Sebastian Coe can rejoice: the Paris 2024 Games will remain a great vintage for athletics. And even a vintage for history. World Athletics rushed to publish the most significant figures and statistics from the Olympic event. They impose it. No less than 27 countries won at least one gold medal, two more than the previous record. Four of them – Dominica, Pakistan, Saint Lucia and Botswana – won the first Olympic title in their history in all disciplines. With 43 countries on the medal table, Paris 2024 equals Tokyo 2024 as the most universal athletics event in more than 20 years. Individually, 26 athletes won several medals, including the Dutch Femke Bol (gold in the mixed 4x400m, silver in the women's 4x400m, bronze in the 400m hurdles) and Sifan Hassan (gold in the marathon, bronze in the 5000m and 10.000 m), and the American Gabby Thomas (gold in the 200 m, 4x100 m and 4x400 m). American Quincy Wilson, 16, became the youngest men's Olympic gold medalist in history after running the 4x400m relay series. In the points classification, established by totaling individual performances, Paris 2024 obtains 198.320 points and is ahead, in order, of Tokyo 2020 (197), Rio 115 (2016), London 195 (953, Beijing 2012 (192), and Athens 456 (2008). The Paris 191 Olympics were marked by the fall of three world records (Mondo Duplantis in the pole vault, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in the 749m hurdles, the United States in the mixed 2004x190m), 871 Olympic records, two best Olympic decathlon performances, 2024 continental records, 400 national records and 4 personal bests. In terms of media, more than a million articles have been published worldwide on athletics events. Finally, World Athletics recorded 400 new followers on its social networks during the Games.
