Thefor Day 8, Saturday 3 August (all times in AEST):
Saturday 3 August (All times in AEST)
The Australians continue to lag behind the course leaders, with Jason Day sitting in equal 13th and Min Woo Lee back in equal 35th.
Australians Joshua Bell and Aislin Jones will compete in the Skeet qualification rounds. Skeet shooting is when participants shoot clay targets that are flung into the air.
Tara Rigney will race for a medal in this six-way medal race, with World Record holder Angelova Desislava of Bulgaria and Olympic Record holder Emma Twigg of NZ both in the mix.
Thomas Hodges and Zachery Schubert will be looking for their first win of the Games after successive losses to Poland and Germany. It’ll be hard for them to progress past the Group stage without a loss here.
Australia will line up in the medal race against a tough field, including world-best Romania. This is shaping up to be a golden session of rowing for the Aussie women.
With only a few days of swimming left, there’s plenty of action left in the pool. Australians Sam Short (1500m Freestyle), Shayna Jack & Meg Harris (50m Freestyle), and Men’s & Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay teams all compete in heats here, with the finals later in the day.
Australians Michael Matthews, Ben O’Connor, and Simon Clarke will compete in the gruelling 273km race. Keep an eye on the outstanding French scenery, as riders travel through the outskirts of Paris culminating in the big finish near the Eiffel Tower.
Another potential moment of rowing greatness, with the six-team final featuring Australia, World Record holders Germany, in-form Netherlands and powerhouses Romania.
After defeating U.S. pair Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul last night, Matthew Ebden and John Peers will be looking to win one more match to secure Australia’s first gold medal in tennis at the Olympics since Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde won the same event in 1996.
Australian windsurfer Grae Morris is guaranteed a medal in the men’s Windsurfing event, and will enter the grand final medal race in top position on the leaderboard after a series of 14 races so far. The final race will have only three competitors to determine the medal order. Morris will become the first Australian medal in Windsurfing since the 1992 Olympics.
Australia sits on top of Pool B, and another win here against Spain (currently third out of six teams in the group) would likely cement top spot.
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This team is on fire – they’ve beaten both Serbia and France so far. Tonight, they take on Hungary, a team traditionally a force in water polo. Australia currently sit in second spot in Group B.
Jess Fox qualified second-fastest, while her sister, Noemie, qualified eighth (there are 37 qualifiers all together). After the women’s races, Australians Tim Anderson (qualified 20th) and Tristan Carter (qualified 22nd) will start their medal pursuit.
Australian boxer Charlie Senior will face Phillipino Carlo Paalam in the Quarter-Final.
The team of NBA superstars is back in action, with the U.S. looking for three straight wins. They should breeze past Puerto Rico, which has yet to win a game.
Australia’s last group game will be critical to see if they can sneak into the top two (they’re currently third) and progress straight to the Semi-Finals or if they’ll have to settle for the Play-in game series to compete against three other teams for 3rd and 4th spot.
Australian surfer Jack Robinson will face Brazilian superstar and three-time World Champion Gabriel Medina in the Final at 6:00 a.m (AEST).
In the heats, Aussie Bree Masters ran an 11.26, her fastest time since 2024. She’ll likely need to go as close to 11 seconds as possible to make the final, which will be at 5:20 a.m. (AEST). Whatever the result, she will become the first Australian woman since 2000 to qualify for the semi-finals in this race.
Matthew Temple snuck into the final in lane one, and is an outside chance for a spot on the podium.
Two Australians in this final: Kaylee McKeown and Ella Ramsay. McKeown now has four individual medals across Tokyo and Paris. She’s in lane one for this event, which is a new addition to her program. Summer McIntosh is the favourite to win, but anything can happen in swimming finals.
A huge race – Australians Ariarne Titmus and Lani Pallister will be in lanes 3 and 6, with the lethal American pair of Katie Ledecky and Paige Madden between them in lanes 4 and 5. Can Titmus add another gold to the medal cabinet?
Iona Anderson, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers won their heat, and recorded a time one second slower than the Americans. All eyes will be on the centre two lanes here.
