A further five Aussies are in action later today at Stade de France including the 1500m men, Bree Masters in the 100m and Daniel Golubovic completing the grueling Decathlon.

Caldwell progresses but Bissett misses in 800m 

A smart and gutsy run by Abbey Caldwell has delivered a win in heat one of the 800m repechage in a time of 2:00.07, to progress to the semi-finals.  

The 23-year-old on Olympic debut backed up after placing fifth in her heat in a season best of 1:58.49 just 15 hours earlier. 

“Over the line, the feeling was definitely pure joy,” Abbey said.

“But now it's relief and pretty much just refocus. There's still plenty more to do and we've got one more, hopefully two more, jobs to complete.

“I'm so excited. I'm hoping that the semi-finals is an opportunity to actually bring out my best. I want to be in that front pack and I want to be challenging everyone. I really want to put my head down and see what I can get out of myself.”

Unfortunately, Catriona Bissett could not reproduce her best form with the short turnaround in the repechage. She placed third in repechage heat three in 2:02.35.

The Australian record holder paced herself well to have the legs to kick in the home straight but couldn’t find a direct line through and lost momentum. She was physically ill after the race from the exertion of trying to progress.

Australia will be represented in the semi-finals in Paris (04:35pm AEST Monday) by Abbey and Claudia Hollingsworth who auto-qualified from the heats.

Marschall comfortably clear and through to Pole Vault Final

World Championship bronze medallist Kurtis Marschall made light work of pole vault qualification. He cleared 5.40m, 5.60m and 5.70 on his first attempts and passed at 5.75m. 

He didn’t need to jump again, with his 5.70m enough to see him into the 12-man final at 3am AEST 6 August.

Kurtis is happy with his technique and form but wants to limit his number of jumps due to an ankle injury that set him back a few months ago.

“The jump's there but the number of jumps isn't necessarily there,” Kurtis said.

“I played it safe and played it smart and got through. That's all we needed to do. 

“Technically everything's flowing, everything's good. My body weight's good, my speed's good, strength's good, everything's lining up. We couldn't have got through any smoother.”

Azzopardi just misses progressing, Browning not at his best in 100m heats

For the first time since the Sydney Olympics, Australia has fielded two starters in the men’s 100m, Rohan Browning and Joshua Azzopardi. 

In his Olympic debut, Josh Azzopardi had a big task ahead of him to qualify for the semi-finals with only the first three guaranteed of progression. 

Facing up to three athletes with sub-10 times this season, he would need to improve on his recent PB of 10.14s. But the no-fuss professional, didn’t seem to be phased by the opposition and the occasion, getting away to a terrific start and more than matching it with the field, placing a close fourth in a time of 10.20s.

He missed by just 0.04 seconds in progressing to the men’s 100m semi-finals in Paris. No surprise Josh was pleased with his effort.

“I'm actually happy with how I ran,” Josh said. 

“I obviously would have loved to make that semi-final, but to be added into the 100m late and to come fourth in my heat against some massive men, it was just awesome to be out there and I’m stoked with how it went.

“A few of them had sub ten PBs or sub-10 seasons bests, so to come out on top of them means that I'm kind of in the conversation of a bit of sub-10, hopefully next year or in the coming years.”

Racing in heat six of the 100m, there were positive signs for Rohan who has endured a difficult year of injury, but always shown up. He placed sixth in an equal season’s best time of 10.29s.

But Rohan was reluctant to use injury as an excuse.

“I'm not scapegoating injury this year,” Rohan said. “I came into this healthy for the past two months and actually really confident in where I was at. I saw glimmers that I was in the same shape as I was in Tokyo but didn't put it together and was just off the pace today.”

Asked if he needs to change anything?

“I don't think I need to do anything revolutionary. I think I just need to continue to evolve and tweak things,” Rohan said.

“In this sport where the margins are so slim, you don't need to go and do something drastic. I feel like I have a great team around me. I feel like we've got a model that I know has been working, even though the results haven't been there. 

“As unconvincing as that might sound, I have full faith in that system. I think it's a matter of patience, sticking with it and just continuing.”

Golubovic battling through day two of the decathlon 

After finishing day one of the Decathlon with a total of 3771 points, Daniel Golubovic, made a conservative start in the 110m hurdles on day two clocking 15.15s. In the discus, he threw 44.65m on his opening attempt. 

Daniel was 14th in the discus and is currently 21st (5362 points). The Pole Vault is up next in the Paris afternoon heat, with the Javelin and 1500m to complete the grueling 10 event competition in the final session of the day.

Competition starts at 3.10am (javelin) and 5.45am (1500m) AEST 

Masters and 1500m men in Paris evening session

In the Men’s 1500m Oliver Hoare, Stewart McSweyn and Adam Spencer have one last shot at progressing to the semi-finals when they race in the repechage.

There are two repechage heats and the top-three in each will progress. Stewart is drawn in heat one at 3:15am AEST with Ollie and Adam in heat two.

Bree Masters contests the biggest race of her career in Women’s 100m Semi-Final from 3:50am AEST.

The fastest woman at the Games will be decided shortly after at 5.20am AEST, Bree hoping to be amongst that field.

Andrew Reid and David Tarbotton