Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the
1924 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m   men
200 m men
400 m men
800 m men
1500 m men
5000 m men
10,000 m men
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m steeplechase men
4×100 m relay men
4×400 m relay men
3000 m team race men
10 km walk men
Road events
Marathon men
Field events
Long jump men
Triple jump men
High jump men
Pole vault men
Shot put men
Discus throw men
Hammer throw men
Javelin throw men
Combined events
Pentathlon men
Decathlon men
Cross-country events
Individual men
Team men

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

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Harold Abrahams
 Great Britain
Jackson Scholz
 United States
Arthur Porritt
 New Zealand
200 metres
Jackson Scholz
 United States
Charles Paddock
 United States
Eric Liddell
 Great Britain
400 metres
Eric Liddell
 Great Britain
Horatio Fitch
 United States
Guy Butler
 Great Britain
800 metres
Douglas Lowe
 Great Britain
Paul Martin
 Switzerland
Schuyler Enck
 United States
1500 metres
Paavo Nurmi
 Finland
Willy Schärer
 Switzerland
Henry Stallard
 Great Britain
5000 metres
Paavo Nurmi
 Finland
Ville Ritola
 Finland
Edvin Wide
 Sweden
10,000 metres
Ville Ritola
 Finland
Edvin Wide
 Sweden
Eero Berg
 Finland
110 metres hurdles
Daniel Kinsey
 United States
Sydney Atkinson
 South Africa
Sten Pettersson
 Sweden
400 metres hurdles
Morgan Taylor
 United States
Erik Vilen
 Finland
Ivan Riley
 United States
3000 metres steeplechase
Ville Ritola
 Finland
Elias Katz
 Finland
Paul Bontemps
 France
4 × 100 metres relay
 United States (USA)
Loren Murchison
Louis Clarke
Frank Hussey
Alfred LeConey
 Great Britain (GBR)
Harold Abrahams
Walter Rangeley
Wilfred Nichol
Lancelot Royle
 Netherlands (NED)
Jan de Vries
Jacob Boot
Harry Broos
Marinus van den Berge
4 × 400 metres relay
 United States (USA)
Commodore Cochran
Alan Helffrich
Oliver MacDonald
William Stevenson
 Sweden (SWE)
Artur Svensson
Erik Byléhn
Gustaf Wejnarth
Nils Engdahl
 Great Britain (GBR)
Edward Toms
George Renwick
Richard Ripley
Guy Butler
3000 metres team race
 Finland (FIN)
Paavo Nurmi
Ville Ritola
Elias Katz
 Great Britain (GBR)
Bertram Macdonald
Herbert Johnston
George Webber
 United States (USA)
Edward Kirby
William Cox
Willard Tibbetts
Marathon
Albin Stenroos
 Finland
Romeo Bertini
 Italy
Clarence DeMar
 United States
10 kilometres walk
Ugo Frigerio
 Italy
Gordon Goodwin
 Great Britain
Cecil McMaster
 South Africa
Individual cross country
Paavo Nurmi
 Finland
Ville Ritola
 Finland
Earl Johnson
 United States
Team cross country
 Finland (FIN)
Paavo Nurmi
Ville Ritola
Heikki Liimatainen
 United States (USA)
Earl Johnson
Arthur Studenroth
August Fager
 France (FRA)
Henri Lauvaux
Gaston Heuet
Maurice Norland
Long jump
DeHart Hubbard
 United States
Edward Gourdin
 United States
Sverre Hansen
 Norway
Triple jump
Nick Winter
 Australia
Luis Brunetto
 Argentina
Vilho Tuulos
 Finland
High jump
Harold Osborn
 United States
Leroy Brown
 United States
Pierre Lewden
 France
Pole vault
Lee Barnes
 United States
Glen Graham
 United States
James Brooker
 United States
Shot put
Bud Houser
 United States
Glenn Hartranft
 United States
Ralph Hills
 United States
Discus throw
Bud Houser
 United States
Vilho Niittymaa
 Finland
Thomas Lieb
 United States
Hammer throw
Fred Tootell
 United States
Matt McGrath
 United States
Malcolm Nokes
 Great Britain
Javelin throw
Jonni Myyrä
 Finland
Gunnar Lindström
 Sweden
Eugene Oberst
 United States
Pentathlon
Eero Lehtonen
 Finland
Elemér Somfay
 Hungary
Robert LeGendre
 United States
Decathlon
Harold Osborn
 United States
Emerson Norton
 United States
Aleksander Klumberg
 Estonia

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 12 10 10 32
2  Finland (FIN) 10 5 2 17
3  Great Britain (GBR) 3 3 5 11
4  Italy (ITA) 1 1 0 2
5  Australia (AUS) 1 0 0 1
6  Sweden (SWE) 0 3 2 5
7  Switzerland (SUI) 0 2 0 2
8  South Africa (RSA) 0 1 1 2
9  Argentina (ARG) 0 1 0 1
 Hungary (HUN) 0 1 0 1
11  France (FRA) 0 0 3 3
12  Estonia (EST) 0 0 1 1
 Netherlands (NED) 0 0 1 1
 New Zealand (NZL) 0 0 1 1
 Norway (NOR) 0 0 1 1

Participating nations

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

References

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