Athletics Prediction Contests (34th edition)
For the 33rd Olympic Games
Paris Thursday 1 - 11 August 2024
Contest 1: Predict all the medal winners.
Contest 2: Predict the 20 biggest favorites.
As usual no entrance fee and the traditional money prizes.
Entrance to the contests and mutations to your predictions is not longer possible.Tips
Looking upfront into the events on chosen athletes and the links to the details gives even more fun.
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The spirit of this game is to play with an open mind.
Winner of the 2024 Top3 Contest with 305 participants is Keith Odoyo from Kenya.
Second David Hippsley from Ireland and third Philip Wyckoff from the United States.
Winner of the 2024 Pick20 Contest with 264 participants is James McCartney from Great Britain
Second Mikael Wallen from Sweden and third Marco Nicholas Bieri from Singapore.
Congratulations everyone. Eternal fame for Keith and James. For Keith this was his 2nd participation.David and Philip both their 11th, with their best respectively 7th and 17th.
With a debut last year at position 32. Keith passed David on the very last part - the women's marathon.
They had both predicted almost the same surprising podium (Obiri-Lokeda-Hassan vs Jepchirchir, with
Kenyan Keith his pick for bronze for Hassan ultimately being decisive).
David was the leader from event 16 till 47!
For James this was his debut! Mikael his 13th and Marco Nicholas also his debut!
Truly worldwide winners in 2024 from all continents.
All time rankings
The All time Top3 and Pick20 rankings (default based on Average Percent Rank) to be updated soon.
are lead by: Santi Velasco and Joaquãn Carmona Torre (unbridgeable lead).
Pat Crandall passed away mid november 2023
Pat was a huge fan and supporter of athletics and this contest. He participated 19 times and you
can only conclude that he was extremely good, 9 times top 10! He was also one of the very first
overseas participants to find the first downloadable DOS floppy-based version online in 1999.
With more than 70.000 messages on the Track and Field news message board and a large number about
this competition, he was also a promoter. Very sad that his 2023 7th place turned out to be his farewell.
Hope to see you participating next year with the World Championships in Tokyo.
Ronald vW
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| prediction | g | s | b |
| g | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| s | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| b | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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