Paris 2024 Olympics athletics: India’s results, times, marks and medals - full list
A 29-member Indian athletics team, headlined by Neeraj Chopra, competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics from August 1 to 9. Athletics kicked off on August 1 with race walking, the track and field events began on August 2.
Athletics at the Olympics included 48 medal events in all. They were held across four venues: Pont d'Iéna for race walking, Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides for the start and end points of the marathon races and Stade de France for the track and field events.
Chopra, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion, won silver in the men’s javelin throw for India’s only medal in athletics at Paris 2024.
Meanwhile, Asian Games champion Avinash Sable was the only Indian athlete besides Neeraj Chopra to make the finals in the track and field events at the Paris 2024 Olympics from qualifying rounds. Sable finished 11th in the men’s 3000m steeplechase final.
India’s Paris 2024 team consisted of eight athletes who also competed at Tokyo 2020. Besides Neeraj Chopra and Avinash Sable, Annu Rani, Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Priyanka Goswami, Muhammed Anas, Amoj Jacob and Subha Venkatesan represented India at the Olympics three years ago.
Among noteworthy changes to the athletics programme at Paris 2024, the marathon race walk relay mixed event replaced the men's 50km race walk event from Tokyo 2020. However, India’s Suraj Panwar and Priyanka Goswami registered a DNF (did not finish) on India’s marathon race walk relay mixed event debut.
Paris 2024 also saw repechage rounds introduced in select athletics events.
Paris 2024 Olympics athletics: India squad
Men: Avinash Sable (3000m steeplechase), Neeraj Chopra (javelin throw), Kishore Jena (javelin throw), Tajinderpal Singh Toor (shot put), Praveen Chithravel (triple jump), Abdulla Aboobacker (triple jump), Sarvesh Kushare (high jump), Akshdeep Singh (20km race walk), Vikash Singh (20km race walk), Paramjeet Singh Bisht (20km race walk), Muhammed Anas (4x400m relay), Muhammed Ajmal (4x400m relay), Amoj Jacob (4x400m relay), Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan (4x400m relay), Rajesh Ramesh (4x400m relay), Mijo Chacko Kurian (4x400m relay), Suraj Panwar (race walk mixed marathon), Jeswin Aldrin (long jump)
Women: Kiran Pahal (400m), Parul Chaudhary (3000m steeplechase and 5,000m), Jyothi Yarraji (100m hurdles), Annu Rani (javelin throw), Jyothika Sri Dandi (4x400m relay), Subha Venkatesan (4x400m relay), Vithya Ramraj (4x400m relay), MR Poovamma (4x400m relay), Prachi (4x400m relay), Priyanka Goswami (20km race walk and race walk mixed marathon), Ankita Dhyani (5000m)
Paris 2024 Olympics India’s athletics medal winners
Glossary: DNQ - did not qualify; NA - not applicable; DNF - did not finish