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 (GBR)	Jackson Scholz United States (USA)	Arthur Porritt New Zealand (NZL)
200 metres	Jackson Scholz United States (USA)	Charles Paddock United States (USA)	Eric Liddell Great Britain (GBR)
400 metres	Eric Liddell Great Britain (GBR)	Horatio Fitch United States (USA)	Guy Butler Great Britain (GBR)
800 metres	Douglas Lowe Great Britain (GBR)	Paul Martin Switzerland (SUI)	Schuyler Enck United States (USA)
1500 metres	Paavo Nurmi Finland (FIN)	Willy Schärer Switzerland (SUI)	Henry Stallard Great Britain (GBR)
5000 metres	Paavo Nurmi Finland (FIN)	Ville Ritola Finland (FIN)	Edvin Wide Sweden (SWE)
10,000 metres	Ville Ritola Finland (FIN)	Edvin Wide Sweden (SWE)	Eero Berg Finland (FIN)
110 metres hurdles	Daniel Kinsey United States (USA)	Sydney Atkinson South Africa (RSA)	Sten Pettersson Sweden (SWE)
400 metres hurdles	Morgan Taylor United States (USA)	Erik Vilen Finland (FIN)	Ivan Riley United States (USA)
3000 metres steeplechase	Ville Ritola Finland (FIN)	Elias Katz Finland (FIN)	Paul Bontemps France (FRA)
4 × 100 metres relay	United States (USA) Loren Murchison Louis Clarke Frank Hussey Alfred LeConey	Great Britain (GBR) Harold Abrahams Walter Rangeley William 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 (FIN)	Romeo Bertini Italy (ITA)	Clarence DeMar United States (USA)
10 kilometres walk	Ugo Frigerio Italy (ITA)	Gordon Goodwin Great Britain (GBR)	Cecil McMaster South Africa (RSA)
Individual cross country	Paavo Nurmi Finland (FIN)	Ville Ritola Finland (FIN)	Earl Johnson United States (USA)
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 (USA)	Edward Gourdin United States (USA)	Sverre Hansen Norway (NOR)
Triple jump	Nick Winter Australia (AUS)	Luis Brunetto Argentina (ARG)	Vilho Tuulos Finland (FIN)
High jump	Harold Osborn United States (USA)	Leroy Brown United States (USA)	Pierre Lewden France (FRA)
Pole vault	Lee Barnes United States (USA)	Glen Graham United States (USA)	James Brooker United States (USA)
Shot put	Bud Houser United States (USA)	Glenn Hartranft United States (USA)	Ralph Hills United States (USA)
Discus throw	Bud Houser United States (USA)	Vilho Niittymaa Finland (FIN)	Thomas Lieb United States (USA)
Hammer throw	Fred Tootell United States (USA)	Matt McGrath United States (USA)	Malcolm Nokes Great Britain (GBR)
Javelin throw	Jonni Myyrä Finland (FIN)	Gunnar Lindström Sweden (SWE)	Eugene Oberst United States (USA)
Pentathlon	Eero Lehtonen Finland (FIN)	Elemér Somfay Hungary (HUN)	Robert LeGendre United States (USA)
Decathlon	Harold Osborn United States (USA)	Emerson Norton United States (USA)	Aleksander Klumberg Estonia (EST)

§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, and Uruguay were the only four nations not to compete in athletics.

Argentina (10) Australia (9) Austria (6) Belgium (17) Brazil (8) Bulgaria (4) Canada (27) Chile (3) Czechoslovakia (17) Denmark (9) Ecuador (3) Egypt (1) Estonia (11) Finland (52)

France (70) Great Britain (65) Greece (12) Haiti (3) Hungary (16) India (7) Ireland (11) Italy (36) Japan (8) Latvia (10) Luxembourg (3) Mexico (11) Monaco (1) Netherlands (19)

New Zealand (1) Norway (10) Philippines (1) Poland (14) Portugal (3) South Africa (12) Spain (13) Sweden (33) Switzerland (17) Turkey (4) United States (96) Yugoslavia (5)

§References

• 1924 Summer Olympics results: athletics, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-03-08.