Burkina Faso at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Burkina Faso is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Although the nation made its official debut in Munich 1972 under the name Upper Volta, Burkinabé athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympics from 1988 onwards.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Athletics

Burkinabé track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):

Field events

Cycling

Road

Burkina Faso entered one rider to compete in the women's road race by finishing in the top two at the 2023 African Championships in Accra, Ghana.

Taekwondo

Burkina Faso qualified two athlete to compete at the games. Tokyo 2020 Olympian Faysal Sawadogo and Ibrahim Maïga, qualified for Paris 2024 following the triumph of their victory in the semifinal results, in their respective division, at the 2024 African Qualification Tournament in Dakar, Senegal.

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