Australian Athletes at the Paris Olympics 2024

Commencement of the Games

The Paris Olympics have commenced. Australia aims for a dynamic start with stars like Ariarne Titmus, Sam Short, and Elijah Winnington pursuing swimming medals. The Dolphins’ relay teams will also compete fiercely.

Cycling Hopefuls

Grace Brown, determined to surpass her Tokyo fourth-place finish, will ride in the women’s individual time trial.

Basketball and Hockey

The Boomers face Spain in basketball, while the Kookaburras begin their hockey campaign.

Day One Highlights (All times in AEST)

Artistic Gymnastics

• • 11:30pm: Men’s qualification, Jesse Moore

Badminton

• • 3:30am: Women’s singles, Tiffany Ho vs. Beiwen Zhang
  • 4:20am: Women’s doubles, Angela Yu & Setyana Mapasa vs. Nami Matsuyama & Chiharu Shida

Basketball

• • 7pm: Men’s Group A, Australia Boomers vs. Spain

Beach Volleyball

• • 11pm: Men’s Pool A, Izac Carracher & Mark Nicolaidis vs. David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig
  • 2am: Women’s Pool B, Taliqua Clancy & Mariafe Artacho del Solar vs. Chen Xue & Xinyi Xia
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Canoe Slalom

• • 11pm – 1:10am: Men’s heats, Tristan Carter
  • 12am – 2:10am: Women’s heats, Jessica Fox

Cycling Road

• • 10:30pm: Women’s individual time trial, Grace Brown
  • 12:32am: Men’s individual time trial, Lucas Plapp

Diving

• • 7pm: Women’s synchronised 3m springboard final, Maddison Keeney & Anabelle Smith

Equestrian

• • 5:30pm: Eventing team dressage, Australia
  • 5:30pm: Eventing individual dressage, Shane Rose, Kevin McNab, Christopher Burton

Hockey

• • 9:15pm: Men’s Pool B, Australia Kookaburras vs. Argentina
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Judo

• • 6pm: Men’s -60 kg elimination, Joshua Katz vs. Andrea Carlino

Rowing

• • 6:12pm: Women’s single sculls heats, Tara Rigney
  • 8pm: Women’s double sculls heats, Amanda Bateman & Harriet Hudson
  • 8:50pm: Women’s quadruple sculls heats, Caitlin Cronin, Laura Gourley, Rowena Meredith, & Ria Thompson

Rugby Sevens

• • 12pm: Men’s semi-final, Australia vs. Fiji

Shooting

• • 8:30pm: Women’s 10m air pistol qualification, Elena Galiabovitch

Skateboarding

• • Men’s street competition postponed due to rain; rescheduled for 29 July

Surfing

• • 3am: Men’s round one, Ethan Ewing, Jack Robinson
  • 7:48am: Women’s round one, Molly Picklum, Tyler Wright

Swimming

• • 7pm: Women’s 100m butterfly heats, Emma McKeon, Alexandria Perkins
  • 7:12pm: Women’s 400m freestyle heats, Ariarne Titmus, Jamie Perkins
  • 7:30pm: Men’s 100m breaststroke heats, Sam Williamson, Josh Yong
  • 7:45pm: Men’s 400m freestyle heats, Sam Short, Elijah Winnington
  • 8:15pm: Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats, Australia
  • 8:26pm: Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats, Australia
  • 4:30am: Women’s 100m butterfly semi-finals, Emma McKeon, Alexandria Perkins
  • 4:42am: Men’s 400m freestyle final, Sam Short, Elijah Winnington
  • 4:52am: Women’s 400m freestyle final, Ariarne Titmus, Jamie Perkins
  • 5:12am: Men’s 100m breaststroke semi-finals, Josh Yong
  • 5:34am: Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay final, Australia
  • 5:44am: Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay final, Australia

Table Tennis

• • 12:30am: Mixed doubles round of 16, Nicholas Lum & Minhyung Jee vs. Ovidiu Ionescu & Bernadette Szocs
  • 6:15am: Men’s singles round of 64, Finn Luu vs. Alberto Mino

  • Tennis

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• • Heavy rain delays outside court matches at Roland Garros
  • 8pm: Women’s singles first round, Daria Saville vs. Zheng Qinwen
  • From 8pm: Men’s singles first round, Matthew Ebden vs. Novak Djokovic, Rinky Hijikata vs. Daniil Medvedev
  • From 8pm: Women’s doubles first round, Daria Saville & Ellen Perez vs. Coco Gauff & Jessica Pegula

Water Polo

• • 4:05am: Women’s preliminary Group A, Australia Stingers vs. China