| Event: | Athletics |
| Games: | 1924 Summer |
| Dates: | 6-13 July |
| Num Events: | 27 |
| Nations: | 34 |
| Competitors: | 386 |
| Prev: | 1920 |
| Next: | 1928 |
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.[1]
There were no events in athletics for women at this edition of the Olympic Games.
| 100 metres | ||||
| 200 metres | ||||
| 400 metres | ||||
| 800 metres | ||||
| 1500 metres | ||||
| 5000 metres | ||||
| 10,000 metres | ||||
| 110 metres hurdles | ||||
| 400 metres hurdles | ||||
| 3000 metres steeplechase | ||||
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Loren Murchison Louis Clarke Frank Hussey Alfred LeConey | Harold Abrahams Walter Rangeley Wilfred Nichol Lancelot Royle | Jan de Vries Jacob Boot Harry Broos Marinus van den Berge | |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Commodore Cochran Alan Helffrich Oliver MacDonald William Stevenson | Artur Svensson Erik Byléhn Gustaf Wejnarth Nils Engdahl | Edward Toms George Renwick Richard Ripley Guy Butler | |
| 3000 metres team race | Paavo Nurmi Ville Ritola Elias Katz | Bertram Macdonald Herbert Johnston George Webber | Edward Kirby William Cox Willard Tibbetts | |
| Marathon | ||||
| 10 kilometres walk | ||||
| Individual cross country | ||||
| Team cross country | Paavo Nurmi Ville Ritola Heikki Liimatainen | Earl Johnson Arthur Studenroth August Fager | Henri Lauvaux Gaston Heuet Maurice Norland | |
| High jump | ||||
| Pole vault | ||||
| Long jump | ||||
| Triple jump | ||||
| Shot put | ||||
| Discus throw | ||||
| Hammer throw | ||||
| Javelin throw | ||||
| Pentathlon | ||||
| Decathlon |
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.
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