The medals of the Grandes Écoles at the Tokyo Olympics

The Grandes Écoles of business, engineers and French political studies institutes are particularly represented at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Find out who these students or graduates are taking part in the 2020 Olympics as well as the list of Grandes Écoles medals!

Disclaimer : This article is obviously bound to evolve over the days to adapt to current events. The classification at the end of the article is therefore only temporary.

This year, at the Tokyo Olympics, 50 athletes are students or graduates of business schools, engineers, or institutes of political studies. They thus represent 13.23% of the athletes participating in this mega-event. In total, more than twenty schools are present at the Tokyo Olympics!

If the Olympics have just started, some students and graduates of Grandes Écoles have already enabled France to win a few medals, like Romain Cannone, gold medal in fencing, Manon Brunet, bronze medal. in fencing, and Clarisse Agbegnenou, gold medal in judo. And that’s just the beginning !

EDHEC, SKEMA, Grenoble EM, emlyon, Sciences Po… The Grandes Écoles most represented at the Tokyo Olympics

Most of the students and graduates who take part in the Tokyo Olympics have followed the Grande École Program or a BBA in their establishment. Some have even followed their courses remotely, this is particularly the case of Manon Brunet who followed the BBA Online from EDHEC. A few rare athletes are students in executive education programs, such as Clarisse Agbegnenou who is currently at HEC Paris.

The most represented establishment at the Tokyo Olympics is Grenoble EM. Grenoble business school has 12 athletes, or 23.5% of athletes from Grandes Écoles. The business school is followed by l’EDHEC which has 7 athletes (13.7%), Sciences Po with 5 athletes (9.8%), emlyon which has 4 athletes (7.8%) and SCHEME which has 3 athletes (5.9%).

Business schools stand out, as many of them offer online training or facilities for high-level athletes. These are not the only ones, because the universities are also greatly represented at the Tokyo Olympics, but we have chosen to isolate only the Grandes Écoles. For graduates from several schools, we have chosen to retain the school in which they obtained their Master’s degree.

SKEMA is also committed to the training of athletes and has recently acquired the label Generation 2024. « The Generation 2024 label is an additional tool to strengthen and multiply the bridges between school and sport. It helps to strengthen the image and attractiveness of schools and to boost their educational project by mobilizing local sports clubs and local authorities around common projects. », Explains Tony Estanguet, President of the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Find the list of sports students or graduates of Grandes Écoles in alphabetical order:

* Athletes who display an asterisk do not represent France at the Olympics. Thus, Alexandre Houssein represents Djibouti and Jean-Pierre Bourhis represents Senegal.

The medals of the Grandes Écoles at the Tokyo Olympics

So far, France has obtained very few medals. Among the seven athletes who distinguished themselves during the Tokyo Olympics, only three are currently graduates or students of Grandes Écoles. Thus, HEC and SKEMA are at the top of the temporary ranking which will of course have to change in the coming days!

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