Dominica at the 2024 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:DMA
Nocname:Dominica Olympic Committee
Games:Summer Olympics
Year:2024
Location:Paris, France
Competitors:4
Sports:2
Flagbearer Open:Dennick Luke & Thea LaFond
Flagbearer Close:Thea LaFond
Rank:62
Gold:1
Silver:0
Bronze:0
Appearances:auto
App Begin Year:1996

Dominica competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.

Thea LaFond won the country's first, and to date, only medal—a gold in the women's triple jump on 3 August.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

width=180Sportwidth=55Menwidth=55Womenwidth=55Total
Athletics1 1 2
Swimming1 1 2
Total 2 2 4

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Dominican 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]

Track and road events
Field events

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. For the first time since 2000, Dominica competed in swimming. Dominica received two universality quotas (one per gender).[2]

AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Warren LawrenceMen's 50 m freestyle24.6752Did not advance
Jasmine SchofieldWomen's 50 m freestyle29.9160Did not advance

Qualifiers for the latter rounds (Q) of all events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Athletics at Paris 2024: The entry standards. International Olympic Committee. 20 December 2022. 27 December 2022.
  2. Web site: Initial Olympic Swimming Entries Published for 2024 Paris Games. Race. Retta. 12 July 2024. www.swimswam.com. SwimSwam. 25 July 2024.