More than 1,800 athletes, with an equal split between men and women, competed across forty-eight medal events (twenty-five in track, five in the road: marathon and racewalking, sixteen in the field, and two in combined) at the Games.
[2] Similar to the 2020 edition, the qualification system for Paris 2024 was set on a dual pathway, where the initial half of the total quota (about fifty percent) was distributed to the athletes through the entry standards approved by the World Athletics council, with the remainder relying on the world ranking list within the qualifying period.
[2] For the marathon races, any runner ranked higher than the sixty-fifth-place athlete on the filtered Quota Place "Road to Paris" list on 30 January 2024 was deemed for immediate selection to his or her respective national team at the Games.
Beyond the deadline, the remaining twenty percent of the total quota was determined by the same dual pathway qualification criteria outlined above without displacing any qualified athletes on the set date.
Sweden only enters athletes sufficient to reach at least the twelfth position, based on the assessment evaluated by the NOC.
For the second consecutive time, World Athletics published the qualification tracking tool Road to Paris on the statistics zone of the sport governing body's official website in the last quarter of 2023.