Ivory Coast at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics except Moscow 1980, as well as nation's joining the American led-boycott.

Ivory Coast at the 2024 Summer Olympics
IOC code	CIV
NOC	Comité National Olympique de Côte d'Ivoire
in Paris, France 26 July 2024 (2024-07-26) – 11 August 2024 (2024-08-11)
Competitors	12 (4 men and 8 women) in 4 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Cheick Sallah Cissé & Maboundou Koné[1]
Flag bearer (closing)	Arthur Cissé & Maboundou Koné
Medals Ranked 84th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024

Medalists

Further information: 2024 Summer Olympics medal table and List of 2024 Summer Olympics medal winners

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Cheick Sallah Cissé	Taekwondo	Men's +80 kg	10 August

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Taekwondo	0	0	1	1
Total	0	0	1	1

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Female	0	0	0	0
Male	0	0	1	1
Mixed	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	1	1

Medals by date
Date				Total
10 August	0	0	1	1
Total	0	0	1	1

Competitors

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

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	2	4	6
Fencing	1	1	2
Judo	0	1	1
Taekwondo	1	2	3
Total	4	8	12

Athletics

Main articles: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Ivorian 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):^[2][3]

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Arthur Cissé	Men's 100 m	10.31	5	—		Did not advance
Cheickna Traore	Men's 200 m	20.54	6 R	DNS		Did not advance
Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Women's 100 m	10.81	1 Q	—		11.01	2 Q	13.84	8
	Women's 200 m	DNS		Did not advance
Maboundou Koné	Women's 100 m	11.17	4	—		Did not advance
	Women's 200 m	22.87 SB	4 R	22.89	1 Q	22.65 SB	5	Did not advance
Jessika Gbai	Women's 200 m	22.61	2 Q	—		22.36 PB	3 q	22.70	8
Murielle Ahouré-Demps Jessika Gbai Maboundou Koné Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Women's 4 × 100 m relay	DQ		—				Did not advance

Fencing

Main articles: Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Ivory Coast entered two fencers into the Olympic competition. Maxine Esteban secured qualified in the women's sabre event, as the highest ranked individual fencer in the African zone through the release of the FIE Official rankings; meanwhile Jérémy Keryhuel qualified for the games, following the triumph of winning the men's foil event, at the 2024 African Zonal Qualifying Tournament in Algiers, Algeria.^[4] This marked the nation's return to the sport for the first time since 2016.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Jérémy Keryhuel	Men's foil	Massialas (USA) L 3–15	Did not advance
Maxine Esteban	Women's foil	Ranvier (FRA) L 7–15	Did not advance

Judo

Main articles: Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Ivory Coast qualified one judoka for the following weight class at the Games. Zouleiha Dabonne (women's lightweight, 57 kg) got qualified via continental quota based on Olympic point rankings.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Zouleiha Dabonne	Women's −57 kg	Aminova (UZB) L 00–10	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Main articles: Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Ivory Coast qualified three athletes to compete at the games. Rio 2016 gold medalist, Cheick Sallah Cissé and Ruth Gbagbi qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of finishing within the top five in the Olympic rankings in their respective division, meanwhile Astan Bathily qualified for the games by virtue of the victory results in the semifinal round, at the 2024 African Qualification Tournament in Dakar, Senegal.^[5]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Cheick Sallah Cissé	Men's +80 kg	Mehdipournejad (EOR) W 6–1, 13–1	Healy (USA) W 4–2, 1–0	Cunningham (GBR) L 6–11, 7–5, 5–5	Bye	Sansores (MEX) W 5–4, 5–6, 5–3
Ruth Gbagbi	Women's −67 kg	Marton (HUN) L 3–6, 6–0, 2–3	Did not advance		Teachout (USA) L 3–0, 5–8, 3–9	Did not advance
Astan Bathily	Women's +67 kg	Osipova (UZB) L 0–4, 7–2, 0–0	Did not advance		McGowan (GBR) L 0–1, 0–2	Did not advance