France at the Olympics Medals by Day, 1992 to Paris 2024

Key points from the chart

The chart plots France’s running medal total, day by day, at each Summer Olympics from Barcelona 1992 to Paris 2024.
Paris 2024, the solid orange line, is well above every earlier Games from the first days and reaches about 57 medals by day 13, where the line stops.
The eight earlier Games, drawn as dotted lines, finish between roughly 30 and 43 medals by day 16.
Rio 2016 starts slowest, with about one medal after three days, then climbs to the top of the earlier group.

All points are read from the graphic, which prints no values or source. The final totals below are from Wikipedia’s record of France’s Olympic results.

France at the Olympics medals since 1992, the chart in text

Title: Evolution of the number of French medals during the summer Olympics since 1992. Y axis: Medals count, 0 to 60. X axis: Day, 1 to 16. Legend: Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024. Paris 2024 is a solid orange line; the others are glowing dotted lines. Faded Olympic rings sit top left and a French flag bottom right. There is no source line or credit on the image.

The chart shows cumulative totals only. The table gives France’s final medal count at each of the nine Games, which is where each line ends.

Games (legend label)	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Medal table rank
Barcelona 1992	8	5	16	29	9
Atlanta 1996	15	7	15	37	5
Sydney 2000	13	14	11	38	6
Athens 2004	11	9	13	33	7
Beijing 2008	7	16	20	43	10
London 2012	11	11	13	35	7
Rio 2016	10	18	14	42	7
Tokyo 2020	10	12	11	33	8
Paris 2024	16	26	22	64	5

Medal counts and ranks from Wikipedia’s France at the Olympics medal table [2]; totals are our addition.

How Paris 2024 compares

As host nation, France won 64 medals at Paris 2024, including 16 gold, and finished fifth in the medal table, its first top five finish since 1996 [3]. The Games ran from 26 July to 11 August 2024 [2]. The chart’s Paris line stops at about 57 medals on day 13, so it was made before the Games ended; France added roughly seven more medals in the final days (our arithmetic from the final total).

The 64 medals were 21 more than France’s best total in the eight earlier Games on the chart, 43 at Beijing 2008 (our arithmetic [2]). Paris 2024 also had the most French competitors of the nine Games, 573 against 401 at Rio 2016, the next largest team [2]. In the Reddit thread under the chart, commenters pointed out that host nations qualify automatically for many events and often receive extra funding in the years before a home Games [1].

France as an Olympic host

France has hosted the Olympic Games six times: the Summer Games in Paris in 1900, 1924 and 2024, and the Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924, Grenoble in 1968 and Albertville in 1992 [4]. It is due to host a seventh, the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps [2]. Through Paris 2024, French athletes had won 815 medals at the Summer Games [2].

Notes on this infographic

The chart prints no values, no source and no creator. Values on this page are read from the lines (approximate) or taken from Wikipedia (final totals).
The Paris 2024 line ends at day 13 with about 57 medals. The final total was 64 [3].
Our reading of the day 16 endpoints matches the final totals in the table to within about one medal, for example about 29 for Barcelona 1992 against an actual 29.
The number of events differs between Games, so totals are not strictly like for like. Paris 2024 had 329 events [2].

Questions about France at the Olympics

How many times has France hosted the Olympics?

Six times: Paris in 1900, 1924 and 2024, Chamonix in 1924, Grenoble in 1968 and Albertville in 1992 [4]. The 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps will be the seventh [2].