Haiti at the 2024 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:HAI
Nocname:Comité Olympique Haïtien
Games:Summer Olympics
Year:2024
Location:Paris, France
Competitors:7
Sports:5
Flagbearer Open:Lynnzee Brown
Philippe Metellus
Flagbearer Close:Cedrick Belony-Duliepre
Emelia Chatfield
Gold:0
Silver:0
Bronze:0
Appearances:auto

Haiti competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's eighteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, since its debut in 1900.

Competitors

The following is a list of the number of competitors participating in the Games for Haiti:

width=150Sportwidth=55Menwidth=55Womenwidth=55Total
Athletics1 1 2
Boxing1 0 1
Gymnastics0 1 1
Judo1 0 1
Swimming1 1 2
Total 4 3 7

All of the athletes are either born or grew up in the United States and Canada.[1]

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Haitian 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):[2] [3] [4]

Track and road events
AthleteEventPreliminaryHeatRepechageSemifinalFinal
ResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRank
Christopher BorzorMen's 100 m10.261 Q10.285Did not advance
Emelia ChatfieldWomen's 100 m hurdlesN/A13.06813.246Did not advance

Boxing

See main article: article, Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Haiti entered one boxer into the Olympic tournament. Cédrick Belony-Dulièpre (men's middleweight) qualified for the games through the allocation of universality spot.[5]

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Artistic

Haiti entered one gymnast to compete at Paris 2024. Lynnzee Brown obtained one quotas for the nations after receiving the Tripartite Commission invitations, marking the country's debut in the sport.[6]

Women

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Haiti qualified one judoka. Philippe Metellus revied a continental quota as the nation's top-ranked judoka outside of a direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List.[7]

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Haiti sent two swimmers to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[8]

AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Alexandre Grand'PierreMen's 100 m breaststroke1:02.8528Did not advance
Mayah ChoulouteWomen's 50 m freestyle29.7859Did 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: Haiti's Olympic athletes compete to inspire resilience in nation struggling with violence . PBS . 8 August 2024 . Megan . Janetsky . 11 August 2024.
  2. News: How to qualify for Athletics at Paris 2024. The Olympics Qualification System explained. International Olympic Committee. 20 December 2022. 20 July 2024.
  3. Web site: Road to Paris 24. World Athletics. 20 July 2024.
  4. Web site: Athletes. World Athletics. 20 July 2024.
  5. Web site: QUOTAS DISTRIBUTION PER NOC . Athlete365. 4 July 2024.
  6. Web site: DU Gymnastics' Alum Lynnzee Brown Qualifies for 2024 Olympics. Denver Pioneers. May 30, 2024.
  7. Web site: Olympic ranking — Men's 73 kg . . 28 May 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240528101141/https://www.ijf.org/wrl_olympic?category=3&view=expanded . 28 May 2024.
  8. Web site: Olympic Games Paris 2024 Athletes. World Aquatics. 20 July 2024.