Paris 2024 Olympics: with 16 gold medals, France beats its record since 1996

Published by Philippine de Sortiraparis · Photos by Graziella de Sortiraparis · Published on August 11, 2024 at 03:17 p.m.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are over in just a few hours, and so far France has 16 gold medals to its name, surpassing its medal record not broken since 1996 at the Atlanta Games.

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are almost over and finally many Parisians are sad to see this end come. After exceptional excitement for the Games, extraordinary performances by athletes in spectacular venues, it's time for the Paris 2024 Olympics to hand over the torch to Los Angeles for the 2028 Games, which will be done tonight at the closing ceremony. France has won a total of 16 gold medals so far, bringing them up to 5th place in the rankings, and enabling them to beat their record medal haul since 1996 at the Atlanta Games!

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Gold, silver or bronze, all medals are beautiful when they're around the necks of our French athletes. Here's the table of medals won by Les Bleus at these Paris 2024 Olympic Games. [Read more]

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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games is obviously the major sporting event of this summer, bringing together over 200 countries in the French capital. When it comes to medals, will France come out on top on home soil? We tell you all about it! [Read more]

This record is based on the most recent Games, since in 1900 Paris hosted the Games and France won 27 medals, but more than half the participants in the Olympics were French. In Atlanta in 1996, France won 15 medals, compared with 10 medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. French athletes achieved feats in volleyball, rugby 7s, swimming, taekwondo, mountain biking and many other categories! Carried along by a crazy public throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the athletes simply made us dream.

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