| 1924 Summer Olympics medals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) Paavo Nurmi ofFinland was an athlete with the most gold medals at the 1924 Summer Olympics, winning five golds in the sport ofathletics. | ||||
| Location | Paris, France | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Most gold medals |  United States (45) | |||
| Most total medals | United States (99) | |||
| Medalling NOCs | 27 | |||
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The1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held inParis, France, from 4 May to 27 July. A total of 3,089 athletes from 44 nations participated in 126 events in 17 sports across 23 different disciplines.[1][2]
Overall, athletes from 27 nations received at least one medal, and 19 of them won at least one gold medal. Athletes from theUnited States won the most medals overall, with 99, and the most gold medals, with 45.[3] Athletes fromFinland came second in the medal table with 14 gold medals and 37 overall medals, while athletes from host nationFrance came third with 13 gold medals and 38 medals overall.[4]Czechoslovakia's team won their nation's first Olympic gold medal.[5] Teams fromArgentina,[6][7]Uruguay,[3] andYugoslavia won their nations' first Olympic gold medal and Olympic medal of any color.[8] Meanwhile, teams fromHaiti,[9]Poland,[10]Portugal,[11] andRomania won their nations' first Olympic medals.[12]
Middle-distance andlong-distance runnerPaavo Nurmi of Finland won the most gold medals for an individual at the Games and the most gold medals in athletics at a single Games, with five gold medals.[13][14] Compatriot long-distance runnerVille Ritola won the most overall medals and the most medals in athletics at a single Games, winning six medals with four golds and two silvers.[15][14]
The medal table is based on information provided by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation won, where a nation is an entity represented by aNational Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[16]
Ingymnastics, two silver medals (and no bronze) were awarded toJean Gounot andFrançois Gangloff for a second-place tie in themen's sidehorse vault event,[17] while two bronze medals were awarded toLadislav Vácha andAugust Güttinger for a third-place tie in themen's rope climbing event.[18] Inrowing, no bronze medal was awarded in themen's coxless pair event, as there were only two teams that participated in the final afterGordon Killick andThomas Southgate ofGreat Britain got injured and did not start.[19]
* Host nation (France)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 45 | 27 | 27 | 99 |
| 2 |  Finland | 14 | 13 | 10 | 37 |
| 3 | France* | 13 | 15 | 10 | 38 |
| 4 |  Great Britain | 9 | 13 | 12 | 34 |
| 5 |  Italy | 8 | 3 | 5 | 16 |
| 6 |  Switzerland | 7 | 8 | 10 | 25 |
| 7 |  Norway | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 8 |  Sweden | 4 | 13 | 12 | 29 |
| 9 |  Netherlands | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 10 |  Belgium | 3 | 7 | 3 | 13 |
| 11 |  Australia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 12 |  Denmark | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 |
| 13 |  Hungary | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 14 |  Yugoslavia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 |  Czechoslovakia | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 16 |  Argentina | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 17 |  Estonia | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 18 |  South Africa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 19 |  Uruguay | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 |  Austria | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
 Canada | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 22 |  Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 23 |  Haiti | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Portugal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (27 entries) | 126 | 127 | 125 | 378 | |
The 1924 Summer Olympics also includedart competitions across five disciplines: architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture, for works inspired by sport-related themes, were medal-eligible events at the time.[21][22]Art competitions were held from the1912 Summer Olympics until the1948 Summer Olympics, but were discontinued over theamateurism controversy.[23] Medals in art competitions are no longer recognized by the IOC as part of the total medal count.[24][25]
In architecture, no gold medal was awarded while the silver was awarded to the pair ofAlfréd Hajós andDezső Lauber ofHungary. Hajós became one of only two Olympians ever to have won medals in both sport (two golds inswimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics) and art Olympic competitions.[26][27] The bronze was awarded toJulien Médecin ofMonaco, who became the first Monégasque competitor to win an Olympic medal.[b][28]
In literature, one gold, which was awarded toGéo-Charles of France, two silvers toJosef Petersen ofDenmark andMargaret Stuart of Great Britain, and two bronzes toCharles Gonnet of France andOliver Gogarty ofIreland, were awarded.[21] Two compositions, entitled "The Land Where the Rose is Grown" and "O Vigila (now let the games begin)", that were part of the literature competition, were also part of the music competitions. The compositions were made byGeorge Bamber of Great Britain, though no medals were awarded in the music competition as the jury could not reach a consensus to award medals for any of the competitors.[22]
In painting,Jean Jacoby ofLuxembourg won the gold medal, becoming the first Luxembourgish competitor to win an Olympic gold medal,[c]Jack Butler Yeats of Ireland won the silver, becoming the first Irish competitor to win an Olympic medal,[b][32] andJohan van Hell of theNetherlands won the bronze.[33]
In sculpture,Konstantinos Dimitriadis ofGreece won the gold medal,Frantz Heldenstein of Luxembourg won the silver, and two bronze medals were awarded, one toJean René Gauguin of Denmark and the other toClaude-Léon Mascaux of France.[34]
* Host nation (France)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Luxembourg | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | France* | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 |  Greece | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Denmark | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Ireland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 |  Monaco | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (9 entries) | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | |
