Athletes who made their mark in Games (via L'Équipe)
Leon Marchand is all alone up there. His four individual gold medals (200 m butterfly, 200 m breaststroke, 200 m and 400 m medley) make the swimmer the most successful athlete of the Paris Games.
Gymnasts Shinnosuke Oka and Simone Biles also made history, winning three gold medals each, including one in the team event with Japan and the USA respectively.
Ledecky will leave the Paris Games with gold medals in the women's 800-meter freestyle and 1,500-meter freestyle, which increased her career haul to nine Olympic golds. This allowed her to join gymnast Larissa Latynina at the top of the women's record books with nine Olympic gold medals.
Three gold medals in a row, eight years at the highest level. Nafissatou Thiam (heptathlon), Ryan Crouser (shot put) and Faith Kipyegon (1,500 m) have achieved the feat of winning a title in the same individual athletics event over three consecutive editions of the Games, from Rio 2016 to Paris 2024.
Cuba's Lopez (42 on August 20), became Olympic wrestling champion (- 130 kg) for the fifth time in a row in Paris, sixteen years after his first title in Beijing (2008).
Duplantis, the Louisiana-born 24-year-old who competes for his mother's native Sweden, cleared 6.25 meters (20 feet, 6 inches) to break the world record for the ninth time but the first time on his sport's grandest stage.
Arshad Nadeem sent his javelin to 92.97 m, setting a new Olympic record and giving Pakistan the first Olympic gold medal in its history.
Tebogo did the same for Botswana, winning the 200 m right under the Americans' noses.
Julien Alfred, the new 100 m queen, scripted history for Saint Lucia. (Images via AP, AFP and Reuters)