# Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics

At the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, 27 athletics events were contested, all for men only. The competitions were held from 6 to 13 July.
There were no events in athletics for women at this edition of the Olympic Games.

## Medal summary

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Harold Abrahams Great Britain | Jackson Scholz United States | Arthur Porritt New Zealand |
| 200 metres details | Jackson Scholz United States | Charles Paddock United States | Eric Liddell Great Britain |
| 400 metres details | Eric Liddell Great Britain | Horatio Fitch United States | Guy Butler Great Britain |
| 800 metres details | Douglas Lowe Great Britain | Paul Martin Switzerland | Schuyler Enck United States |
| 1500 metres details | Paavo Nurmi Finland | Willy Schärer Switzerland | H. B. Stallard Great Britain |
| 5000 metres details | Paavo Nurmi Finland | Ville Ritola Finland | Edvin Wide Sweden |
| 10,000 metres details | Ville Ritola Finland | Edvin Wide Sweden | Eero Berg Finland |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Daniel Kinsey United States | Sid Atkinson South Africa | Sten Pettersson Sweden |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Morgan Taylor United States | Erik Vilen Finland | Ivan Riley United States |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Ville Ritola Finland | Elias Katz Finland | Paul Bontemps France |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | 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 details | 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 details | 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 details | Albin Stenroos Finland | Romeo Bertini Italy | Clarence DeMar United States |
| 10 kilometres walk details | Ugo Frigerio Italy | Gordon Goodwin Great Britain | Cecil McMaster South Africa |
| Individual cross country details | Paavo Nurmi Finland | Ville Ritola Finland | Earl Johnson United States |
| Team cross country details | 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 |
| High jump details | Harold Osborn United States | Leroy Brown United States | Pierre Lewden France |
| Pole vault details | Lee Barnes United States | Glenn Graham United States | James Brooker United States |
| Long jump details | DeHart Hubbard United States | Edward Gourdin United States | Sverre Hansen Norway |
| Triple jump details | Nick Winter Australia | Luis Brunetto Argentina | Vilho Tuulos Finland |
| Shot put details | Bud Houser United States | Glenn Hartranft United States | Ralph Hills United States |
| Discus throw details | Bud Houser United States | Vilho Niittymaa Finland | Thomas Lieb United States |
| Hammer throw details | Fred Tootell United States | Matt McGrath United States | Malcolm Nokes Great Britain |
| Javelin throw details | Jonni Myyrä Finland | Gunnar Lindström Sweden | Eugene Oberst United States |
| Pentathlon details | Eero Lehtonen Finland | Elemér Somfay Hungary | Robert LeGendre United States |
| Decathlon details | 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 |
| 9 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 12 | Estonia (EST) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | New Zealand (NZL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 27 | 27 | 27 | 81 |

## 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.
| 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) |