🥇 Paris 2024 is the First Olympic Games to Achieve Gender Equality

What We’re Showing

This chart tracks the share of female and male athletes participating through the Summer Olympic Games over the years. Data is sourced from the International Olympic Committee, as of 2024.

Key Takeaways

• Paris 2024 will be the first Olympic Games in history (summer or winter) to have an equal share of male and female athletes
• This comes more than a century after women were first allowed to participate in the games (as it happens, in Paris, 1900)
• In the last two decades especially, the IOC has made a concerted effort to boost women’s participation
• This has been done by opening up the eligibility, setting quotas for National Olympic Committees to meet, and creating mixed-gender events