Marathon Swimming – Aussies earn maximum Olympic Quotas

Australia’s open water swimmers have ensured they will have a full complement of two women and two men contesting the 10km event in Paris 2024, securing the remaining three quotas at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha.

With 2023 World Championship silver medallist Chelsea Gubecka already securing a quota and being selected to the Australian Olympic Team for Paris 2024, Aussie swimmers needed to finish in the top 13 of eligible athletes in Doha to lock in a second women’s quota and both men’s quotas.

Moesha Johnson pulled out an incredible swim on Saturday, finishing fourth in 1 hour 57.30.8, just two seconds off the podium, to secure a quota for Australia.

On Sunday, Nicholas Sloman and Kyle Lee finished in fifth and ninth respectively to also secure quotas for Australia.

The results ensure Australia can send a full complement of four swimmers to contest the 10km event in the Seine River at Paris 2024.

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Cycling – Track – Seven-medal haul on home soil

Australia started its 2024 international track cycling campaign with one gold, four silver and two bronze medals at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Adelaide.

Matthew Richardson, Matthew Glaetzer, Leigh Hoffman and Thomas Cornish crossed the line more than more than half a second ahead of Japan for gold in the men’s team sprint.

Georgia Baker and Sophie Edwards in the women's madison scored 27 points in the 30km race for silver, behind Great Britain duo Elinor Barker and Katie Archibald.

Blake Agnoletto claimed silver in the men's elimination event, just like he did at the 2023 Track Nations Cup in Canada.

Australians Blake Agnoletto, Conor Leahy, Kelland O'Brien and Samuel Welsford battled hard in the gold medal face-off against Great Britain in the men’s team pursuit, but ultimately fell short by 0.4 seconds.

Richardson and Glaetzer were back on the podium in the men’s sprint, with Richardson beaten in the gold medal decider by Kaiya OTA (JPN) and Glaetzer took the bronze.

Georgia Baker, Alexandra Manly, Chloe Morgan and  Sophie Edwards's bronze in the women's team pursuit gave them a boost for what they're building towards in 2024.

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Canoe Slalom – Australian Open champions close highly competitive fortnight

More canoe slalom champions have been crowned at the Penrith Whitewater Stadium at the Australian Open, just one week after the Oceania Championships.

Tristan Carter and Jess Fox opened with the men’s and women’s canoe titles respectively, with the day’s program replicating the Olympic format.

Lucien Delfour took out the men's kayak final, while Jess and Noemie Fox won silver and bronze in the women’s kayak final.

In the last event, the kayak cross, Tim Anderson navigated his way to the men’s gold and Noemie picked up her second bronze of the weekend in the women’s kayak cross.

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Sailing – Grae Morris 4th at World Championships

iQFOiL sailor Grae Morris had a breakthrough campaign at the World Championships, finishing fourth at Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.

The 20-year-old just missed out on a medal, finishing third in his semi-final to settle for fourth overall.

 
Water Polo – Stingers open World Championships campaign with a dominant win over Singapore

The Aussie Stingers started their World Aquatics Championships campaign off with a dominant 32-1 win over Singapore in the pool stage of the competition.

The Sharks will play their first game of the Championships tonight (Monday 5 February at 9:30pm AEDT) against Croatia as the Stingers prepare for their match against New Zealand tomorrow (Tuesday 6 February at 6:30pm AEDT).

Read more here and keep up with results here.

Artistic Swimming – Aussies raise the bar at World Championships

The acrobatic team and technical duet performances at the World Aquatics Championships have shown the quality of Australian Artistic Swimming is on the rise.

In Doha the team of Rayna Buckle, Natalia Caloiero, Georgia Courage-Gardiner, Kiera Gazzard, Margo Joseph-Kuo, Anastasia Kusmawan, Zoe Poulis and Milena Waldmann scored 172.9033 in their acrobatic routine for 15th place, up from the 159.7100 posted at the 2023 World Championships.

Rayna and Kiera combined to finish 19th in the technical duet on 211.1166, a 21.4532 improvement compared to the 2023 World Championships.

Australia has already qualified to compete in both events at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Hockey – Hockeyroos start their FIH Pro League season, and the Kookaburras squad is announced

The Hockeyroos have started their FIH Pro League season in India with a 3-0 loss to China. The team will play against the United States, India, the Netherlands and Spain over the next two weeks as part of the season.

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The Kookaburras squad has just been released ahead of their 2024 international season as the team also heads to India shortly for upcoming games against Spain, the Netherlands, India and Ireland.

Diving – Three medals in three days at World Championships

Aussie divers are off to an impressive start at the World Aquatic Championships already claiming medals in non-Olympic disciplines.

Alysha Koloi claimed the world championship title in the women’s 1m springboard, whilst Shixin Li took home silver in the men’s.

The mixed team of Cassiel Rousseau, Nikita Hains, Shixin Li and Maddison Keeney has taken home third place in 3m and 10m platform event.

With an Olympic quota on the line, four-time Olympian Melissa Wu has advanced through to the semi-finals of the women’s 10m platform after placing 8th in the preliminaries.

Find more results here.

Surfing – Lay days build anticipation at Pipe Pro

The first Championship Tour (CT) event of the 2024 season, the Pipe Pro in Oahu, Hawaii, got off to a hectic start late last week before three lay days waiting for conditions to improve.

The men’s competition has seen all six Aussie competitors progress to the knockout round of 32, with Callum Robson and Jack Robinson both impressing on the opening day of competition.

The women’s competition is yet to commence, with the five Aussie surfers primed to hit the water for their first CT battles of the new season. 

Keep up to date with results here and with Surfing Australia.

Golf – Rain delay halts Jason Day’s strong momentum 

Jason Day is in a tie for sixth with one round to go at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, as rain has delayed play until Tuesday morning Australian time. 

He rocketed up the leaderboard after a nine-under 63 in the third round, where only the tournament leader Wyndham Clark went better. Sitting on -13, Jason is four strokes off the lead while Adam Scott (-9) and Cam Davis (-9) are tied for 20th.