Olympic Sports Highlights
Olympic Sports Highlights
Archery is a bow and arrow sport that uses a bow and arrow to shoot at a
target.
Mechanics of Archery
both athletes shoot three arrows each. In team events, each match is a
maximum of four sets with six arrows per set (two per athlete). Each team is
allotted two minutes to shoot an end of six arrows. For the mixed team
events, each match is a maximum of four sets with four arrows per set, two
per athlete.
Winner
Kim Woojin (South Korea ) won the men's archery gold at the Paris
Olympics
Lim Sihyeon (South korea) won the gold medalist in women archery.
Brady Ellison ( USA) won bronze in the mixed team event and he won e
men’s individual.
Kim Woojin
Lim sehyeon
Brady Ellison
Lee Wooseok
Gymnasts compete in the all-around and event finals. The all-around final
involves competing in all four or six events individually. The event finals
involve the top eight gymnasts in each event competing for medals.
Winners
3. artistic swimming is a exhibition swimming in which the movements of
one or more swimmers are synchronized with musical accompaniment.
Winners
Republic of China came out on top of the team competition to clinch Olympic
gold for the very first time with a incredible final score of 996.1389.
Spain secured the bronze medal, showcasing their impressive skills and
artistry with a final score 914.3421
Broze : Txell Ferré, Marina García, Blanca Toledano, Lilou Lluis, Meritxell
Mas,Alisa Ozhogina, Paula Ramírez, Sara Saldaña.
Athlete in the Olympics men and women compete separately. These are
played in indoor and outdoor formats. All the indoor competitions are held in
winter while the outdoor events are held in summer.
Winners
Tola Tamirat of Ethiopia ran the race of his life won a gold medal with a new
Olympic record of 2:06:26
Mechanics of Badminton
It’s played in a best-of-three games format. To win the match, a player must
secure two out of three games, each played to 21 points. Additionally, a
player must achieve a 2-point advantage to win a game. If that advantage is
not reached, the first player to score 30 points wins the game.
Winners
China won the most number of medals (2 gold and 3 silver) with 22-20 21-
15 sweep
South Korea coming second with one gold and one silver with a final score
21-13 21-16.
Malaysia's badminton players brought home two bronze medals from the
Paris Olympics 2024 in a dominant 21-11 21-11 win
Japan secured two bronze medals in badminton at the Paris Olympics 2024
Silver: Kunlavut VITIDSARN, HE Bing Jiao, LIANG Wei Keng, WANG Chang.
Broze: Lee Zii Jia, Gregoria Mariska TUNJUNG, Aaron CHIA, Yuta WATANABE.
Mechanics of Basketball
Each team will play the other three teams in its group and will earn two
points for a win, one point for a loss, and zero points for a loss by forfeit.
Winners
USA took home gold in both the men’s and women’s competitions at the
Paris Olympics by defeating a spirited French team.
Gold: USA
Silver: France
A team can score points by making field goals or free throws. A field goal
made inside the arc is worth one point, while a field goal made outside the
arc is worth two points and the game is played in a single period of up to 10
minutes.
Winner
Germany beat Spain 17-16 in the final and won a Gold medal and Spain
won a silver medal
Netherlands won the gold medal after defeating France 18–17 in the final.
France took home the silver medal after losing to the Netherlands in the
final.
Lithuania won the bronze medal after defeating Latvia 21–18. Lithuania's
victory was a
surprise, as Latvia was the top seed from the pool stage.
Gold: Germany
Silver: Spain
Bronze: USA
Each team has two players on the court at a time. Unlike indoor volleyball,
players are allowed to play in any position throughout the game. Rally point
scoring is used in every set. Each match consists of the the teams competing
for the best of three sets.
Winner
9. Boxing the art of attack and defense with the fists practiced as a sport.
Mechanics of boxing
Winner
Men and Women Final Podium
Mechanics of breaking
The duration of each set may vary but is generally between 30 to 60 seconds
per entry and competitors must showcase a combination of different
breaking elements, including footwork, powermoves, freezes, and toprock.
Winners of breaking
Japan’s win Gold medal match to become breaking’s first-ever Olympic gold
medalist.
Won the first-ever men’s breaking gold medal, taking down France’s
11. Canoe slalom A whitewater sport where competitors race through a series of gates
on a river course in a canoe or kayak as quickly as possible.
Winners
13 Cycling BMX freestyle is a type of extreme cycling that involves performing stunts
Athletes ride round a course with ramps, box jumps and walls and must showcase their
best tricks in two 60-second runs to qualify for the final.
Winner
Jose Torres Gil of Argentina won a thrilling gold medal in men's BMX freestyle with a
steller score of 94.82.
Kieran Reilly took silver with a final score 93.91,
Anthony Jeanjean won a bronze on 93.76 score.
Men and Women final Podium
Gold: Jose Torres Gil, Argentina
Silver: Kieran Reilly, Great Britain
Bronze: Anthony Jeanjean, France
14. Cycling bmx Racing It innvolves up to eight BMX cyclists competing on
a single-lap track with straights, jumps and turns.
Winners
Saya Sakakibara win a gold medal with a time of 34.23 seconds in the final.
As you pedal, your body is cycling through two phases — the power phase
and the recovery phase the power phase is when you push the pedal
downwards between the 12 o’clock and 6 o’clock positions where your body
generates force to move the bike fRichar
Winners
Ellesse Andrews (NZL): Won gold, her second medal of the games. Andrews
beat German world record holder Lea Friedrich 2-0 in the best-of-three final.
Lea Sophie Friedrich (GER): Won silver, setting the world record in her
qualifying lap.
Emma Finucane (GBR): Won bronze, beating Hetty van de Wouw of the Netherlands 2-
0. Finucane also won a bronze medal in the women’s Keirin and was part of the gold-
winning Great Britain team in the women’s team sprint.
Women and Men final Podium
Gold: Ellesse Andrews (NZL)
Silver: Lea Sophie Friedrich (GER)
Bronze: Emma Finucane (GBR)
18.Diving is a sport of plunging into water, usually head foremost,
performed with the addition of gymnastic and acrobatic stunts.
Mechanics of Diving
Winners
Mechanics of Equestrian
Riders and horses are timed as they jump over obstacles, with time penalties
imposed for each obstacle toppled.
Winner
Michael Jung won a gold breaking the record with a score just 0.3 points
behind the British rider.
Mechanics of fencing
Each time a fencer scores a touch, they receive a point. Points are received
by making a touch in the opponent’s target area. Direct elimination matches
in epee and foil consist of three three‐minute periods with a one‐minute
break between each.
Winners
Japan’s Koki Kano won the first-ever gold medal in an individual Olympic
fencingfencing with with a 45-36 win over the Italians.
The French team of Enzo Lefort, Maxime Pauty and Maximilien Chastanet
won a bronze-medal match against the United States.
Gold: Japan
Silver: Italy
Bronze: France
21. Football is a game played between two teams of eleven people, where
each team tries to win by kicking a ball into the other team’s goal.
Mechanics of football
Players score points in football by getting the ball across the goal line into
the end zone, either by throwing and catching the ball, running it in or
kicking it through the field goal posts for a field goal.
Winners
Spain won their second Olympic gold medal after beating France 5-3 in extra
time .
Gold: Spain
Silver: France
Bronze: Morocco
22.Golf is a game in which a player using special clubs attempts to sink a
ball with as few strokes as possible into each of the 9 or 18 successive holes
on a course.
Mechanics of Football
It encompass every aspect of the game, from how you grip the club to the
position of your feet and the rotation of your hips.
Winners
Men’s
Scottie Scheffler of the United States won the gold medal, Tommy Fleetwood
of Great Britain won the silver, and Hideki Matsuyama of Japan won the
bronze
Women’s
Lydia Ko of New Zealand won the gold medal, Esther Henseleit of Germany
won the silver, and Xiyu Lin of China won the bronze.
Mechanics of handball
Players can use their hands, head, torso, thighs, and knees to catch, throw,
stop, push, or hit the ball. They can’t touch the ball with their feet or
anything below the knee.
Winners
Germany won silver and this was Germany’s first Olympic medal in men’s
handball since 2016, when they finished third.
Men's Medalists
Gold: Denmark
Silver: Germany
Bronze: Spain
24.Hockey a game played on an ice rink by two teams of six players on
skates whose object is to drive a puck into the opponents’ goal with a hockey
stick.
Mechanics of hockey
Winners
Gold: Netherland
Silver: Germany
Bronze: India
25. Judo a sport developed from jujitsu that emphasizes the use of quick
movement and leverage to throw an opponent.
Mechanics of Judo
each fight is up to 4 minutes long opponents begin the fight with a bow. This
is fundamental to the principles of Judo the referee then signals the start of
play and the contest Begins the highest.
Winners
Women's 52kg
Diyora Keldiyorova (Uzbekistan) won gold, Distria Krasniqi (Kosovo)
won silver, and Amandine Buchard (France) and Larissa Pimenta
(Brazil) won bronze.
Men's 66kg
Hifumi Abe (Japan) won gold, Willian Lima (Brazil) won silver, Denis
Vieru (Maldova) won bronze, and Gusman Kyrgyzbayev (Kazakhstan)
won bronze
Mixed team judo
Japan won silver medal , Brazil won silver and South Korea at mixed team
judo.
Winners
Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands becoming the first athlete ever to
win two gold medals in the event. Moesha Johnson of Australia took silver
while Italy’s Ginevra Taddeucci secured her country’s first medal in this event
since 2016 with bronze.
Athletes must hit five targets from 10 meters out, going back and forth
between shooting and running.
Winners
Ahmed Elgendy (EGY) Won the gold medal with a world record score of 1,555
points and Sato Taishu (JPN) Won the silver medal with 1,542 points. Giorgio
Malan (ITA) Won the bronze medal with 1,536 points
Winners
Kaleyn the Bulgarian gymnast finished second with a score of 140.600. This
was her first individual medal since 1988.
Raphael the Italian gymnast finished third with a score of 136.300. This was
the first medal for Italy in the individual competition.
Mechanics of Rowing
Rowing involves propelling a boat using oars fixed to the vessel. It differs
from other disciplines in that rowers sit with their backs to the direction of
movement, therefore crossing the finish line backwards.
Winners
Single Sculls
Dutch rower Karolien Florijn powered to victory in the women's single sculls
Olympic final on Saturday in a time of 7:17.28, with Emma Twigg of New
Zealand picking up silver and Lithuania's Viktorija Senkute bronze.
Double Sculls
The New Zealand women’s double sculls duo, Lucy Spoors and Brooke
Francis, won gold and The Kiwis crossed the line in 6:50.45, just 0.24 seconds
in front of the second-place Romanian boat win a silver. Olympic champions
Simona Radis and Ancuta Bodnar. Great Britain finished third in 6:53.22 to
earn bronze.
Eight team
Great Britain won the gold medal in the men's eight final. Netherlands took
the silver medal, and the United States won bronze.
30.Rugby sevens is a fast-paced version of rugby union where each team
has seven players instead of the usual 15.
Sevens is played with 7 players on each side of the ball who compete for 14-
minutes (two 7
Winners
France won its first gold medal in the men's tournament, beating Fiji.
Fiji's captain Jerry Tuwai became the first person to win three Olympic rugby
medals, with two gold and one silver.
New Zealand won its second consecutive gold medal, beating Canada in the
gold medal match. New Zealand is the first country to win two gold medals in
women's rugby sevens.
The United States won its first rugby sevens medal, men or women's, with a
last-second try by Alex "Spiff" Sedrick to beat Australia.
31.Olympic sailing is a sport where boats race against each other in fleets,
using the wind to move across the water.
Mechanics of Sailing
Races are contested in a ‘fleet race’ format where all contestants in each of
the ten events race together on one course. In each fleet the competition is
split into the opening series and a medal race or medal series.
Men's events
Spain's Diego Botin and Florian Trittel dominated the final medal race in the
men's skiff sailing regatta to take Olympic gold with 70 points. New
Zealand's Isaac McHardie and William McKenzie won silver (82) with Team
USA's lan Barrows and Hans Henken taking bronze (88)
Women's events
Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz from the Netherlands clinched gold,
Vilma Bobeck and Rebecca Netzler from Sweden secured silver, and Sarah
Steyaert and Charline Picon from France took bronze.
Gold: Diego Botin, Florian Trittel (Spain) and Odile van Aanholt , Annette
Duetz (Netherlands)
Silver: Isaac McHardie , William McKenzie (New Zealand) and Vilma Bobeck ,
Rebecca Netzler (Sweden
Bronze: lan Barrows ,Hans Henken (USA) and Sarah Steyaert ,Charline Picon
(France)
32. Shooting is a type of video game where the player uses weapons to
shoot and eliminate enemies or other targets.
Mechanics of shooting
Winners
Men’s events
Shooter Nathan Hales has won men’s trap gold and China's Qi Ying claimed
silver with 44 out of 50 while Guatemala's Jean Pierre Brol Cardenas clinched
bronze
Women event
Francisca Crovetto Chadid won the event, which became the first ever gold
Olympic medal for Chile, Amber Jo Rutter,became the silver medalist, and
Jewell Smith won the bronze.
Gold: Nathan Hales, Great Britain and Francisca Crovetto Chadid, Chile
Silver: Qi Ying, People’s Republic of China and Amber Jo Rutter, Great Britain
Bronze: Jean Pierre Brol Cardenas, Guatemala and Austen Jewell Smith,
United States
33.Skatingboard a flat, narrow board with two small wheels under each
end, which a person stands on and moves forward by pushing one foot on
the ground.
Mechanics of Skateboarding
a skateboard, friction between the wheels and the ground provides traction,
allowing riders to push off, turn, and perform tricks.
Winners
Men’ Event
Yuto Horigome (JPN) Won gold with a score of 281.14 points, including a
97.08 on his final trick. Horigome became the first skateboarder to win two
Olympic gold medals.
Jagger Eaton (USA) Won silver with a score of 281.04 points. Eaton improved
on his bronze medal from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Nyjah Huston (USA) Won bronze with a score of 279.38 points. Huston's
medal was his first Olympic medal.
Women Event
Coco Yoshizawa Japan’s 14-year-old won gold with a bigspin flip frontside
boardslide that scored 96.49, the highest single trick score of the
competition.
Liz Akama Japan’s 15-year-old won silver with a second run score of 89.26
and a first best trick attempt of 92.62.
Rayssa Leal Brazil’s 16-year-old won bronze after struggling in the
elimination round but coming back to land a cleaner run in the final.
Men/Women Final Podium
Gold : Yuto Horigome (JPN) and Coco Yoshizawa (JPN)
Silver : Jagger Eaton (USA) and Liz Akama (JPN)
Bronze: Nyjah Huston (USA) and Rayssa Leal (BRA)
34.climbing is a style of rock climbing where climbers use devices that are
already attached to the rock, instead of bringing their own devices and
removing them after the climb.
Mechanics of Climbing
A climber and a belayer tie into one end of a single rope, with a few meters
of rope between them. As the climbers ascends the route, s/he clips into
carabiners spaced intermittently up the wall, each of which act as anchors to
protect the climber from falls
Winners
Men’s events
Toby Roberts was the first sport climber to win Olympic gold in the new
format for the men’s bouldering/lead combined final. Roberts scored 92.1
points on the lead wall and 155.2 points overall.
Anraku Sorato Japanese favorite fell in the lower part of the highest 10 holds
on the lead climb, earning him silver with 145.4 points.
Jakob Schubert the experienced Austrian lead climber earned bronze with
139.6 points. Schubert nearly topped the lead wall and shared first place in
the lead discipline with Czech climber Adam Ondra.
Women event
Janja Garnbret Won gold with a total score of 168.5, including a lead score of
84.1. Garnbret, a two-time Olympic champion.
Brooke Raboutou Won silver with a total score of 156.0, including a lead
score of 72.0. Raboutou became the first American woman to win an Olympic
medal in sport climbing
Jessica PilzWon bronze with a total score of 147.4, including a lead score of
88.1.
Men/Women final Podium
35.Surfing is the sport of riding on the top of a wave while standing or lying
on a special board.
Mechanics of Surfing
In Olympic surfing, competitors are judged based on their two best rides
within an allotted time period, usually 30 minutes. Each ride is scored out of
ten points, creating a possible heat total of twenty points. Achieving perfect
tens is exceptionally rare, and a perfect score of twenty is even rarer.
Winners
Men’s events
Vaast, a local from Teahupo'o, beat Robinson in the men's final with a score
of 17.67. Robinson's 7.83 came on the next wave, but he needed a 9.84 to
overtake Vaast and Gabriel Medina of Brazil won the bronze medal.
Women events
Marks’s win was a close one, with her final score of 10.5 while Brazil won the
silver medal and Johanne Defay of France won the bronze medal.
Men/ Women’s final Podium
36.Swimming is a sport where competitors use their arms and legs to move
through water, either in a team or individually.
Mechanics of Swimming
Winners
Women’s events
Men’s 100m freestyle: Pan Zhanle of China won gold, and Kyle Chalmers of
Australia won silver Men’s 200m freestyle: David Popovici of Romania won
gold, and Matthew Richards of Great Britain won silver
Women’s 100m freestyle: Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden won gold, Torri Huske
won silver, and Haughey won bronze Women’s 200m butterfly: Summer
McIntosh of Canada won gold
Women’s 1500m freestyle: Katie Ledecky won gold, Kirpichnikova won silver,
and Gose won bronze
The object is to hit the ball so that it goes over the net and bounces on the
opponent's half of the table in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it
or return it correctly.
Winners
Mens events
Truls Moregard journey to the final was one of the tournament's greatest
stories. He beat World number 1, Wang Chuqin and Fourth seed, Hugo
Calderano to end Sweden's 24 year medal drought.
Women’s events
Chen Meng’s win was a back-to-back gold medal, making her one of a se-
lect few players to win consecutive Olympic golds in table ten- nis. Sun
Yingsha was the world number one player at the time of the final. Hayata’s
bronze medal was a hard- fought victory after she injured her left wrist.
Mechanics of Taekwondo
Winners
Viviana Marton came out on top of the women's -67kg final to clinch Olympic
gold with a 2-0 victory over Serbia's Aleksandra Perisic .
Kristina Teachout defeated People’s Republic of China’s Song Jie in the first
bronze and Belgium's Sarah Chaari then came back from a 14-point deficit in
round one of the second bronze medal match.
Mechanics of Tennis
Tennis tournament will use a knockout format for singles and doubles,
featuring 64 players and 32 teams, respectively. Matches will be held on
outdoor clay courts, with best-of-three sets for most matches and best-of-five
for the singles finals.
Winners
Men’s single
Gold: Novak Djokovic, Serbia
Silver: Carlos Alcaraz, Spain
Bronze: Lorenzo Musetti, Italy
Women’s single
Gold: Zheng Qinwen, China
Silver: Donna Vekic, Croatia
Bronze: Iga Swiatek, Poland
Men’s double
Gold: Matt Ebden and John Peers, Australia
Silver: Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek, United States
Bronze: Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul, United States
Women’s double
Gold: Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini, Italy
Silver: Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider, Individual Neutral Athlete
Bronze: Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain
40. trampoline is a competitive sport where athletes perform acrobatic
moves while bouncing on a trampoline.
Mechanics of trampoline
When you jump on a trampoline, both the mat and springs stretch, absorbing
the energy of your impact. Upon landing, the springs and mat contract, using
the stored energy to push you back upwards.
Winners
61.890.
Yan Langyu in China won a bronze medal with a final score 60.950
Mechanics of triathlon