In what was widely seen as a "poor representation", Namibia only sent four athletes to the 2024 Games and won no medals.

A former Athletics Namibia (AN) president blamed the country's bad performance on a lack of proper preparation, opining that athletics in Namibia "is kind of a hobby" due to a lack of sports development programmes.

Namibian track and field athletes qualified for Paris 2024, by receiving the direct universality spots in the following event:[2] Namibia entered one female cyclist to compete in the road race events at the Olympic, through the establishment of UCI Nation Ranking.

[3] Namibian mountain bikers secured one male quota place for the Olympic through the 2023 African Championships in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Namibian swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OST) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):[4]