Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics

At the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, 27 athletics events were contested, all for men only.

1 Medal summary
2 Medal table
3 Participating nations
4 References

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 metres	Harold Abrahams Great Britain (GBR)	Jackson Scholz United States (USA)
200 metres
400 metres
800 metres
1500 metres
5000 metres
10,000 metres
110 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
3000 metres steeplechase
4 × 100 metres relay	United States (USA) Loren Murchison Louis Clarke Frank Hussey Alfred LeConey	Great Britain (GBR) Harold Abrahams Walter Rangeley William Nichol Lancelot Royle	Jan de Vries Jacob Boot Harry Broos Marinus van den Berge
4 × 400 metres relay	Commodore Cochran Alan Helffrich Oliver MacDonald William Stevenson	Artur Svensson Erik Byléhn Gustaf Wejnarth Nils Engdahl	Edward Toms George Renwick Richard Ripley Guy Butler
3000 metres team race	Paavo Nurmi Ville Ritola Elias Katz	Bertram Macdonald Herbert Johnston George Webber	Edward Kirby William Cox Willard Tibbetts
Marathon
10 kilometres walk
Individual cross country
Team cross country	Paavo Nurmi Ville Ritola Heikki Liimatainen	Earl Johnson Arthur Studenroth August Fager	Henri Lauvaux Gaston Heuet Maurice Norland
Long jump
Triple jump
High jump
Pole vault
Shot put
Discus throw
Hammer throw
Javelin throw
Pentathlon
Decathlon

Medal table

Rank	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	12	10	10	32
2	10	5	2	17
3	3	3	5	11
4	1	1	0	2
5	1	0	0	1
6	0	3	2	5
7	0	2	0	2
8	0	1	1	2
9	0	1	0	1
9	0	1	0	1
11	0	0	3	3
12	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1

Participating nations

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

(10)
Australia (9)
(6)
Belgium (17)
Brazil (8)
(4)
At the 1924 Summer Olympics (27)
(3)
(17)
(9)
(3)
(1)
(11)
Finland (52)

France (70)
Great Britain (65)
Greece (12)
(3)
Hungary (16)
(7)
(11)
Italy (36)
Japan (8)
(10)
(3)
(11)
(1)
(19)

(1)
Norway (10)
(1)
Poland (14)
(3)
(12)
(13)
(33)

References

1924 Summer Olympics results: athletics, from http://www.sports-reference.com/ retrieved 2010-03-08.

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Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics