World Athletics announces qualifying standards for 2024 Paris Olympics
Athletics has been an integral part of the Olympic games since the revival of the Games in Athens in 1896. It was an all-men’s event at the 1896 Athens Games. 32 years after the 1896 Athens Olympics, women competed in athletics for the first time at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.
As for the Paris 2024 Olympic games, a total of 905 men and 905 women will be competing in the athletics events. Yesterday, World Athletics revealed the qualification system as well as the entry standards the athletes need to achieve during the set time standards for the 2024 Paris Games.
There will be two ways for the athletes to qualify for the Games. To determine the qualification, the French system has been followed. 50% of the athletes can qualify through the entry standards, whereas the remaining 50% of the athletes can qualify based on the world rankings. The French qualification system has been approved by the World Athletics Council.
The Paris 2024 Olympics will have a total of 48 athletic events, including 23 women’s events and 23 men’s events. The two mixed events will be the 4×400-meter mixed relay and the 35km mixed team race walk.
The qualification and ranking period for the 10,000m, combined events, race walks, and relays will be from December 31, 2022 to June 30, 2024. For all other events except the marathon, the qualification and ranking period will be from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024.
For the marathon, the qualification period will be from November 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024. Regarding marathons, any athlete ranked higher than the 65th ranked athlete on the filtered Quota place “Road to Paris” list on January 30, 2024 will be considered qualified, according to the press release by World Athletics.
 on the Stats Zone of the World Athletics website in the latter part of 2023.</p>
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<h2>Entry standards for the athletics events at the 2024 Paris Olympics</h2>
<p>The below-attached entry standards were approved by the World Athletics Council in November 2022.</p>
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| Men | Event | Women |
|---|---|---|
| 10.00 | 100 m | 11.07 |
| 20.16 | 200 m | 22.57 |
| 45.00 | 400 m | 50.95 |
| 1:44:70 | 800m | 1:59:30 |
| 3:33.50 (3:50.40) | 1500m (Mile) | 4:02.50 (4:20.90) |
| 13:05.00 | 5000m | 14:52.00 |
| 27:00.00 (27:00) | 10,000m | 30:40.00 |
| 13.27 | 110m Hurdles / 100m Hurdles | 12.77 |
| 48.70 | 400m Hurdles | 54.85 |
| 8:15.00 | 3000m Steeplechase | 9:23.00 |
| 2.33 | High Jump | 1.97 |
| 5.82 | Pole Vault | 4.73 |
| 8.27 | Long Jump | 6.86 |
| 17.22 | Triple Jump | 14.55 |
| 21.50 | Shot Put | 18.80 |
| 67.20 | Discus Throw | 64.50 |
| 78.20 | Hammer Throw | 74.00 |
| 85.50 | Javelin Throw | 64.00 |
| 8,460 | Decathlon / Heptathlon | 6,480 |
| 1:20:10 | 20km Race Walk | 1:29:20 |
| 2:08:10 | Marathon | 2:26:50 |
What are the athletics events at the 2024 Paris Games?
The athletics events at the 2024 Paris will be held from August 2, 20224 to August 11, 2024. The list of events is as follows:
- 100m (women’s / men’s)
- 200m (women’s / men’s)
- 400m (women’s / men’s)
- 800m (women’s / men’s)
- 1500m (women’s / men’s)
- 5000m (women’s / men’s)
- 10,000m (women’s / men’s)
- 100m Hurdles (Women’s)
- 110m Hurdles (Men’s)
- 400m Hurdles (Women’s / Men’s)
- 3000m Steeplechase (Women’s / Men’s)
- 4 x 100m Relay (Women’s / Men’s)
- 4 x 400m Relay (Women’s / Men’s / Mixed)
- High Jump (Women’s / Men’s)
- Pole Vault (Women’s / Men’s)
- Long Jump (Women’s / Men’s)
- Triple Jump (Women’s / Men’s)
- Shot Put (Women’s / Men’s)
- Discus Throw (Women’s / Men’s)
- Hammer Throw (Women’s / Men’s)
- Javelin Throw (Women’s / Men’s)
- Heptathlon (Women’s)
- Decathlon (men’s)
- 20km Race Walk (Women’s / Men’s)
- 35km Team Race Walk (mixed)
- Marathon (women’s / men’s): last weekend of the Olympic Games
Maximum number of athletes per event
The maximum number of athletes per athletics event at the 2024 Olympics is mentioned below.
For the men’s 4x100m relay and 4x400m meter relay, a total of 16 teams will be allowed to compete. For the Women’s 4x100m relay and 4x400m relay, a total of 16 teams will compete.
For mixed events, 16 teams can compete in the 4×400-meter mixed relay and 25 teams can compete in the 35km mixed team race walk.
