Athletes who will shine in Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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 Gaia Sabbatini (athletics, 1500m for now...who knows in 3 years time?)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ6qL1gBXb6/  

 

 Lorenzo Galossi (born 2006, swimming, 100m through 800m freestyle for now...who knows in 3 years time?)

OK...this is truly a long shot, but I really hope he's gonna be the next Paltrinieri (on slightly shorter distances)...

[rafalgorka 1,821]

Aleksandra Mirosław in sports climbing - women's speed event.

In Tokyo she was 4th in combined event but she had WR in speed, wasn't able to perform well in boulder and lead though.

In Paris speed will be a seperate event so she is the biggest favourite for gold now.

But a lot of can happen during these 3 years obviously and she will have strong opponents within Polish team as well. Polish girls are very strong in this event.

 

[thepharoah 2,413]

 Youssef Ramadan ( Swimming ) 

 Mohamed Hamza ( Fencing ) 

 Mohamed El Sayed ( Fencing ) 

 

[OlympicsFan 860]

23 hours ago, pdr4332 said:

Good point, I agree on the names mentioned, definitely Mihalyvari Farkas is one to watch

I made a list of U20 athletes who could win a medal in Paris and didn’t win an individual medal in Tokyo already. I know that at least one Hungarian athlete definitely made it in sports other than swimming (in taekwondo) and some others (in judo, Mountainbike, fencing) narrowly missed the age limit, so good perspectives for Hungary. In swimming Mihalyvari-Farkas, Kos and a girl in the 200 free made it, not sure if I should also include Bettina Fabian and Szombori (not sure if he was born in 2001 or 2002). I will post the full list tonight. Something I also noticed is that there are basically no U20 athletes anywhere close to world class in some sports (probably most notably canoeing sprint/rowing/triathlon ... I think except for two Cuban girls in canoeing sprint if I remember correctly) which could be interesting for funding. In fighting sports and trap/skeet shooting you also barely find U20 athletes who are anywhere close to world class, if I remember correctly In boxing for example I only found two girls born in 2001 (from GB/India -> maybe I will use U23 instead of U20 for those sports instead). In Germany for example there often isn’t enough patience, which leads to those athletes losing their funding before they can become world class. It also makes me think that from a monetary point of view it might make more sense to find swimmers for example, because they can win medals for a longer period of time (since they usually become world class earlier).

 

Edit: I think I will use U23 in athletics/fighting sports/triathlon/rowing/canoeing and a couple of other sports, so I will have to adapt my list.

[dodge 1,041]

I think under 23 is definitely a better barometer for ‘strength’ sports. It’s tough too using the Olympics as some countries will have much deeper strength in depth seeing their best under 23s nowhere near the Games. They may still be stronger than some who qualified with other countries.

 

Looking forward to seeing your list though as it’s an interesting area

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If she doesn't smoke weed in the lead up to the Olympics again, then Sha'Carri Richardson should be the next star to shine for the US at Paris 2024. 

[OlympicsFan 860]

On 8/10/2021 at 1:27 PM, OlympicsFan said:

I made a list of U20 athletes who could win a medal in Paris and didn’t win an individual medal in Tokyo already. I know that at least one Hungarian athlete definitely made it in sports other than swimming (in taekwondo) and some others (in judo, Mountainbike, fencing) narrowly missed the age limit, so good perspectives for Hungary. In swimming Mihalyvari-Farkas, Kos and a girl in the 200 free made it, not sure if I should also include Bettina Fabian and Szombori (not sure if he was born in 2001 or 2002). I will post the full list tonight. Something I also noticed is that there are basically no U20 athletes anywhere close to world class in some sports (probably most notably canoeing sprint/rowing/triathlon ... I think except for two Cuban girls in canoeing sprint if I remember correctly) which could be interesting for funding. In fighting sports and trap/skeet shooting you also barely find U20 athletes who are anywhere close to world class, if I remember correctly In boxing for example I only found two girls born in 2001 (from GB/India -> maybe I will use U23 instead of U20 for those sports instead). In Germany for example there often isn’t enough patience, which leads to those athletes losing their funding before they can become world class. It also makes me think that from a monetary point of view it might make more sense to find swimmers for example, because they can win medals for a longer period of time (since they usually become world class earlier).

 

Edit: I think I will use U23 in athletics/fighting sports/triathlon/rowing/canoeing and a couple of other sports, so I will have to adapt my list.

I came up with a very long list, so i trimmed it down to only 100 athletes. I focused on U23 athletes in most sports (U20 in artistic gymnastics/swimming) who didn't win an individual medal in Tokyo and in my opinion have a good chance to win at least one in Paris. I also made a top 10 list for french athletes who didn't make the top 100. Here are the lists:

 

Top 100:

Oleksiy Sereda (Ukraine, diving)

Rikuto Tamai (Japan, diving)

Jacob Whittle (GB, swimming)

David Popovici (Romania, swimming)

Hwang Sun-woo (South Korea, swimming)

Hubert Kos (Hungary, swimming)

Ilya Borodin (Russia, swimming)

Summer McIntosh (Canada, swimming)

Isabel Gose (Germany, swimming)

Leon Marchand (France, swimming)

Destin Lasco (USA, swimming)

Katie Grimes (USA, swimming)

Wang Jianjiahe (China, swimming)

Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas (Hungary, swimming)

Anastasia Gorbenko (Israel, swimming)

Evgeniia Chikunova (Russia, swimming)

Torri Huske (USA, swimming)

Claire Curzan (USA, swimming)

Benedetta Pilato (Italy, swimming)

Andrey Minakov (Russia, swimming)

Joshua Liendo (Canada, swimming)

Antonio Djakovic (Switzerland, swimming)

Samuel Short (Australia, swimming)

Meg Harris (Australia, swimming)

Mollie O'Callaghan (Australia, swimming)

Bella Sims (USA, swimming)

David Bethlem (Hungary, open water swimming)

Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (Russia, open water swimming)

Hikaru Mori (Japan, trampoline)

Erriyon Knighton (USA, athletics)

Krzysztof Roznicki (Poland, athletics)

Sasha Zhoya (France, athletics)

Sean Burrell (USA, athletics)

Mykolas Alekna (Lithuania, athletics)

Sha'Carri Richardson (USA, athletics)

Winfred Mutile Yavi (Bahrain, athletics)

Britany Anderson (Jamaica, athletics)

Cyrena Samba-Mayela (France, athletics)

Cole Hocker (USA, athletics)

Oscar Chelimo (Uganada, athletics)

JuVaughn Harrison (USA, athletics)

Kristjan Ceh (Slovenia, athletics)

Mykhaylo Kokhan (Ukraine, athletics)

Brianna Williams (Jamaica, athletics)

Matvei Volkov (Belarus, athletics)

Mekides Abebe (Ethiopia, athletics)

Henriette Jaeger (Norway, athletics)

Prisca Chepsang (Uganada, athletics)

Kim Je-deok (South Korea, archery)

Tang Chih-chun (Taiwan, archery)

An Se-young (South Korea, badminton)

Jessica Guo (Canada, fencing)

Aizanat Murtazaeva (Russia, fencing)

Federica Isola (Italy, fencing)

Yuka Ueno (Japan, fencing)

Liza Pusztai (Hungary, fencing)

Mohamed El-Sayed (Egypt, fencing)

Kirill Bordachev (Russia, fencing)

Remco Evenepoel (Belgium, cycling road)

Lea Sophie Friedrich (Germany, cycling track)

Kata Blanka Vas (Hungary, mountainbike)

Saya Sakakibara (Australia, BMX)
Evy Leibfahrt (USA, canoeing slalom)

Nicolas Gestin (France, canoeing slalom)

Jacob Schopf (Germany, canoeing sprint)

Moritz Adam (Germany, canoeing sprint)

Joan Morena (Spain, canoeing sprint)

Alexandra Förster (Germany, rowing)

Gennaro di Mauro (Italy, rowing)

Althea Laurin (France, taekwondo)

Omar Salim (Hungary, taekwondo)

Takeru Kitazono (Japan, artistic gymnastics)

Illia Kovtun (Ukrain, artistic gymnastics)

Yang Haonan (China, artistic gymnastics)

Kayla DiCello (USA, artistic gymnastics)

Ryu Sung-hyun (South Korea, artistic gymnastics)

Viktoria Listunova (Russia, artistic gymnastics)

Vladislava Urazova (Russia, artistic gymnastics)

Sofi Özbas (Hungary, judo)

Romane Dicko (France, judo)

Wakana Koga (Japan, judo)

Manuel Lombardo (Italy, judo)

Tato Grigalashvili (Georgia, judo)

Lasha Bekauri (Georgia, judo)

Tomokazu Harimoto (Japan, table tennis)

Lin Yun-ju (Taiwan, table tennis)

Saurabh Chaudhary (India, shooting)

Mary Tucker (USA, shooting)

Sofia Ceccarello (Italy, shooting)

Oceanne Muller (France, shooting)

Jeanette Hegg Duestad (Norway, shooting)

Deepak Punia (India, wrestling)

Amir Hossein Zare (Iran, wrestling)

Turan Bayramov (Azerbaijan, wrestling)

Sergey Kozyrev (Russia, wrestling)

Khanum Velieva (Russia, wrestling)

Anshu Malik (India, shooting)

Keno Machado (Brazil, boxing)

Caroline Dubois (GB, boxing)

Dainier Pero (Cuba, boxing)

 

Top 10 for France (only those who didn't make the top 100):

Ryan Helal (track cycling)

Mathilde Gros (track cycling)

Loane Lecomte (track cycling)

Alija Luty (fencing)

Christo Popov (badminton)

Lisa Barbelin (archery)

Shirine Boukli (judo)

Justine Delmas (swimming)

Jeff Erius (athletics)

Rose Loga (athletics)

 

 

Note: Obviously a lot of the names that didn't make the list very well could have made it and considering the number of sports i covered, it is very likely that i missed some names. In athletics and swimming especially there are tons of athletes who could have made the list as well (for example Franko Grgic, Yang Yunxuan, Merve Tuncel, Adriana Vilagos, Tara Davis or Jorinde van Klinken).

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Other interesting threads might be "Athletes who could write history in Paris" (for example Zaynab Dayibekova from Uzbekistan in fencing (has Uzbekistan ever won a fencing medal?) or Nicholas D'Amour from the Virgin Islands in archery) or "Which athletes are the most likely to defend their title in 2024?".

[De_Gambassi 1,369]

2 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

I came up with a very long list, so i trimmed it down to only 100 athletes.

 

Great insight, thanks. If you have the full list somewhere, I'll be very interested

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In addition to those I already mentioned (Ntouskos, Tentoglou, Tzengko), I'd like to add a few others for 

 

Georgios Pilidis (wrestling) - He qualified for Tokyo which was impressive considering he's only 21. Since then he also won gold at the World U23 Championships (he had won a lot of medals at major events for his age group but this was his biggest achievement so far). 2021 was a great year for him despite having injury problems as well. Financially he lacks support so he is taking a break now to compete on Greece's Survivor (they offer big prize money plus it is a way to become famous and attract sponsors). I haven't watched any episodes yet (I think there were only one or two so far) but everyone is suddenly taking an interest in him and people who never heard of him are all saying he is the big favourite to win it all. I think it says a lot about how much he wants to make a big career in wrestling that he's willing to go to Survivor to acquire the money to support his career. He is clearly ambitious and has already done very well so I don't see why he can't achieve great things. I just hope competing on Survivor and missing a few months of training won't have such a negative impact on him (though his injury problems didn't stop him in 2021 either despite not being able to properly train at times).

 

Apostolos Papastamos (swimming) - He had some injury problems in 2021 also, so he didn't do well in Tokyo but I think he can do much better in 2024. Let's not forget he won gold in the 400 medley at the 2019 World Juniors and European Juniors, also won gold in the 200 medley at the European Juniors and bronze at the World Juniors. In the 400 medley he broke our NR in 2019 as an 18 year old and also broke the world junior record (I'm not sure if he still has it or not).

 

Anastasia Dragomirova (athletics - heptathlon) - Due to injury problems she was only competing in shot put in 2021, but she is planning to return to the heptathlon next year. She's never competed in a senior heptathlon yet, but some of her PBs are really impressive. 15.69 in shot put (this year, as an 18 year old), 45.76 javelin (last year, as a 17 year old), 1.78 high jump (last year, as a 17 year old), 6.44 long jump (in 2019, as a 16 year old). With those PBs, she would've been 1st in the shot put in Tokyo, 4th in the long jump and 10th in the javelin. She's still so young and can build on these, but her results in track events aren't that impressive although she hasn't competed a lot so it's tough to judge so far.