European athletes enjoyed a very successful Olympic Games Paris 2024, winning 12 of the gold medals on offer and 46 medals in total.
This means that European athletes won 25 percent of the Olympic titles and just under a third of all the medals.
No less than nine European nations came away with gold medals from the French capital – with The Netherlands, Norway and Spain taking two apiece – and another eight won medals of another hue, meaning that more than a third of the European Athletics Member Federations stood on the podium in the Stade de France.
"I would like to congratulate each and every Paris 2024 Olympian, but especially those from Europe. It has been a thrilling 11 days of athletics that have captivated the world and I am very proud it has taken place on European soil," said European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov.
"It was especially pleasing to see so many competitors, and medallists, from the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships also wearing their country’s colours once again, and this time being successful on a global stage.
“It proved beyond doubt that the European Athletics Championships are the perfect preparation for elite athletes who have ambitions of Olympic glory.
“This was among the reasons why the biennial championships were inaugurated in 2012, and it will continue to be very relevant in 2028 and beyond.," added Karamarinov, who was present in the French capital as both European Athletics President and a World Athletics Council Member.
"Looking ahead, firstly I am hoping to welcome as many as possible of Europe’s Olympic champions to our glittering annual Gold Tracks gala evening in Skopje, North Macedonia in just over two months’ time, when we will crown the male and female European Athlete of the Year.
“Secondly, I hope many of Europe’s Paris 2024 Olympians, and especially the medallists, will be at the Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships to show off their talent once again.”
The spectacular Golden Tracks awards ceremony will be on Saturday 26 October in Skopje, North Macedonia when the men’s and women’s European Athlete of the Year and Rising Star for 2024 will be announced.
The list of candidates for all four categories will be announced during the week beginning 16 September.
The 2024 Golden Tracks awards ceremony will also streamed live on the European Athletics YouTube channel.
From a European perspective, the outstanding performance in Paris was the pole vault world record of 6.25m by Sweden’s Armand Duplantis but there was also a world best and inaugural Olympic record of 2:50:31 in the marathon race walk mixed relay by Spain’s Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez.
RECORD DU MONDO!
— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) August 5, 2024
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Four other European records also fell at Paris 2024: Matthew Hudson Smith clocked 43.44 to win the silver medal in the men’s 400m and then helped Great Britain to bronze in the 4x400m in 2:55.83, France’s Alice Finot improved the European 3000m steeplechase record to 8:58.67 while The Netherlands, anchored by Femke Bol, won the mixed 4.400m in a European record 3:07.43.
Europe’s Olympic Games Paris 2024 gold medallists
- Men’s 5000m – Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
- Men’s pole vault – Armand Duplantis (SWE)
- Men’s long jump – Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)
- Men’s triple jump – Jordan Diaz Fortun (ESP)
- Men’s decathlon – Markus Rooth (NOR)
- Women’s 800m – Keely Hodgkinson (GBR)
- Women’s marathon – Sifan Hassan (NED)
- Women’s high jump – Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR)
- Women’s shot put – Yemisi Ogunleye (GER)
- Women’s heptathlon – Nafi Thiam (BEL)
- Mixed 4x400m – The Netherlands (Eugene Omalla, Lieke Klaver, Isaya Klein Ikkink, Femke Bol)
- Marathon race walk mixed relay – Alvaro Martin & Maria Perez (ESP)