Olympic Games Paris 2024 sports calendar released

It’s official! The 32 sports on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games programme now know their events schedule, with 329 events spread across 18 days of competition from Wednesday 24 July to Sunday 11 August. The schedule, presented sport by sport, is attached to this media release in a PDF document. This provisional timetable is subject to change until the conclusion of the Games.

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329 events

The 329 events will take place across 762 sessions between 24 July and 11 August. With many highlights throughout the 19 days of competition, the Games begin with an action packed opening. Saturday 27 July, the first official competition day of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, will feature medal events for eight sports: cycling, with the women's and men's time trial, judo, fencing, diving, rugby, shooting, swimming and skateboarding.

Night sessions

Notably, all the finals of the swimming events and athletics will take place in the evenings, from 20:30 for swimming (with the exception of the last day from 18:30), and from 19:00 for Athletics.

The middle weekend (3-4 August) will also feature a thrilling line-up. Over those two days, medal events will take place in: tennis; table tennis; judo; fencing; athletics; archery; shooting; cycling; golf; equestrian; rowing; artistic gymnastics; badminton; and swimming.

Gender balance

Set to be the most gender balanced Olympic Games in history, the programme provides opportunities for both women’s and men’s competition to be in the spotlight. An emphasis has been placed on ensuring an alternation between men and women for the programming of team sports finals as well as in other individual disciplines.

Women’s marathon to conclude

The last day of the Olympic Games, Sunday 11 August, will highlight women’s sport. Wrestling, weightlifting and track cycling will conclude with women's events, while the women's basketball final will also take place this day. Then, only a few hours before the Closing Ceremony, for the first time since the introduction of the women's marathon to the Programme of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, the women's event, positioned the day after the men's event, will conclude the Paris 2024 athletics programme.

The Key facts

• Team sports taking centre stage from 24 July 2024, when the eight opening matches of the men’s football tournament will be played at venues all over France, while the Stade de France hosts the thrills and spills of the first 12 rugby sevens matches;  
• The men’s and women’s 100m freestyle swimming finals, and the silence of the Paris La Défense Arena crowd as they await the start of the race: at 8.30pm on 31 July;
• The electric atmosphere at the 110m and 100m hurdles finals in athletics at the Stade de France: from 7pm on 8 August for the men and 7pm on 10 August for the women;
• The handball finals in front of 27,000 frenzied spectators at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille: from 3pm on 10 August for the women and 1.30pm the following day for the men;
• The first ever breaking finals in Olympic Games history, at the foot of the Concorde obelisk: 8pm on 9 August for the B-Girls and the same time the next evening for the B-Boys;
• The Eventing cross-country Equestrian event, in the majestic setting of the gardens of the Château de Versailles: 28 July, from 10.30 am
• The new kitesurfing events in sailing, in the magnificent Marseille Marina: from 11am on 8 August;
• The men’s and women’s surfing quarters, semi-finals and finals on the mythical Teahupo’o wave in Tahiti: from 7am local time (7pm Paris time) on 30 July;
• The men’s individual archery final on the Esplanade des Invalides, starting at 1pm on 4 August;
• The very last Olympic gold medal to be decided (before the Paralympic Games begin two weeks later) at the women’s basketball final at the Bercy Arena, starting at 3.30pm on 11 August.