	F
High jump															Q							F
Pole vault							Q					F
Long jump								Q						F
Triple jump																Q				F
Shot put				Q			F
Discus throw											Q					F
Hammer throw			Q						F
Javelin throw													Q					F
Decathlon			F
Women's
Date	1 Aug		2 Aug			3 Aug			4 Aug		5 Aug		6 Aug		7 Aug		8 Aug		9 Aug		10 Aug		11 Aug
Event	M	E	M		E	M	E		M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M
100 m			P	H			½	F
200 m									H		R	½		F
400 m											H		R			½				F
800 m					H	R				½		F
1500 m													H		R			½				F
5000 m					H							F
10,000 m																				F
100 m hurdles															H		R		½			F
400 m hurdles									H		R			½				F
3000 m steeplechase									H					F
4 × 100 m relay																	H			F
4 × 400 m relay																			H			F
Marathon																							F
20 km walk	F
High jump			Q							F
Pole vault											Q					F
Long jump													Q					F
Triple jump					Q		F
Shot put																	Q			F
Discus throw					Q							F
Hammer throw									Q					F
Javelin throw															Q							F
Heptathlon																	F
Mixed
Date			2 Aug			3 Aug									7 Aug
Event			M		E	M	E								M	E
4 × 400 m relay					H		F
Mixed marathon walk relay															F

Qualification

Main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Athletics – individual events

At the end of the 2022 season, World Athletics established a qualification system for athletics competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Similar to the previous edition, the qualification system was set on a dual pathway, where the initial half of the total quota (about fifty percent) was distributed to the athletes through entry standards approved by the World Athletics council, with the remainder relying on the world ranking list within the qualifying period.^[8] Each country was able to enter a maximum of three athletes for each individual event on the Paris 2024 athletics program. The qualification period for all track and field events (except the 10,000 metres, heptathlon, and decathlon) ran from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024.^[9]

Athletics – relay teams

Each relay event featured sixteen teams from their respective NOCs, composed of the following:^[8]

• 14: top fourteen teams based on their results achieved at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas^[10]
• 2: top two teams outside the key qualifier according to the World Athletics performance list for relays within the qualification period (31 December 2022 to 30 June 2024)^[11]

Athletics – marathon race walking mixed teams

The marathon race walking mixed relay event, covering a distance of marathon (42.195 km), featured twenty-five pairs from their respective NOCs, composed of the following:^[8]

• 22: top twenty-two teams based on their results achieved at the 2024 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships^[12]
• 3: top three teams outside the key qualifier through the World Athletics Race Walk rankings based on the aggregate scores of both a male and a female athlete within the qualification period (31 December 2022 to 30 June 2024)^[11]

Athletics – 10,000 metres, road, and combined events

The qualification period for the marathon ran from 1 November 2022 to 30 April 2024. For the 10,000 metres, combined events (men's decathlon and women's heptathlon) and racewalking, the qualification period ran from 31 December 2022 to 30 June 2024.^[8]

In the marathon races, any runner ranked higher than the sixty-fifth-place athlete on the filtered Quota Place "Road to Paris" list on 30 January 2024, was deemed eligible for immediate selection to his or her respective national team at the Games. Beyond the deadline, the remaining twenty percent of the total quota was determined by the same dual pathway qualification criteria outlined above without displacing any qualified athletes on the set date.^[8][13]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	14	11	9	34
2	Kenya	4	2	5	11
3	Canada	3	1	1	5
4	Netherlands	2	1	3	6
5	Spain	2	1	1	4
6	Norway	2	1	0	3
7	Great Britain	1	4	5	10
8	Jamaica	1	3	2	6
9	Ethiopia	1	3	0	4
10	Australia	1	2	4	7
11	Germany	1	2	1	4
12	China	1	1	2	4
13	Belgium	1	1	1	3
14	Bahrain	1	1	0	2
	Botswana	1	1	0	2
	Ecuador	1	1	0	2
	New Zealand	1	1	0	2
	Saint Lucia	1	1	0	2
	Uganda	1	1	0	2
20	Ukraine	1	0	2	3
21	Greece	1	0	1	2
22	Dominica	1	0	0	1
	Dominican Republic	1	0	0	1
	Japan	1	0	0	1
	Morocco	1	0	0	1
	Pakistan	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
28	South Africa	0	2	0	2
29	Italy	0	1	2	3
30	Brazil	0	1	1	2
31	France*	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	India	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Portugal	0	1	0	1
36	Grenada	0	0	2	2
37	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	Zambia	0	0	1	1
Totals (43 entries)		48	48	49	145

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Noah Lyles  United States	9.79 (.784) PB	Kishane Thompson  Jamaica	9.79 (.789)	Fred Kerley  United States	9.81 SB
200 metres details	Letsile Tebogo  Botswana	19.46 AR	Kenny Bednarek  United States	19.62	Noah Lyles  United States	19.70
400 metres details	Quincy Hall  United States	43.40 PB	Matthew Hudson-Smith  Great Britain	43.44 AR	Muzala Samukonga  Zambia	43.74 NR
800 metres details	Emmanuel Wanyonyi  Kenya	1:41.19 PB	Marco Arop  Canada	1:41.20 AR	Djamel Sedjati  Algeria	1:41.50
1500 metres details	Cole Hocker  United States	3:27.65 OR, AR	Josh Kerr  Great Britain	3:27.79 NR	Yared Nuguse  United States	3:27.80 PB
5000 metres details	Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway	13:13.66 SB	Ronald Kwemoi  Kenya	13:15.04	Grant Fisher  United States	13:15.13
10,000 metres details	Joshua Cheptegei  Uganda	26:43.14 OR	Berihu Aregawi  Ethiopia	26:43.44	Grant Fisher  United States	26:43.46 SB
110 metres hurdles details	Grant Holloway  United States	12.99	Daniel Roberts  United States	13.09 (.085)	Rasheed Broadbell  Jamaica	13.09 (.088) SB
400 metres hurdles details	Rai Benjamin  United States	46.46 =SB	Karsten Warholm  Norway	47.06	Alison dos Santos  Brazil	47.26
3000 metres steeplechase details	Soufiane El Bakkali  Morocco	8:06.05 SB	Kenneth Rooks  United States	8:06.41 PB	Abraham Kibiwot  Kenya	8:06.47 SB
4 × 100 metres relay details	Canada Aaron Brown Jerome Blake Brendon Rodney Andre De Grasse	37.50 SB	South Africa Bayanda Walaza Shaun Maswanganyi Bradley Nkoana Akani Simbine	37.57 AR	Great Britain Jeremiah Azu Louie Hinchliffe Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Zharnel Hughes Richard Kilty^[b]	37.61 SB
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Christopher Bailey Vernon Norwood Bryce Deadmon Rai Benjamin Quincy Wilson^[b]	2:54.43 OR	Botswana Bayapo Ndori Busang Collen Kebinatshipi Anthony Pesela Letsile Tebogo	2:54.53 AR	Great Britain Alex Haydock-Wilson Matthew Hudson-Smith Lewis Davey Charlie Dobson Samuel Reardon^[b] Toby Harries^[b]	2:55.83 AR
Marathon details	Tamirat Tola  Ethiopia	2:06:26 OR	Bashir Abdi  Belgium	2:06:47	Benson Kipruto  Kenya	2:07:00
20 kilometres walk details	Brian Pintado  Ecuador	1:18:55	Caio Bonfim  Brazil	1:19:09	Álvaro Martín  Spain	1:19:11
High jump details	Hamish Kerr  New Zealand	2.36 m =AR	Shelby McEwen  United States	2.36 m PB	Mutaz Barsham  Qatar	2.34 m SB
Pole vault details	Armand Duplantis  Sweden	6.25 m WR	Sam Kendricks  United States	5.95 m =SB	Emmanouil Karalis  Greece	5.90 m
Long jump details	Miltiadis Tentoglou  Greece	8.48 m	Wayne Pinnock  Jamaica	8.36 m	Mattia Furlani  Italy	8.34 m
Triple jump details	Jordan Díaz  Spain	17.86 m	Pedro Pichardo  Portugal	17.84 m	Andy Díaz  Italy	17.64 m SB
Shot put details	Ryan Crouser  United States	22.90 m SB	Joe Kovacs  United States	22.15 m	Rajindra Campbell  Jamaica	22.15 m
Discus throw details	Rojé Stona  Jamaica	70.00 m OR/PB	Mykolas Alekna  Lithuania	69.97 m	Matthew Denny  Australia	69.31 m
Hammer throw details	Ethan Katzberg  Canada	84.12 m	Bence Halász  Hungary	79.97 m	Mykhaylo Kokhan  Ukraine	79.39 m
Javelin throw details	Arshad Nadeem  Pakistan	92.97 m OR	Neeraj Chopra  India	89.45 m SB	Anderson Peters  Grenada	88.54 m
Decathlon details	Markus Rooth  Norway	8796 pts NR	Leo Neugebauer  Germany	8748 pts	Lindon Victor  Grenada	8711 pts SB

Women's events

Women's 3000 metres Steeplechase final

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Julien Alfred  Saint Lucia	10.72 NR	Sha'Carri Richardson  United States	10.87	Melissa Jefferson  United States	10.92
200 metres details	Gabby Thomas  United States	21.83	Julien Alfred  Saint Lucia	22.08	Brittany Brown  United States	22.20
400 metres details	Marileidy Paulino  Dominican Republic	48.17 OR, AR	Salwa Eid Naser  Bahrain	48.53 SB	Natalia Kaczmarek  Poland	48.98
800 metres details	Keely Hodgkinson  Great Britain	1:56.72	Tsige Duguma  Ethiopia	1:57.15 PB	Mary Moraa  Kenya	1:57.42
1500 metres details	Faith Kipyegon  Kenya	3:51.29 OR	Jessica Hull  Australia	3:52.56	Georgia Bell  Great Britain	3:52.61 NR
5000 metres details	Beatrice Chebet  Kenya	14:28.56	Faith Kipyegon  Kenya	14:29.60 SB	Sifan Hassan  Netherlands	14:30.61 SB
10,000 metres details	Beatrice Chebet  Kenya	30:43.25	Nadia Battocletti  Italy	30:43.35 NR	Sifan Hassan  Netherlands	30:44.12 SB
100 metres hurdles details	Masai Russell  United States	12.33	Cyréna Samba-Mayela  France	12.34	Jasmine Camacho-Quinn  Puerto Rico	12.36
400 metres hurdles details	Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone  United States	50.37 WR	Anna Cockrell  United States	51.87 PB	Femke Bol  Netherlands	52.15
3000 metres steeplechase details	Winfred Yavi  Bahrain	8:52.76 OR	Peruth Chemutai  Uganda	8:53.34 NR	Faith Cherotich  Kenya	8:55.15 PB
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Melissa Jefferson Twanisha Terry Gabby Thomas Sha'Carri Richardson	41.78 SB	Great Britain Dina Asher-Smith Imani-Lara Lansiquot Amy Hunt Daryll Neita Bianca Williams^[b] Desirèe Henry^[b]	41.85	Germany Alexandra Burghardt Lisa Mayer Gina Lückenkemper Rebekka Haase Sophia Junk^[b]	41.97 SB
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Shamier Little Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Gabby Thomas Alexis Holmes Quanera Hayes^[b] Aaliyah Butler^[b] Kaylyn Brown^[b]	3:15.27 AR	Netherlands Lieke Klaver Cathelijn Peeters Lisanne de Witte Femke Bol Eveline Saalberg^[b] Myrte van der Schoot^[b]	3:19.50 NR	Great Britain Victoria Ohuruogu Laviai Nielsen Nicole Yeargin Amber Anning Yemi Mary John^[b] Hannah Kelly^[b] Jodie Williams^[b] Lina Nielsen^[b]	3:19.72 NR
Marathon details	Sifan Hassan  Netherlands	2:22:55 OR	Tigst Assefa  Ethiopia	2:22:58	Hellen Obiri  Kenya	2:23:10 PB
20 kilometres walk details	Yang Jiayu  China	1:25:54	María Pérez  Spain	1:26:19	Jemima Montag  Australia	1:26:25 AR
High jump details	Yaroslava Mahuchikh  Ukraine	2.00 m	Nicola Olyslagers  Australia	2.00 m	Eleanor Patterson  Australia	1.95 m =SB
					Iryna Herashchenko  Ukraine	1.95 m =SB
Pole vault details	Nina Kennedy  Australia	4.90 m SB	Katie Moon  United States	4.85 m =SB	Alysha Newman  Canada	4.85 m NR
Long jump details	Tara Davis-Woodhall  United States	7.10 m	Malaika Mihambo  Germany	6.98 m	Jasmine Moore  United States	6.96 m
Triple jump details	Thea LaFond  Dominica	15.02 m NR	Shanieka Ricketts  Jamaica	14.87 m SB	Jasmine Moore  United States	14.67 m SB
Shot put details	Yemisi Ogunleye  Germany	20.00 m	Maddi Wesche  New Zealand	19.86 m PB	Song Jiayuan  China	19.32 m
Discus throw details	Valarie Allman  United States	69.50 m	Feng Bin  China	67.51 m	Sandra Elkasević  Croatia	67.51 m SB
Hammer throw details	Camryn Rogers  Canada	76.97 m	Annette Echikunwoke  United States	75.48 m SB	Zhao Jie  China	74.27 m
Javelin throw details	Haruka Kitaguchi  Japan	65.80 m SB	Jo-Ane van Dyk  South Africa	63.93 m	Nikola Ogrodníková  Czech Republic	63.68 m SB
Heptathlon details	Nafissatou Thiam  Belgium	6880 pts	Katarina Johnson-Thompson  Great Britain	6844 pts	Noor Vidts  Belgium	6707 pts

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 400 metres relay details	Netherlands Eugene Omalla Lieke Klaver Isaya Klein Ikkink Femke Bol Cathelijn Peeters^[b]	3:07.43 AR	United States Vernon Norwood Shamier Little Bryce Deadmon Kaylyn Brown	3:07.74	Great Britain Samuel Reardon Laviai Nielsen Alex Haydock-Wilson Amber Anning Nicole Yeargin^[b]	3:08.01 NR
Marathon walk relay details	Spain Álvaro Martín María Pérez	2:50:31	Ecuador Brian Pintado Glenda Morejón	2:51:22	Australia Rhydian Cowley Jemima Montag	2:51:38

^b Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Multiple medalists

Multiple medalists

Name				Total
Gabrielle Thomas	3	0	0	3
Rai Benjamin	2	0	0	2
Beatrice Chebet	2	0	0	2
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone	2	0	0	2
Femke Bol	1	1	1	3
Julien Alfred	1	1	0	2
Kaylyn Brown	1	1	0	2
Bryce Deadmon	1	1	0	2
Faith Kipyegon	1	1	0	2
Lieke Klaver	1	1	0	2
Shamier Little	1	1	0	2
Vernon Norwood	1	1	0	2
Cathelijn Peeters	1	1	0	2
María Pérez	1	1	0	2
Brian Pintado	1	1	0	2
Sha'Carri Richardson	1	1	0	2
Letsile Tebogo	1	1	0	2
Sifan Hassan	1	0	2	3
Melissa Jefferson	1	0	1	2
Noah Lyles	1	0	1	2
Álvaro Martín	1	0	1	2
Matthew Hudson-Smith	0	1	1	2
Amber Anning	0	0	2	2
Grant Fisher	0	0	2	2
Alex Haydock-Wilson	0	0	2	2
Jemima Montag	0	0	2	2
Jasmine Moore	0	0	2	2
Laviai Nielsen	0	0	2	2
Samuel Reardon	0	0	2	2
Nicole Yeargin	0	0	2	2

See also

• Athletics at the 2022 Asian Games
• Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
• Athletics at the 2023 African Games
• Athletics at the 2023 European Games
• Athletics at the 2023 Pan American Games
• Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

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