Adidas France Pro Elite 2024/2025 Running Cap

Sixteen, One, Two

France began this kit cycle by having the best week of its recent history. At the European Championships in Rome, between 7 and 12 June 2024, a team of 104 athletes won sixteen medals — four gold, five silver, seven bronze — and finished second in the table behind Italy, which had the run of a home crowd and 24 medals.

The golds came in a rush: Cyréna Samba-Mayela in the 100 metres hurdles on the 8th; Alice Finot in the 3000 metres steeplechase and Gabriel Tual in the 800 on the 9th; Alexis Miellet in the men's steeplechase on the 10th, with Djilali Bedrani second in the same race. Add Auriana Lazraq-Khlass in the heptathlon, Louise Maraval over the 400 hurdles, Yann Schrub in the 10,000, the women's 4×100 relay, and seven bronzes spread from the triple jump to the hammer to the 1500. That is a squad, not a star.

Rome 2024

16 medals (4-5-7) — second in the table, 104 athletes

Paris 2024

One athletics medal at the home Games — Samba-Mayela, silver, 12.34

The margin

0.01 — Masai Russell won in 12.33, on the last day of track

The record with no medal

Finot 8:58.67, European record, fourth — first European woman under 9:00; still stands