Papua New Guinea at the 2024 Summer Olympics

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Papua New Guinea at the
2024 Summer Olympics
Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg
IOC code PNG
NOC Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee
Website www.pngolympic.org
in Paris, France
26 July 2024 (2024-07-26) – 11 August 2024 (2024-08-11)
Competitors7 (5 men and 2 women) in 5 sports
Flag bearers Gibson Mara & Georgia-Leigh Vele
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Papua New Guinea competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's eleventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.

Contents

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games:

SportMenWomenTotal
Athletics 011
Boxing 101
Swimming 112
Taekwondo 202
Weightlifting 101
Total527

Athletics

Papua New Guinea sent one sprinter to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [1]

Key
Track events
AthleteEventPreliminaryHeatSemifinalFinal
ResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRank
Leonie Beu Women's 100 m 11.63 Q311.738Did Not Advance

Boxing

Papua New Guinea sent one boxer to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [2]

AthleteEventRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
John Ume Men's 63.5 kg Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Erislandy Álvarez  (CUB)
L RSC
Did not advance

Swimming

Papua New Guinea sent two swimmers to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Josh Tarere Men's 100 m freestyle 53.8572Did not advance
Georgia-Leigh Vele Women's 50 m freestyle 27.6144Did not advance

Qualifiers for the latter rounds (Q) of all events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.

Taekwondo

Papua New Guinea entered two athletes to compete at the games. Gibson Mara qualified for Paris 2024, following the triumph of winning the final match in his weight class; meanwhile Kevin Kassman fail to win the final match in his weight class, but later on confirmed that he will compete for Paris 2024, after New Zealand taekwondo fail to meet the requirements for NOC nomination. Both of them qualified through the 2024 Oceania Qualification Tournament in Honiara, Solomon Islands; [3] [4] signifying the nations returning to the sports after the last participation at 2016.

AthleteEventQualificationRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechageFinal / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Kevin Kassman Men's –68 kg ByeFlag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Sinden  (GBR)
L 0–2
Did not advance
Gibson Mara Men's +80 kg Olympic flag.svg  Mehdipournejad  (EOR)
L 1–2
Did not advance

Weightlifting

Papua New Guinea entered one weightlifter into the Olympic competition. Morea Baru (men's 61 kg) secured one of the top ten slots in his weight divisions based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings. [5]

AthleteEventSnatchClean & JerkTotalRank
ResultRankResultRank
Morea Baru Men's −61 kg 118716152795

References

  1. "Athletics Paris 2024 Final Entries". World Athletics . Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  2. "Paris2024_BOX_Quotas_FINAL_v2" (PDF). International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  3. "Australia wins four Olympic quotas at Oceania Taekwondo Qualifiers". Inside The Games. 7 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  4. "Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea and Fiji receive Taekwondo Olympic berths after quota reallocation". Inside The Games. 6 May 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
  5. "Phuket, Day 3: Hampton Morris ends USA's 55-year wait on day of four world records". International Weightlifting Federation. 2 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.