Athletics

In the early session on day seven, Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson qualified for the Women’s High Jump Final, while Bree Masters progressed to the semi-finals of the Women’s 100m – the first Aussie woman to do so in 24 years.

Rose Davies has qualified for the Women’s 5000m Final, with Izzi Batt-Doyle missing the final by one spot. Lauren Ryan ran well as she now looks ahead to the 10,000m later at the Games.

At just 19, Claudia Hollingsworth automatically progressed to the Women’s 800m semi-finals by finishing second in her heat. Abby Caldwell (5th) and Catriona Bissett (7th) ran well in their respective heats but will now need to race the repechage in the morning session on Sunday to look for a top-three finish and a spot in the semi-finals.

All three Australians in the Men’s 1500m heats missed automatic qualification. Olli Hoare, Stewy McSweyn and Adam Spencer will get another chance in the repechage.

In the Decathlon, Daniel Golubovic made his Olympic debut, and although not his best opening day, he loved the Olympic atmosphere and has some of his stronger events on day two. He is currently sitting in 20th place. Teammate and Tokyo medallist Ash Moloney has sadly withdrawn from the competition after three events due to a suspected adductor injury.

Bundaberg’s Taryn Gollshewsky, 31, missed the Tokyo Olympics when breaking her leg in the lead up, finally made her Olympic debut in Paris. She made the most of her Olympic opportunity, nailing a significant personal best of 62.36m, and narrowly missed the final by just 27cm.

Boxing

Australia’s new boxing superstar Teremoana Teremoana has fallen short in his bid to claim an Olympic medal.

With a nation on his shoulders and the majority of the arena behind him, Teremoana put on an inspired showing against reigning Olympic champion Bakhodir Jalolov (UZB), losing his 92kg+ quarter-final in a 5-0 decision.

In the women’s 57kg round of 16, Tina Rahimi bowed out 5-0 to Poland’s Julia Szeremeta in the round of 16, but still created history as Australia’s first female Muslim boxer.

Basketball

The Australian Boomers have made the quarter-finals of competition despite a narrow loss to Greece, 77-71.

Greece came out fast, quick to put a decent lead on the scoreboard and the pressure on the Australians, pushing out to their largest first-half lead of 17 with 2:34 left in the second quarter.

Despite a heroic comeback from the Aussies, in particular the scoring efforts from Patty Mills and Josh Giddey, they ran out of time on the clock.

Thankfully for Australia, other results in their pool did go their way, with Canada defeating Spain 88-85 to book Australia’s finals berth.

3x3 Basketball

Australia’s Women’s 3x3 Basketball team is on top of its pool after a 21-12 win over Azerbaijan in Paris.

Marena White top scored for the Aussies with eight points, while Alex Wilson added seven and Lauren Mansfield five.

Unfortunately the second match didn’t go the Aussies way, losing to Spain 21-17 at La Concorde in Paris.

“I’m proud of the three of us, it’s super hard when you don’t have a sub, so we were in the game the whole time and I’m really proud of how we battled out there,” Alex said.

Canoe Slalom

Jessica Fox has led four Australians into the next round of the Kayak Cross competition as the event made its Olympic debut in Paris.

Having already won two gold medals in Canoe Slalom at these Games, Jessica was back on the water and posted the second fastest time in the women’s time trial with 70.84s.

Her sister Noemie Fox also produced a good run as the eighth fastest in 73.09s as she made her own Olympic debut.

They both progress to Round One at 11.30am AEST where they will be pitted against three other opponents in what promises to be a dramatic race to the finish.

In the men’s time trial, Tim Anderson was 20th in a time of 71.41s and Tristan Carter was 22nd in 72.94S. They will be back in action in Round One at 12.40am AEST.

Cycling - BMX Race

Saya Sakakibara has become Australia’s first BMX Racing Olympic champion, claiming gold in the main event with the most dominant performance after all, after not losing a single race in Paris.

“I’ve run out of tears,” she said after the medal ceremony. “I just wanted to leave here having enjoyed the experience and having put everything out there.”

In her fourth Olympics, fellow Australian Lauren Reynolds finished third, fourth and eighth in her semi-finals to be the 10th ranked rider overall in the women’s field.

In the Men’s competition, Izaac Kennedy rode to a brave eighth place in the final after an unfortunate crash.

Golf

At five-under through two rounds, Jason Day continues to lead the way for the Australian team, with Min Woo Lee showing tremendous spirit with one of the rounds of the day in round two to make significant inroads on the leaderboard.

Jason is six strokes back in a tie for 13th after a round of three-under 68 that could have been a number of strokes better. Only four players returned a scorecard better than Min Woo’s six-under 65, elevating him 24 spots and into a tie for 34th at one-under par.

Min Woo tees off in Round 3 at 6.22pm AEST with Jason getting his round underway at 7:44pm.

Hockey

Rounding out the group stage of the Games, the Kookaburras suffered a narrow loss to India 3-2.

Flagbearer Eddie Ockenden almost helped Australia claw back the deficit on his history-making 450^th appearance for Australia but the few late desperate shots on goal wouldn’t go their way. The clock wound down handing India their first win over Australia at an Olympic Games in 52 years.

They finished third in their Pool B standings, and will now face The Netherlands in the quarter-finals at 1.30am on Monday August 5.

Rowing

Annabelle McIntyre and Jessica Morrison claimed bronze in the final of the Women’s Pair, the first medal for the Australian Rowing team at the Paris games.

Victory went to the Dutch crew of Ymkje Cleverling and Veronique Meester (6:58.67).

Annabelle and Jessica tried gamely to stick with them and make a late charge, but couldn’t make up any ground, then were rowed through near the line as the Romanians made a late surge to just nab the silver.

Sailing

In the Men’s Dinghy, Matt Wearn continued his quest to defend his gold and is currently sitting in first place after four races, secured in the day’s initial heat.

Grae Morris must wait another day to secure his place in the history books as light winds persisted on the Mediterranean Sea, with the Medal series postponed until better winds are forecasted.

Zoe Thomson faced two challenging races in light winds, while the Mixed Dinghy made its Olympic debut, with Australians Nia Jerwood and Conor Nicholas competing in the fleet. Olivia Price and Evie Haseldine concluded their Olympic campaign, finishing ninth in the Women’s Skiff class.

Shooting

With cooler conditions at the Chatearoux Shooting Centre, Olympic debutant Joshua Bell stepped out onto the shotgun range for his first day of Men’s Skeet qualification, closing the day with a total score of 70 out of 75.

The Australian is currently sitting in 18th place, with the top six men progressing through to the final, at the conclusion of tomorrow’s qualification.

Over on the pistol range, Elena Galiabovitch concluded her Paris Olympic campaign, competing in the 25m Pistol Women’s event, placing 35th overall.

Swimming

It was another stellar night in the pool for Australia with more finals booked and more gold medals added to the tally.

Super star Kaylee McKeown added another gold medal and Olympic record to her Paris 2024 collection after a stunning swim (2:03:73) in the 200m Backstroke.

Cam McEvoy also joined the honours list with a lightning fast 50m Freestyle final win (21:25) taking gold over Benjamin Proud (GBR) and Frenchmen Florent Manaudou.

Teammate Matthew Temple qualified for the Men’s 100m Butterfly final, while Kaylee and Elle Ramsey both booked spots in the Women’s 200m Individual Medley.

Tennis

Matt Ebden and John Peers are set to break Australia's 28-year Olympic tennis gold medal drought, advancing to the men's doubles final after defeating USA duo, Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul at Roland Garros. The Aussie pair won convincingly, 7-5, 6-2. They will face Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram, also from the USA, in the final on August 3.

Trampoline Gymnastics

Brock Batty has bounced his way into Olympic history in Trampoline Gymnastics, recording a 13th place finish on debut.

The 17-year-old wrote his name in the record books as the youngest trampolinist from any country to compete in the Olympic Games since the sport was introduced at Sydney 2000.

Brock’s first routine on his debut saw him post a score of 55.890, to record a final placing of 13th at the end of the qualifying competition.

Water Polo

The Australian Women’s Water Polo team put on a clinical performance against Canada to remain undefeated at the Paris Olympics.

The Stingers were never challenged in their group stage match at the Paris Aquatic Centre, winning 10-7 off the back of hat-tricks to Bronte Halligan and Alice Williams.

The win moves them to the top of group A with one game remaining.

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