| Burkina Faso at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |
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| IOC code | BUR |
| NOC | Burkinabé National Olympic and Sports Committee |
| inParis, France 26 July 2024 (2024-07-26) – 11 August 2024 (2024-08-11) | |
| Competitors | 8 in 5 sports |
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| Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
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Burkina Faso is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer OlympicsinParis 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.
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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| Athletics | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Cycling | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Judo | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Swimming | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Taekwondo | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 5 | 3 | 8 |
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):[1]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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| Distance | Position | Distance | Position | ||
| Hugues Fabrice Zango | Men's triple jump | ||||
| Marthe Koala | Women's long jump | ||||
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.[2]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
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| Women's road race |
Burkina Faso qualified one judoka for the following weight class at the Games. Carmel Kone (men's 90 kg) qualified for the games through the allocations of universality places.[3]
| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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| Carmel Kone | Men's –90 kg | 0 |
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Burkina Faso sent two swimmers to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Souleymane Napare | Men's 100 m freestyle | ||||||
| Iman Kouraogo | Women's 50 m freestyle | ||||||
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 TournamentinDakar, Senegal.[4]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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| Ibrahim Maïga | Men's −68 kg | |||||||
| Faysal Sawadogo | Men's −80 kg | |||||||
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Burkina Faso first competed at the Summer Olympics in 1972 as the Republic of Upper Volta. | |||||
