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Charlotte Cooper. The first modern Olympic Games to feature female athletes was the 1900 Games in Paris. [3] Hélène de Pourtalès of Switzerland became the first woman to compete at the Olympic Games and became the first female Olympic champion, as a member of the winning team in the first 1 to 2 ton sailing event on May 22, 1900.
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
The women's heptathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 8 and 9 August 2024. This was the 11th time that the event was contested at the Summer Olympics. Nafissatou Thiam became the first women ever to win the gold medal in heptathlon three Olympics in a row. [1]
Paris hosted the first female athletes at the 1900 Olympics — in the second modern Games — with 22 of the 997 athletes in competition, or 2.2% of the total. The modern Olympics began in 1896 ...
Titmus and O’Callaghan, on June 12, 2024, became the first women to swim faster than Mark Spitz ever did. Spitz, an Olympic legend, swam to a then-unprecedented seven golds at the 1972 Games in ...
The 2024 Paris Olympics reached a landmark as the first Olympics with total gender parity, where 50% of the athletes present were women.But it was also a big Olympics for American women, who took ...
Paris 2024 was the first Olympics in history to reach full gender parity on the field of play, with equal numbers of male and female athletes. [12] The United States topped the medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games and 19th time overall, with 40 gold and 126 total medals. [13]
Great Britain, (known as Team GB or the 'Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team' [3]) the team of the British Olympic Association (BOA) which represents the United Kingdom, competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. The delegation of 327 athletes included 172 women and 155 men and featured 73 ...