The format is substantially different to the one which operated at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where athletics finals took place in the mornings on eight of the 10 scheduled days of competition.

For the first time in Olympic competition the schedule, which will be held over 17 sessions, will involve repechage rounds in all individual track events from 200 to 1500 metres, including the hurdles events.

Athletes in these events who do not qualify by place in round one heats will have a second chance to qualify for the semi-finals.

The spacing of events means that doubling up will be possible in the 100 and 200 metres, 800m and 1500m, 5,000m and 10,000m, long jump and triple jump and 20km and 35km race walks, with athletes involved not having to compete in more than one discipline on any given day.

The road events will be contested over four mornings.

The schedule will open with the men’s and women’s 20 kilometres race walks on the morning of Thursday August 1 and is due to conclude with the women’s marathon on the morning of Sunday August 11.

The first track medals are set to be awarded during the first evening session, on Friday, August 2, which is due to conclude with the men’s 10,000m final.

The women’s triple jump, men’s shot put and women’s 100m finals all feature on day two, while day three starts with the women’s 3,000m steeplechase heats and ends with the men’s 100m final.

The world’s best male pole vaulters will compete for the Olympic title on day four, prior to the men’s 1500m and women’s 200m finals on day five.

Day six kicks off with the 35km race walk and is due to conclude with the men’s 3,000m steeplechase final.

The 400m hurdles events have been taken to another level in recent years and in Paris the women’s final will be held on day seven and the men’s on day eight, when the heptathlon is set to conclude.

Day nine offers a total of nine finals, from the men’s marathon in the morning through to the men’s and women’s 4x400m finals in the evening.

The qualification system for athletics competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was published last month, again based on a dual pathway of qualification that will see 50 per cent of athletes qualify through entry standards and the remaining 50 per cent qualify through world rankings.

As part of this, the World Athletics Relays in Nassau in The Bahamas on May 4 and 5 will be the main Olympic qualifying event for the relays, offering the pathway for 14 out of the 16 places. 

Olympic Games ticketing is now open and organisers have also revealed the routes for the Olympic marathon and the two mass event races - a 42.195km course and a 10km course - that will be open to the general public.