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
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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.