| Noc: | ALB |
| Nocname: | Albanian National Olympic Committee |
| Games: | Summer Olympics |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Website: | |
| Location: | Paris, France |
| Competitors: | 8 |
| Competitors Men: | 5 |
| Competitors Women: | 3 |
| Sports: | 4 |
| Flagbearer Open: | Zelimkhan Abakarov & Kaltra Meça |
| Flagbearer Close: | Islam Dudaev |
| Rank: | 80 |
| Gold: | 0 |
| Silver: | 0 |
| Bronze: | 2 |
| Appearances: | auto |
Albania competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024, represented by the Albanian National Olympic Committee (KOKSH). It signified the nation's tenth appearance at the summer Olympics, since the official debut in 1972, except for 1976, 1980 due to the US led boycott, 1984 due to USSR led boycott, 1988, the nation's return for the Olympics in 1992.
Albania earned their first Olympic medals in any sport, with wrestler Chermen Valiev winning bronze in the men's freestyle 74 kg category, and later earning their second bronze won by fellow wrestler Islam Dudaev in the men's freestyle 65 kg category.
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| width="22%" align="left" valign="top"|| Medals by sport | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | |||
| Wrestling | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Medals by gender | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Total | |||||||
| Female | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Male | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Mixed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | style=background:gold | 0 | style=background:silver | 0 | style=background:#c96 | 2 | 2 | |
| Medals by date | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | |||
| 10 August | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 11 August | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
| width=180 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletics | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Shooting | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Swimming | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Wrestling | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 5 | 3 | 8 |
See main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Albanian track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):[1] [2] [3]
| Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Franko Burraj | Men's 100 m | 10.60 | 2 Q | 10.66 | 8 | Did not advance | |||
| Luiza Gega | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 9:27.41 | 9 | Did not advance | |||||
See main article: Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Albanian shooters achieved one quota places for Paris 2024 based on the allocations of universality spots.[4]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Manjola Konini | Women's 10 m air pistol | 549 | 43 | Did not advance | |
| Women's 25 m pistol | 569-10x | 37 | Did not advance | |||
See main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Albania sent two swimmers to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| Grisi Koxhaku | Men's 100 m freestyle | 52:32 | 62 | Did not advance | ||||
| Kaltra Meça | Women's 200 m freestyle | 2:12.21 | 27 | Did not advance | ||||
See main article: Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. For the first time since 2008, Albania qualified three wrestlers for the following classes into the Olympic competition. Zelimkhan Abakarov qualified for the games by virtue of top five results through the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia; meanwhile Islam Dudaev and Chermen Valiev qualified for the games through the 2024 World Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.[5] [6]
| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage | Final / | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | |||
| Zelimkhan Abakarov | Men's −57 kg | W 7–6PP | L 0–12ST | Did not advance | 8 | |||
| Islam Dudaev | Men's −65 kg | W 10–0 | L 0–11 | Did not advance | W 5–0VB | W 13–12 | ||
| Chermen Valiev | Men's −74 kg | W 4–3 | L 5–6 | Did not advance | W 12–2 | W 6–2 | ||