France at the 2008 Summer Olympics

France sent a team of 323 athletes to the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Archery
France will send archers to the Olympics for the twelfth time. France qualified a full team of three women by placing eighth in the women's team event at the 2007 World Outdoor Target Championships. The nation had no men qualify at the world tournament, but Romain Girouelle earned the nation one spot in the men's individual competition at the European qualifying tournament.


 * Men


 * Women

Athletics
The French athletics team, composed of 52 athletes, including 18 relay competitors, for 2008 Summer Olympics was announced on the July 28, 2008, following the French National Championships held in Albi. Frank Chevallier, the national technical director, believes that France has a better chance of winning two to four athletic medals.


 * 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


 * Men
 * Track & road events


 * Field events


 * Combined events – Decathlon


 * Women
 * Track & road events


 * Field events

* The athlete who finished in second place, Lyudmila Blonska of the Ukraine, tested positive for a banned substance. Both the A and the B tests were positive, therefore Blonska was stripped of her silver medal, and both French heptathletes moved up a position.
 * Combined events – Heptathlon

Badminton
France is being represented by two athletes.

Boxing
France qualified nine boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. Oubaali, Vastine, and M'Bumba qualified at the 2007 World Championships. Djelkhir became the fourth French qualifier at the first European qualifying tournament. Thomas, Hallab, Sow, and Chiguer joined the French Olympic team by qualifying at the 2nd continental qualifier.

Sprint

 * Men

Qualification Legend: QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = Qualify directly to final
 * Women

Road

 * Men


 * Women

Track

 * Sprint


 * Pursuit


 * Keirin


 * Omnium

Diving

 * Women

Eventing
* Nicolas Touzaint, a 2004 team gold medallist, had to withdraw just before the start of the competition because of an injury to his horse. His score was automatically set to 1000.00 for team purposes. When Jean Renaud Adde was later eliminated from the competition for falling off his horse on the cross-country course, the same happened to him, causing an astronomical team score for the cross-country ride.

Fencing

 * Men


 * Women

Artistic

 * Men
 * Team

Marks and ranks from vault qualification differ as two vaults are used to determine event finalists while only the first of those counts toward the all-around total. Thomas Bouhail qualified for the all-around final of the top 24 gymnasts because the number of finalists from the same nation is limited to two. Thus, three gymnasts ranked ahead of him were ineligible.
 * Individual finals


 * Women
 * Team


 * Individual finals

Men's tournament

 * Roster


 * Group play


 * Quarterfinal


 * Semifinal


 * Gold medal game


 * Final rank

Women's tournament

 * Roster


 * Group play


 * Quarterfinal


 * Classification semifinal


 * 5th–6th place

Judo

 * Men


 * Women

Rowing

 * Men

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
 * Women

Sailing

 * Men


 * Women

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled
 * Open

Shooting

 * Men


 * Women

Swimming
France sent a total of 35 swimmers to these Games, including Alain Bernard and Laure Manaudou.

* Competed in the heats only
 * Men

* Competed in the heats only
 * Women

Synchronized swimming
France will have two entrants in synchronized swimming, competing in the duet event.

Tennis

 * Men


 * Women

Wrestling
Key:
 * VT – Victory by Fall.
 * PP – Decision by Points – the loser with technical points.
 * PO – Decision by Points – the loser without technical points.


 * Men's freestyle


 * Men's Greco-Roman
 * Ara Abrahamian of Sweden, who beat Melonin Noumonvi for bronze in the 84 kg class, was stripped of his medal for violating the spirit of fair play. However, the medal was not handed to Noumonvi or any other wrestler.
 * Yannick Szczepaniak originally finished fifth, but in November 2016, he was promoted to bronze due to disqualification of Khasan Baroev.


 * Women's freestyle