Paris is calling for the Gangurrus after winning the FIBA 3x3 Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament and for the women’s and men’s 4x100m track relay teams to highlight the weekend in Olympic sport.
3x3 Basketball – ‘We’re going to the Olympics!’
The Gangurrus women are bound for the Olympics for the first time in their history after winning the second FIBA 3x3 Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Utsunomiya, Japan on Sunday.
They are set to become the first Australian 3x3 team to compete at an Olympic Games, which for Paris 2024 will be in the urban sports precinct at the iconic Place de la Concorde.
Tournament MVP Anneli Maley, Alex Wilson, Marena Whittle and Lauren Mansfield strung together four must-win games off the back of an 16-18 loss in overtime against the Netherlands to start.
Victories against Kenya (22-9) and no.2 seed Canada (21-16) in the group stages set up a high intensity semi-final against Brazil (18-16) and a nail-biting rematch against Canada (19-16) in the final.
“I’m so proud of us”
— FIBA3x3 (@FIBA3x3) May 5, 2024
🗣️ Anneli Maley and her EMOTIONS after getting the ticket to #Paris2024 Olympics! 🎟️🇦🇺#3x3OQT x @BasketballAus pic.twitter.com/U1SpAdnbLk
The four-time Asia Cup winners and bronze medallists took their final chance to qualify for the Olympics, as they were not eligible to participate in the final Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Hungary.
Athletics – New relay era begins with Olympic berths
Australia’s women’s and men’s 4x100m relay teams have qualified for Paris 2024 at the Bahamas World Relay Championships.
The women’s 4x100m team comprising Torrie Lewis, Bree Masters, Ella Connolly and Ebony Lane finished the heats in a national-record time of 42.83 seconds to book a spot for Australia to compete at the Olympics in this event for the first time since Sydney 2000.
“I’m so speechless! I had full faith that we could do it, but we actually did it and it’s just wild. To have that automatic Olympic qualification is so, so exciting,” Bree said.
The team then finished fifth in the final, showcasing they are right at home in the top tier of global track sprinting.
The men’s 4x100m relay team members Sebastian Sultana, Jacob Despard, Calab Law and Joshua Azzopardi finished in 38.46 seconds to be second across the line in repechage, automatically confirming their team’s inclusion for the Olympic competition.
Both the men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams fell just short of winning a quota, but still have a chance to book a ticket to Paris, with the top 2 unqualified teams on the World Athletics relays ranking list at 30 June 2024 earning a quota.
Shooting – Gold and silver for trap shooters at Baku World Cup
James Willett and Penny Smith have collected their first World Cup medals of the Olympic year, gold and silver, at the ISSF World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.
James, a dual-Olympian, finished fifth in the qualifiers to make the six-man final. In the final he missed only one of his last 30 shots to score 46 – placing ahead of Filip Marinov’s 42 (SLO) and Jean Pierre Brol Cardenas’s 34 (GER) – to get his first individual World Cup gold medal since 2019.
Tokyo 2020 Olympian Penny Smith topped qualifying in Baku and scored 40 in the final to win her 11th career World Cup medal. She finished behind Lebanon's Bassil Ray (44) and ahead of Erica Sessa's (ITA) 34.
Rugby 7s – Silver in Singapore
Australia’s rugby 7s teams headed to Singapore for the penultimate round of the World SVNS Series.
The women’s team entered the round on top of the overall standings, however their silver performance saw them slip behind New Zealand on the ladder.
The team blitzed through their pool games and narrowly beat France 19-12 to earn themselves a place in the final, where they ultimately went down to the New Zealand side 21-31.
The men’s team went into the Singapore round in sixth position on the overall ladder, but were able to jump up to fourth position after they made their way to the bronze medal match against Great Britain, where they finished in fourth place after being defeated 7-26.
The two teams will head to Madrid, Spain for the final and deciding round of the World SVNS Series from 31 May to 2 June.
Tennis – Jordan Thompson wins his biggest doubles title
Australian doubles player Jordan Thompson has taken out the men's doubles tournament at the Madrid Open alongside his American playing partner Sebastian Korda.

The pair, who had never teamed up before this week, recorded a 6-3-7-6(7) victory against Uruguay’s Ariel Behar and Adam Pavlasek (CZE) in the final.
Jordan is the first Australian to win a Madrid Masters men’s doubles title, the 16th Australian to claim an ATP Masters 1000 doubles crown and the seventh to achieve the feat on clay.
Artistic Swimming – Top 7 performances at World Cup
Australia’s artistic swimmers competed at the Paris Olympic venue over the weekend for the second part of the World Cup series.
The Team competed in the Team Technical, coming seventh behind the United States with 184.0911 points, and in the Team Free where they finished fourth, just 8.4582 points behind Kazakhstan in third place.

Kiera Gazzard and Carolyn Buckle placed 17th in the both the women’s Duet Technical and Duet Free where they scored 178.4300 and 148.0624 points respectively.
Golf – Back-to-back wins for Ripper GC
Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman finished in a tie for second place at LIV Singapore, two strokes behind Brooks Koepka, to power Ripper GC to their second-straight win in the team's event.
On the PGA Tour Min Woo Lee was the best of the Aussies, finishing T-24 at the CJ Cup in Dallas, Texas.
Sport Climbing – 4th for Mackenzie and PB for Campbell Harrison in Utah
Sport climbers Oceana Mackenzie and Campbell Harrison took to the walls at the Salt Lake City World Cup event.
Tokyo Olympian Oceana finished fourth in the bouldering event, just behind France’s Naile Meignan in the bronze medal position.
Campbell achieved his highest ever World Cup finish, coming 21st, in an encouraging performance less than three months before he makes his Olympic debut in Paris.