Somalia at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Somalia received one wild card for a middle-distance runner to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics,^[11] and Ali Idow Hassan was selected by the Somali Olympic Committee. Hassan was 26 years old at the time of the Paris Games.^[12] He was competing in his second Olympic Games after the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[12][13][14] Before the competition, Hassan told the media that he was happy for representing the country but sad when he was alone, being the only representative from his nation.^[15] The Somali Olympic Committee was criticized for excluding Abdullahi Jama Mahamed, who had secured Somalia's first global athletics medal in over 35 years with a silver in the 5000 metres at the 2023 African Games.^[16][17]

On 7 August, Hassan participated in the first round heats of the men's 800 metres in Stade de France. Drawn to the second heat, Hassan finished the race in a time of 1 minute and 48.72 seconds, placed eighth out of nine runners in his heat. As only the first three runners in each heat advanced to the semi-finals, Hassan was placed into the repechage. On 8 August, Hassan was assigned to third heat of the repechage. He did not start (DNS) the repechage, and was therefore eliminated.^[10] Eventually, the gold was won by Emmanuel Wanyonyi from Kenya, silver by Marco Arop from Canada, and bronze by Djamel Sedjati from Algeria.^[10][18]

Track events

• Somalia at the 2023 African Games