Albania at the 2024 Summer Olympics
It signified the nation's tenth appearance at the summer Olympics, since the official debut in 1972, except for 1976, 1980 due to the US led boycott, 1984 due to USSR led boycott, 1988, the nation's return for the Olympics in 1992.Albania earned their first Olympic medals in any sport, with wrestler Chermen Valiev winning bronze in the men's freestyle 74 kg category, and later earning their second bronze won by fellow wrestler Islam Dudaev in the men's freestyle 65 kg category.Albanian track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):[1][2][3] Albanian shooters achieved one quota places for Paris 2024 based on the allocations of universality spots.For the first time since 2008, Albania qualified three wrestlers for the following classes into the Olympic competition.Zelimkhan Abakarov qualified for the games by virtue of top five results through the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia; meanwhile Islam Dudaev and Chermen Valiev qualified for the games through the 2024 World Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.