France sent a team of 323 athletes to the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
.
Medalists
Archery
France will send archers to the Olympics for the twelfth time. France qualified a full team of three women by placing eighth in the women's team event at the
2007 World Outdoor Target Championships.
[FITA Olympic Qualification - Women]
/ref> The nation had no men qualify at the world tournament, but Romain Girouelle earned the nation one spot in the men's individual competition at the European qualifying tournament.
Athletics
The French athletics team, composed of 52 athletes, including 18 relay competitors, for 2008 Summer Olympics
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was announced on the July 28, 2008, following the French National Championships held in Albi. Frank Chevallier, the national technical director, believes that France has a better chance of winning two to four athletic medals.
;MenDecathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in Athletics (sport), athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek language, Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ...
;WomenHeptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...
* The athlete who finished in second place, Lyudmila Blonska
Lyudmyla Leonidivna Blonska, née Shevchuk ( uk, Людмила Леонідівна Блонська (Шевчук)), sometimes known as Lyudmila Blonskaya, (born November 9, 1977) is a Ukrainian former heptathlete, pentathlete, and long jumper. ...
of the Ukraine
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, tested positive for a banned substance. Both the A and the B tests were positive, therefore Blonska was stripped of her silver medal, and both French heptathletes moved up a position.
Badminton
France is being represented by two athletes.
Boxing
France qualified nine boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. Oubaali, Vastine, and M'Bumba qualified at the 2007 World Championships.[World Boxing Championships Chicago 2007]
Djelkhir became the fourth French qualifier at the first European qualifying tournament.[2nd AIBA European Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament]
Canoeing
Slalom
Sprint
;Men
;Women
Qualification Legend: QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = Qualify directly to final
Cycling
Road
;Men
;Women
Track
;Sprint
;Pursuit
;Keirin
;Omnium
Mountain biking
BMX
Diving
;Women
Equestrian
Dressage
Eventing
* Nicolas Touzaint, a 2004 team gold medallist, had to withdraw just before the start of the competition because of an injury to his horse. His score was automatically set to 1000.00 for team purposes. When Jean Renaud Adde was later eliminated from the competition for falling off his horse on the cross-country course, the same happened to him, causing an astronomical team score for the cross-country ride.
Fencing
;Men
;Women
Gymnastics
Artistic
;Men
;Team
;Individual finals
Marks and ranks from vault qualification differ as two vaults are used to determine event finalists while only the first of those counts toward the all-around total. Thomas Bouhail qualified for the all-around final of the top 24 gymnasts because the number of finalists from the same nation is limited to two. Thus, three gymnasts ranked ahead of him were ineligible.
;Women
;Team
;Individual finals
Trampoline
Handball
Men's tournament
;Roster
;Group play
;Quarterfinal
;Semifinal
;Gold medal game
;Final rank
Women's tournament
;Roster
;Group play
;Quarterfinal
;Classification semifinal
;5th–6th place
Judo
;Men
;Women
Modern pentathlon
Rowing
;Men
;Women
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
Sailing
;Men
;Women
;Open
M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled
Shooting
;Men
;Women
Swimming
France sent a total of 35 swimmers to these Games, including Alain Bernard
Alain Bernard (; born 1 May 1983) is a former French swimmer from Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône.
Bernard won a total of four medals (two golds, one silver, and one bronze) at two Olympic Games (2008 and 2012). He also won numerous medals at the W ...
and Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou (; born 9 October 1986) is a retired French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She has held the world record in freestyle events between 200 and 1500 meter. She is the daughter of a French father and a Dutch mother, and s ...
.Laure Manaudou
n°27 on Time
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's list of "100 Olympic Athletes To Watch"
;Men
;Women
Synchronized swimming
France will have two entrants in synchronized swimming, competing in the duet event.
Table tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
;Men
;Women
Triathlon
Weightlifting
Wrestling
;Men's freestyle
;Men's Greco-Roman
*
Ara Abrahamian
Ara Abrahamian ( hy , Արա Աբրահամյան; born 27 July 1975) is an Armenian-Swedish wrestler in Greco-Roman wrestling. He has won two World Championships in the 76 kg and 84 kg weight classes and a silver medal at the 2004 S ...
of Sweden, who beat
Melonin Noumonvi for bronze in the 84 kg class, was stripped of his medal for violating the spirit of fair play. However, the medal was not handed to Noumonvi or any other wrestler.
*
Yannick Szczepaniak originally finished fifth, but in November 2016, he was promoted to bronze due to disqualification of
Khasan Baroev.
;Women's freestyle
See also
*
France at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
France sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. France sent 119 athletes, who competed in 13 sports: Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, archery, Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, athletics, Cycling at the ...
References
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Nations at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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Summer Olympics
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