Key figures from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
The results are in. World-class performances from the athletes are done and dusted and the world stage has closed its curtain on the Paris Olympic Games that displayed herculean feats, heart-wrenching drama, comedic gold and tearful tragedies.
Now Olympics.com takes a look at the key figures of the spectacular sporting show.
Sports
The Games are the equivalent of forty world championships held at the same time!
From 24 July :
- 760 sessions organised in 32 Olympic sports
- Nearly 850 medals won
- 85 medal-winning countries
- 42 records broken, including 10 world records and 32 Olympic records
Spectators, TV viewers and social media followers
Record crowds and an unrivalled atmosphere:
- More than 9.5 million tickets sold for the Olympic Games, with spectators from 222 different countries
- 62% French buyers, 38% international buyers
- Top 5 : United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands
- Nearly 450,000 spectators for the Beach Volleyball at the foot of the Eiffel Tower
- 743,000 spectators on 30 July alone
- 66,000 spectators for a women’s rugby sevens match, a new attendance world record
- Nearly 1 million people took to the streets of Paris for the men’s and women’s road cycling events
- 145,000 spectators in the Carrés des Supporters (French Supporter blocks at the different venues)
- 400,000 hot dogs sold at competition venues, including 100,000 vegetarian dogs
- 2.4 billion views on Paris 2024 social platforms
- 24.4 million viewers watched the opening ceremony on France Télévisions
The Games celebrated all over Paris and France
- 6 million visitors to celebration sites
- More than 3.8 million visitors to ‘Clubs 2024’ across France (as of 09/08)
- A total of 213,000 visitors at the Champions Park (as of 09/08), a new concept which was a first in the history of the Summer Olympic Games
- 200,000 reservations to visit the Olympic Cauldron in the Tuileries Gardens
- A total of 1 million visitors to the Nations Park in La Vilette (as at 09/08)
- More than 6,000 activities listed on the Carte des Jeux
Life in the Olympic Village
- 11,804 athletes at peak occupancy on August 3
- 150 hairdresser and manicure appointments every day
- 4,000 pastries, 600 baguettes and 3,000 muffins served every day
- 90 people working at peak hours in the Village laundry service
Lovers of the Games
To our knowledge … 7 wedding proposals were made during the Games, including a double proposal in Marseille following the sailing events.
Other Paris 2024 facts and figures
Paris 2024 – A series of ‘firsts’: the 1st Paralympic Games in France, the 1st Games to reach gender parity, the 1st Champions Park at the Trocadéro, the 1st Opening Ceremony outside of a stadium, the 1st Marathon for All, etc.
A budget of €4.4 billion, 95% private funding, 84 domestic partners, more than 180,000 people working directly for the Games between 2017 and 2024, more than 2,000 contracted companies
10,500 Olympic athletes, 4,400 Paralympic athletes, 206 Olympic delegations, 182 Paralympic delegations, 32 Olympic sports including 4 additional sports, 22 Paralympic sports
4,200 Paris 2024 employees, 45,000 volunteers
95% existing or temporary infrastructures, 39 Olympic competition venues, 17 Paralympic competition venues, 4,000 housing units created in Seine-Saint-Denis
More than 4,600 local authorities were awarded the “Terre de Jeux 2024” label, 2,500 projects and events awarded the Cultural Olympiad label, more than 40,000 race bibs distributed for the Marathon for All, more than 200 ‘Clubs 2024’ throughout France, 10,000 Olympic Torchbearers, 1,000 Paralympic Torchbearers, 8 million spectators along the Torch Relay route.