page_title: France at the 2012 Summer Olympics
section_title: Athletics
hierarchical_section_title: France at the 2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Renaud Lavillerie au défilé des médaillés français des J0 2012
context_page_description: France competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, between 27 July and 12 August 2012. French athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era. The French Olympic Committee sent a total of 330 athletes to the Games, 183 men and 147 women, to compete in 24 sports.
  France left London with a total of 34 medals—11 gold, 11 silver, and 12 bronze—finishing seventh in the gold medal standings and eighth in the overall medal standings. Most of these medals were awarded to the athletes in judo, cycling and swimming. Six French athletes won more than a single Olympic medal in London. France's team-based athletes proved successful at these games, as the men's national handball team and the women's national basketball team won gold and silver medals, respectively. Furthermore, the men's national handball team managed to defend its 2008 Olympic title from Beijing. For the first time since 1960, France did not win an Olympic medal in fencing.
  Among the nation's medalists were Yannick Agnel and Camille Muffat, who emerged as France's most successful Olympic swimmers after winning three medals, including a gold, in their events.
context_section_description: French athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):
  Key
  Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
  Q = Qualified for the next round
  q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
  NR = National record
  N/A = Round not applicable for the event
  Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
  Men
  Track & road events
  * Tested positive for the blood-booster EPO; the IOC ordered him to leave the Olympics on 10 August 2012.
  Field events
  Combined events – Decathlon
  Women
  Track & road events
  Field events
  Combined events – Heptathlon
caption: Renaud Lavillenie displayed his gold medal in men's pole vault.
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