Alana Boyd will fly the flag for the Australian team on Day 10 in the track and field. Boyd will compete in the women’s pole vault final and attempt to win gold.

Australian 400m runner Steve Solomon put on his own show by qualifying for the 400m Olympic final with a personal best of 44.97 seconds at just 19 years of age. He has become the first Australian Olympic 400m finalist since Darren Clark at Seoul 1988.

23-year-old Canberra hurdler Lauran Boden ran the best race of her European season and qualified for the semi-finals of the 400 metre hurdlers. Her fifth place and 56.27 seconds ended up being enough by 0.02s after an anxious wait.

Day 10 marks the start of the sprint canoe/kayak at Eton Dorney with Murray Stewart in the K1, dual Olympic medallist Ken Wallace in the K2 with David Smith, gold medal hopefuls the women’s K4 and youngster Jake Doneghy in the single canoe.

Shane Perkins is going for gold in the men’s sprint final at the Velodrome, with all of Australia behind him for a medal.

Having overcome major illness in the lead up to the Games, Ethan Warren will finally realise his Olympic dream as competition gets underway in the men’s 3m springboard.

Hopes for Australia’s first ever medal in jumping will come to a head on Day 10 when the medal rounds for the team event take place.

Putting the demons of his Beijing Olympic campaign behind him, Central Coast sailor Tom Slingsby is set to realise his dream of Olympic gold in the men’s Laser at Weymouth.

Six-time Olympian Michael Diamond shot three perfect rounds in qualifications and heads into the final well-placed to get his second Olympic gold medal.

After performing their technical routine on Day 9, Eloise Amberger and Sarah Bombell return to the pool today for the duet free routine in the synchronised swimming.