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65 medals were won, the third most overall medals won by any nation in the Games after United States and China, beating the amount won in Tokyo 2020 and the lower target of 50 set by UK Sport. [6] [7] 14 gold medals were won, the lowest amount since Athens 2004 – leading to a final ranking of 7th in the medal table. [6]
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
Bryony Kate Frances Page (born 10 December 1990) is a British trampoline gymnast.She won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in individual trampoline. She is the 2021 and 2023 women's individual trampoline world champion, and part of the British team that won team gold at the 2013 world championships, and all-around team gold in 2022.
The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in total. [15] The occasion marked the first time a gold medal tie among the two most successful nations has occurred in Summer Olympics history. [16]
Rusted bronze medal from Paris 2024 Olympics, showing detailed artwork and design. Image credits: clem_secchi “There’s been some small bits of tarnishing,” she said in August about the ...
Lizzy Yarnold is the most successful British athlete at the Winter Olympics, with two gold medals. Duncan Scott is the most prolific athlete at a single Games, winning four medals (1 gold, 3 silver) at the 2020 Olympics. Steve Redgrave is the most consistent British Olympic athlete, winning gold medals at five consecutive Games (1984-2000).
Sonya was diagnosed with a brain tumor three years ago, and was scheduled to chemotherapy at the Ohmatdyt Hospital in Kyiv on Feb. 27, 2022, three days after the start of Russia’s full scale ...
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 ...