Olympic Games Paris 2024: Event Schedule, Medal Tally

The Olympic Games Paris 2024 are being held from July 26 to August 11 this year. France’s capital Paris is the host city, having been awarded the Games in the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru in September 13, 2017. A number of withdrawals had resulted in Paris and Los Angeles, USA being the only remaining contenders. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) ended up awarding the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Olympics to Los Angeles.

Olympic Games Paris 2024:

This is the third time Paris is hosting the Summer Olympics, almost a century after it last hosted in 1924. Paris also hosted the second edition of the multi-sport event in 1900. London is the only other city to have hosted the Games three times (in 1908, 1948, and 2012). Paris is the main host city but events will also be held in 16 other cities across France in addition to a subsite in Tahiti, French Polynesia.

About 5,804 medals will be distributed during the Games. The Olympic and Paralympic medals were unveiled in February this year. They contain hexagon-shaped tokens of scrap iron that had been taken from the original construction of the famed Eiffel Tower with the logo of the Games embedded in it. The medals will be produced by Monnaie de Paris, the government institution responsible for minting France’s coins, and designed by the Parisian luxury jewellery firm Chaumet.

The Games feature 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 “core” Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee. Breakdancing, or breaking, is one of these optional sports and will be making its Olympic debut in Paris.

Paris 2024 is the first time that the opening ceremony for an edition of the Summer Olympics was taken out of the traditional setting of an Olympic Stadium. The parade of nations was conducted along the Seine from Pont d’Austerlitz to Pont d’Iéna, and the official protocol at Place du Trocadéro in a temporary “mini-stadium”.

The organisers have stated that the ceremony would be the most accessible one in the history of the Games. Attendees were originally expected to be more than 5,00,000 non-paying and an additional 1,00,000 spectators along the River Seine. However, this number has been reduced due to security concerns. The official mascots of the Games are the Phryges, based on the Phrygian caps, a symbol of France.

India In Action: Event Schedule

8/07/2024

Athletics	11:00 Marathon Race Walk Relay Mixed final Priyanka Goswami/Suraj Panwar 13:35 Men’s High Jump Qualification Sarvesh Kushare 13:45 Women’s 100m Hurdles Round 1 Jyothi Yarraji 13:55 Women’s Javelin Throw Qualification Annu Rani
Golf	12:30 Women’s Round 1 Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar
Table Tennis	13:30 Men’s & Women’s Team Quarterfinals 18:30; Men’s & Women’s Team Quarterfinals; 23:30 Men’s Team Semifinal
Weightlifting	23:00; Women’s 49kg Mirabai Chanu
Wrestling	00:20 Women’s freestyle 68kg Bronze Medal Match 00:45 Women’s freestyle 68kg Final 15:00 Women’s freestyle 53kg 1/8 Final Antim Panghal 14:30 Women’s freestyle 50kg Repechage 16:20; Women’s freestyle 53kg 1/4 Final 22:25; Women’s freestyle 53kg Semifinal

8/08/2024

Athletics	00:15 Women’s 400m Semi-Final; 01:10 Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Final; 14:05 Women’s 100m Hurdles Repechage Round; 13:55 Women’s Shot Put Qualification Abha Khatua; 22:45 Men’s Triple Jump Qualification; 23:55 Men’s Javelin Throw Final
Golf	12:30 Women’s Round 2
Hockey	17:30 Men’s Bronze Medal Match; 22:30 Men’s Gold Medal Match
Table Tennis	13:30 Men’s Team Semifinal; 18:30 Women’s Team Semifinal; 23:30 Women’s Team Semifinal
Wrestling	00:20 Women’s freestyle 50kg Bronze Medal Match; 00:45 Women’s freestyle 50kg Final; 14:30 Women’s freestyle 53kg Repechage; 15:00 Women’s freestyle 57kg 1/8 Final Anshu Malik; 15:00 Men’s Freestyle 57kg 1/8 Final Aman Sehrawat; 16:20 MFS 57kg 1/4 Final; 16:20 Women’s freestyle 57kg 1/4 Final; 21:45 MFS 57kg Semifinal; 22:25 Women’s freestyle 57kg Semifinal

8/09/2024

Athletics	14:10 onwards Women’s 4 x 400m Relay Round 1(Jyothika Sri Dandi, Kiran Pahal, Vithya Ramraj, Poovamma MR) 14:35 Men’s 4 x 400m Relay Round 1 (Muhammed Anas,Muhammed Ajmal, Amoj Jacob,Santhosh Tamilarasan,Rajesh Ramesh)15:35 Women’s 100m Hurdles Semi-Final 23:10 Women’s Shot Put Final 23:40 Men’s Triple Jump Final
Golf	12:30 Women’s Round 3 Aditi Ashok, Diksha Daga
Wrestling	00:20 Women’s freestyle 53kg Bronze Medal Match; 00:45 Women’s freestyle 53kg Final; 14:30 Women’s freestyle 57kg Repechage; 14:30 MFS 57kg Repechage; 23:00 MFS 57kg Bronze Medal Match; 23:25 MFS 57kg Final

8/10/2024

Athletics	23:15 Women’s 100m Hurdles Final
Golf	12:30 Women’s Round 4 (medal)
Wrestling	00:20 Women’s freestyle 57kg Bronze Medal Match 00:45 Women’s freestyle 57kg Final; 15:00 Women’s freestyle 76kg 1/8 Final Reetika Hooda; 16:20 Women’s freestyle 76kg 1/4 Final 22:25 Women’s freestyle 76kg Semifinal

8/12/2024

Ceremonies: 00:30 onwards Closing ceremony

Medal Tally:

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
71	India	0	1	5	6
1	China	39	27	24	90
2	United States	38	42	42	122
3	Australia	18	18	14	50
4	Japan	18	12	13	43
5	France	16	24	22	62
6	Great Britain	14	22	27	63
7	South Korea	13	8	9	30
8	Netherlands	13	7	12	32
9	Germany	12	11	8	31