| Noc: | CRO |
| Nocname: | Croatian Olympic Committee |
| Games: | Summer Olympics |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Location: | Paris, France |
| Website: | |
| Competitors: | 73 |
| Competitors Men: | 58 |
| Competitors Women: | 15 |
| Sports: | 15 |
| Flagbearer Open: | Giovanni Cernogoraz & Barbara Matić[1] |
| Flagbearer Close: | Ivan Šapina & Lena Stojković |
| Rank: | 30 |
| Gold: | 2 |
| Silver: | 2 |
| Bronze: | 3 |
| Appearances: | auto |
| See also: | (1900) (1920–1988) |
Croatia competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics as an independent nation.
Croatia is represented by 73 competitors (58 male and 15 female) in 15 sports, with a total delegation of 157 people.[2]
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| width="22%" align="left" valign="top"|| Medals by sport | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | |||
| Judo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Shooting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Rowing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Tennis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Water polo | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Athletics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Taekwondo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |||
| Medals by gender | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Total | |||||||
| Male | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Female | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Total | style=background:gold | 2 | style=background:silver | 2 | style=background:#c96 | 3 | 7 | |
| Medals by date | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | |||
| 29 July | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 31 July | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 2 August | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 3 August | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 5 August | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 7 August | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 11 August | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |||
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 | 4 | 5 | 9 | ||||
| Boxing | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Canoeing | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Cycling | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Gymnastics | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Handball | 14 | 0 | 14 | ||||
| Judo | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Rowing | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||||
| Sailing | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| Shooting | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| Swimming | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Table tennis | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Taekwondo | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||
| Water polo | 13 | 0 | 13 | ||||
| Total | 58 | 15 | 73 |
See main article: article, Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Croatian 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):[3]
| Athlete | Event | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | |||
| Bojana Bjeljac | align=left rowspan=2 | Women's marathon | 2:41:13 | 71 |
| Matea Parlov Koštro | ||||
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| Filip Pravdica | Men's long jump | 8.04 | 5 Q | 7.90 | 9 | |
| Filip Mihaljević | Men's shot put | 20.75 | 14 | Did not advance | ||
| Martin Marković | Men's discus throw | 62.31 | 16 | Did not advance | ||
| Matija Gregurić | Men's hammer throw | 73.69 | 17 | Did not advance | ||
| Sandra Elkasević | align=left rowspan=2 | Women's discus throw | 65.63 | 2 Q | 67.51 | |
| Marija Tolj | 59.87 | 23 | Did not advance | |||
| Sara Kolak | Women's javelin throw | 64.57 | 2 Q | 63.40 | 4 | |
See main article: article, Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Croatia entered one boxer into the Olympic tournament. Gabrijel Veočić scored an outright quarterfinal victory to secure a spot in the men's middleweight division at the 2023 European Games in Nowy Targ, Poland.[4]
See main article: Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Croatia entered one single boat into the slalom competition, for the Games through the 2023 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in London, Great Britain.[5]
Kayak cross
Croatian canoeists qualified one boats in the following distances for the Games through the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg, Germany.
Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)See main article: Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Croatia entered one BMX rider to compete in the men's freestyle, by finishing in the top six at the 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series.[6]
See main article: Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Croatia entered two male gymnasts into the Games. Tin Srbić directly secured his quota to compete at the Olympics by being the highest-ranked eligible athlete in the horizontal bar exercise at the 2023 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium;[7] meanwhile, Aurel Benović qualified through the final ranking of 2024 Apparatus World Cup Series.
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | ||||||||||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Aurel Benović | Floor | 13.766 | 13.766 | 28 | Did not advance | |||||||||||
| Vault | 14.733 | 14.733 | 3 Q | 14.900 | 14.900 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Tin Srbić | Horizontal bar | 14.600 | 14.600 | 4 Q | 11.333 | 11.333 | 8 | ||||||||||
See main article: Handball at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
See main article: Handball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Handball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Croatia men's national handball team qualified for the Olympics by securing a top two spot at the 2024 IHF Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments in Hanover, Germany.[8]
See main article: Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Croatia qualified three judokas for the following weight classes at the Games. Zlatko Kumrić (men's heavyweight, 100 kg), Katarina Krišto (women's half-middleweight, 63 kg) and Barbara Matić (women's middleweight, 70 kg) got qualified via quota based on IJF World Ranking List and continental quota based on Olympic point rankings.
| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | |||
| Zlatko Kumrić | Men's –100 kg | L 00–10 | Did not advance | ||||||
| Katarina Krišto | Women's –63 kg | W 10–00 | W 01–00 | W 10–00 | L 00–11 | L 00–10 | 5 | ||
| Barbara Matić | Women's –70 kg | W 10–00 | W 10–00 | W 10–00 | W 01–00 | ||||
See main article: Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Croatian rowers qualified boats in each of the following classes through the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Repechage | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Damir Martin | Men's single sculls | 6:54.83 | 2 QF | 6:53.55 | 2 SA/B | 6:58.23 | 6 FB | 6:57.77 | 11 | ||
| Valent Sinković Martin Sinković | Men's coxless pair | 6:35.28 | 1 SA/B | 6:29.98 | 1 FA | 6:23.66 | |||||
| Anton Lončarić Patrik Lončarić | Men's double sculls | 6:24.62 | 3 SA/B | 6:49.51 | 6 FB | 6:26.04 | 12 | ||||
See main article: Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Croatian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2023 Sailing World Championships in The Hague, Netherlands; and 2024 ILCA European Championships in Athens, Greece.
| Athlete | Event | Opening Series | Final Series | Final rank | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Net Points | Rank | QF | SF1 | SF2 | SF3 | SF4 | SF5 | SF6 | F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | F6 | |||
| Palma Čargo | Women's IQFoil | 17 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 9 | (25) | (25) | 1 | 121 | 12 | Did not advance | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Martin Dolenc | Men's Formula Kite | 14 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 53 | 14 | Did not advance | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | M* | ||||
| Filip Jurišić | Men's ILCA 7 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 24 | 28 | 14 | EL | 115 | 19 | |||||
| Šime Fantela Mihovil Fantela | Men's 49er | 12 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 1 | (22) | 107 | 9 | |
| Elena Vorobeva | Women's ILCA 6 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 18 | 97 | 6 | ||||
See main article: Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Croatian shooters achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2022 and 2023 ISSF World Championships, 2022, 2023, and 2024 European Championships, 2023 European Games, and 2024 ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament.[9]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Petar Gorša | Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 583 | 31 | Did not advance | |
| Men's 10 m air rifle | 629.8 | 8 Q | 165.6 | 6 | ||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Miran Maričić | Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 585 | 26 | Did not advance | |
| Men's 10 m air rifle | 631.3 | 4 Q | 230.0 | |||
| Giovanni Cernogoraz | Men's trap | 122 | 7 | Did not advance | ||
See main article: article, Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Croatian swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT):[10] [11] [12]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| Jere Hribar | Men's 50 m freestyle | 22.08 | 22 | Did not advance | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Nikola Miljenić | Men's 100 m freestyle | 49.34 | 33 | Did not advance | |||
| Men's 100 m butterfly | 53.32 | 30 | Did not advance | |||||
| Jana Pavalić | Women's 50 m freestyle | 25.24 | 25 | Did not advance | ||||
See main article: Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Croatia entered a full squad of male athletes and one women single player into the Games. Croatian men's senior team qualified by virtue of the results as the three highest team, not yet qualified, through the final ITTF teams ranking.[13] ; meanwhile one women's qualified for the games through the world ranking.
| Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
| Andrej Gaćina | align=left rowspan=2 | Men's singles | W 4–1 | L 0–4 | Did not advance | ||||
| Tomislav Pucar | W 4–0 | L 0–4 | Did not advance | ||||||
| Andrej Gaćina Tomislav Pucar Filip Zeljko | Men's team | L 0–3 | Did not advance | ||||||
| Ivana Malobabić | Women's singles | L 3–4 | Did not advance | ||||||
See main article: Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Croatia qualified three athlete to compete at the games. Ivan Šapina and Lena Stojković qualified for Paris 2024 by finishing within the top five in the Olympic rankings in their respective divisions. Meanwhile, the third athlete, Marko Golubić, qualified for the Games after his semifinal victory at the 2024 European Olympic Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.
| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | |||
| Marko Golubić | Men's −68 kg | W 2–0 | L 1–2 | Did not advance | ||||
| Ivan Šapina | Men's +80 kg | W 2–0 | W 2–1 | L 1–2 | L 0–2 | 5 | ||
| Lena Stojković | Women's −49 kg | W 2–0 | W 2–1 | L 0–2 | W 2–0 | |||
See main article: article, Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Croatia entered four tennis players into the Olympic tournament.
| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | |||
| Nikola Mektić Mate Pavić | Men's doubles | L 3–6, 7–6(7–5), [5–10] | Did not advance | ||||||
| Petra Martić | align=left rowspan=2 | Women's singles | L 4–6, 3–6 | Did not advance | |||||
| Donna Vekić | W 6–2, 7–5 | W 6–3, 6–4 | W 7–6(9–7), 6–2 | W 6–4, 2–6, 7–6(10–8) | W 6–4, 6–0 | L 2–6, 3–6 | |||
| Donna Vekić Mate Pavić | Mixed doubles | align=center colspan=2 | Withdrew due to Vekić wanting to focus on her solo performance | ||||||
See main article: Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
See main article: Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Croatia men's national water polo team qualified for the Olympics by securing an outright berth at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships.[14]