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The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris has officially kicked off. Find out how many athletes compete in the 2024 Olympics and how many countries compete overall.
Canadian Ian Millar in a 2007 picture. At London 2012 he participated in a record 10th Olympics. Only a small fraction of the world's population ever competes at the Olympic Games; an even smaller fraction competes in multiple Games. 950 athletes [1] (648 men [2] and 302 women [3]) have participated in at least five Olympics from Athens 1896 to Paris 2024, but excluding the 1906 Intercalated ...
In this list there are all the 364 Olympians (314 males and 50 females) that have competed in two or more sports at the Winter Olympic Games. These athletes are listed below, with the number of times they competed in each sport. Sometimes they competed in two disciplines at the same Games; such instances are noted.
Sheila Taormina from the United States and Truus Klapwijk from the Netherlands are the only women to have competed three different sports. [1] Of the athletes who participated in two or more Summer Olympics in two different sports, 49 are Swedish and 23 of them participated in the home Olympics in Stockholm 1912.
As of 2008, there were still more medal events for men than women. With the addition of women's boxing to the programme in the 2012 Summer Olympics, however, women athletes were able to compete in all the sports open to men. [259] In the winter Olympics, women are still unable to compete in the Nordic combined. [260]
Over the 19 days of competition, around 10,500 athletes will compete for medals in 32 sports, and for the first time they will do so with gender parity—with the same number of male and female ...
Every nation that has competed at the Olympics has entered the athletics competition. The numbers below represent how many athletes each nation sent that year, starting with 1896. [4] NOTE: This table is a work in progress. The empty boxes in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 columns do not necessarily mean that the country did not send athletes that year.
Athletes from Kuwait competed as Independent Olympic Athletes (IOA) at the 2016 Games. ROT. Owing to the refugee crisis, a refugee team was formed at the 2016 Summer Olympics. It consists of athletes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Syria, who have fled their home countries and cannot compete under the home NOC.