France at the 1984 Summer Olympics 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay France at the 1984 Summer Olympics France competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 238 competitors, 189 men and 49 women, took part in 139 events in 21 sports. After not competing in archery in 1980, France returned to the sport in 1984 with two male competitors. Men's Individual Competition: Men's 400 metres Men's Marathon Men's High Jump Men's Javelin Throw Men's Pole Vault Men's Hammer Throw Men's Decathlon Men's 20 km Walk Men's 50 km Walk Women's 3.000 metres Women's High Jump Women's Heptathlon Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
Rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics two-time Olympic champions from East Germany in the men's 8 twice at the Lucerne pre-olympic regatta. Steve Redgrave won his first of five consecutive gold medals. Elisabeta Oleniuc, later known as Elisabeta Lipă, also won her first gold medal. Twenty years later she won her fifth gold medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The quadruple sculls events, as in 1976 and 1980, were again held without coxswain for men and with coxswain for women. Rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics Rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics featured 14 events in total, for both men and women. Events were