Olympic Games 2024: Sports Calendar Released

Just over two years left for Olympic Games 2024 to start. The Organising Committee has officially released the sports competition calendar for the games. A total of 329 events will occur across 762 sessions between July 24 and August 11.

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This is the first time this century and the third time ever that France has hosted the summer edition of the Games. Olympic Games 2024 will start on 26th July 2024. The opening ceremony will be held along the River Seine. The competition will continue for 19 days with an action-packed opening.

Total sports:

1. Archery
2. Athletics
3. Badminton
4. Basketball
5. Basketball 3×3
6. Boxing, Canoe
7. Road Cycling
8. Cycling Track
9. Mountain Biking
10. BMX Freestyle
11. BMX Racing
12. Equestrian
13. Fencing
14. Football
15. Golf
16. Artistic Gymnastics
17. Rhythmic Gymnastics
18. Trampoline
19. Handball
20. Hockey
21. Judo
22. Modern Pentathlon
23. Rowing
24. Rugby
25. Sailing
26. Shooting
27. Table Tennis
28. Taekwondo
29. Tennis
30. Triathlon
31. Volleyball
32. Beach Volleyball
33. Diving
34. Marathon Swimming
35. Artistic Swimming
36. Swimming
37. Water Polo
38. Weightlifting
39. Wrestling

4 additional sports:

1. Breaking
2. Sport Climbing
3. Skateboarding
4. Surfing

329 events

27th July is the first official competition day of the Olympic Games 2024. It will feature medal events in eight sports- cycling (men's and women's time trials), judo, fencing, diving, rugby, shooting, swimming, and skateboarding.

Night sessions

Notably, all the finals of the swimming events and athletics will take place in the evenings, from 20:30 for swimming (except the last day from 18:30) to 19:00 for Athletics.

The middle weekend (3-4 August) will also feature a busy line-up. Over those two days, medal events will take place in tennis, table tennis, judo, fencing, athletics, archery, shooting, cycling, golf, equestrian, rowing, artistic gymnastics, badminton, and swimming.

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Gender Balance

Set to be the most gender-balanced Olympic Games in history, the program provides opportunities for both women's and men's competitions to be in the spotlight. An emphasis has been placed on ensuring an alternation between men and women for the programming of team sports finals as well as in other individual disciplines.

The last day of the Olympic Games, Sunday 11 August, will highlight women's sports. Wrestling, weightlifting, and track cycling will conclude with women's events, while the women's basketball final will also take place on this day. Then, only a few hours before the Closing Ceremony, for the first time since the introduction of the women's marathon to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, the women's event, positioned the day after the men's event, will conclude the Paris 2024 athletics program.

The key facts:

• Team sports taking centre stage from 24 July 2024, when the eight opening matches of the men's football tournament will be played at venues all over France, while the Stade de France hosts the thrills and spills of the first 12 rugby sevens matches;  
• The men's and women's 100m freestyle swimming finals, and the silence of the Paris La Défense Arena crowd as they await the start of the race: at 8.30 pm on 31 July;
• The electric atmosphere at the 110m and 100m hurdles finals in athletics at the Stade de France: from 7 pm on 8 August for the men and 7 pm on 10 August for the women;
• The handball finals in front of 27,000 frenzied spectators at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille: from 3 pm on 10 August for the women and 1.30 pm the following day for the men;
• The first ever breaking finals in Olympic Games history, at the foot of the Concorde obelisk: 8 pm on 9 August for the B-Girls and the same time the next evening for the B-Boys;
• The Eventing cross-country Equestrian event, in the majestic setting of the gardens of the Château de Versailles: 28 July, from 10.30 am
• The new kitesurfing events in sailing, in the magnificent Marseille Marina: from 11 am on 8 August;
• The men's and women's surfing quarters, semi-finals, and finals on the mythical Teahupo'o wave in Tahiti: from 7 am local time (7 pm Paris time) on 30 July;
• The men's individual archery final on the Esplanade des Invalides, starting at 1 pm on 4 August;
• The very last Olympic gold medal to be decided (before the Paralympic Games begin two weeks later) at the women's basketball final at the Bercy Arena, starting at 3.30 pm on 11 August.