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| Venue | Stade de France (track and field events) Pont d'Iéna (race walk) Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides (Marathon) |
| Dates | 1–11 August 2024 |
| No. of events | 48 |
| Competitors | 1,810 |
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run on 1 to 11 August 2024, featuring a total of 48 medal events across three distinct sets: track and field, road running, and racewalking.[1] Four venues are to be used: Pont d'Iéna for race walking, Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides for the start and end points of the marathon races, and Stade de France for the track and field events.
The competition will feature an identical number of medal events for men and women, the first instance in Olympic history. The Marathon Race Walking Mixed Relay through a Marathon course will contest for the first time at these Games, replacing the men's 50 kilometres race walk in the quest for gender equality.[2]
Another significant change to the athletics program is the repechage-round format in all individual track events from 200 to 1500 m and the hurdles events (110 m for men, 100 m for women, and 400 m for both), a vast opportunity for the runners to have a second chance of entering the semifinal phase. This format will replace the former system of athletes advancing through the fastest overall times (q) apart from those qualifying directly in the first-round heats (Q).[3]
Venues
Track and field events will be staged at the Stade de France, with the race walks contested at Pont d'Iena.[1] The marathon races begin at the Hôtel de Ville (city hall) and will end in Les Invalides, witnessing the runners traverse many of the city's most iconic sites and Olympic venues throughout the route.[4]
This traditional marathon course also sets a particularly tough profile with an overall elevation gain or loss of 438 m. The route, specially designed for the Paris 2024 Games and approved by World Athletics, is unique, demanding, and technical. Paris 2024 unveils the routes for the Olympic marathon and the two races – a 42.195 km course and a 10 km course – open to the general public as part of the mass event running.[5]
Schedule
Road events (marathons and racewalks) will hold the races in the morning session of the athletics program schedule, with all track, field, and combined events staging their finals in the evening session for the first time since London 2012.[6]
In its four-decade-long Olympic history, the women's marathon will occur on the last day of the athletics program for the first time, with the men's race scheduled a day before. According to Tony Estanguet, a triple Olympic slalom canoeing champion and the president of Paris 2024 organizing committee, "We wanted to reverse the order in an ambition to more gender equality and bring women to the fore for the first time so the women's marathon will enjoy major visibility on 11 August to cap off the athletics program."[4]
| P | Preliminary round | Q | Qualification | H | Heats | R | Repechage | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |