Artistic Swimming

The Team Free Routine will get underway following Australia’s degree of difficulty score of 43.200 in the Team Technical Routine. In the free section of artistic swimming creativity takes centre stage.

With no mandatory elements, teams have the liberty to innovate and showcase unique choreography and movements.

This event highlights the harmonious coordination of up to eight swimmers, all performing in sync with the music, creating a mesmerising and dynamic spectacle.

Currently ranked 10th, Australia will look to improve their overall score and progress into medal positions.

The session starts at 3:30am AEST with Australia scheduled to perform to the soundtrack of Avatar, with the theme ‘way of water.’

Athletics 

Never before has Australia earned a Women’s 1500m medal, but that may all change, with thanks to Jessica Hull who poses as a genuine medal threat after shaving more than five seconds off the Australian record this year. Jessica will be joined in the first round of the women's 1500m by three-time Olympian Linden Hall, along with Georgia Griffith.

Three athletes return for repechage events, Tayleb Willis in the 110m Hurdles, Ellie Beer in the 400m and Calab Law in the 200m.

In the field, qualification starts in women’s Long Jump with Brooke Buschkuehl at her third Olympic Games and Cameron McEntyre at his first, in the Javelin.

After setting a new personal best of 44.53 in the heats, Reece Holder goes out in the 400m semi-finals in the evening session, with Alanah Yukich in the 400m Hurdles semi-final.

Basketball

The Boomers hit the court against Serbia in the knockout phase of the tournament at Bercy Arena in Paris at 10.30pm AEST on Tuesday.

Australia was fifth-ranked after the pool stages, losing two of their three matches but will take confidence heading into the game after their recent 84-73 win against the Serbs in an Olympic warm-up game, where Patty Mills scored 28 points.

Serbia won the silver medal in Tokyo and boast NBA star centre Nikola Jokic while the Boomers hold the head-to-head advantage 3-2.

The winner of Australia and Serbia will meet the winner of the quarter-final between sixteen-time gold medallists USA and Brazil.

Beach Volleyball

Aussie pair Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Antacho del Solar are on centre court at the Eiffel Tower Stadium for their quarterfinal against Switzerland. 

The Swiss pair of Zoe Verge-Depre and Esmee Boebner have had a clean competition so far at Paris 2024 and will be a tough opponent for the Australians.

The match is scheduled for 5am AEST 7 August.

Canoe Sprint

Four Australian crews compete on the opening day of the sprint kayaking at Nautical Stadium flatwater course with morning heats and afternoon quarter finals.

A must-watch race is the Men’s K2 500 where Jean van Westhuyzen and Tom Green will begin their Olympic title defence from the Tokyo Games.

Jean’s younger brother Pierre will kick off the regatta in the second heat of the day in the Men’s K4 500 with crewmates Riley Fitzsimmons, Jackson Collins and Noah Havard.

In the women’s, Ella Beere, Aly Bull, Alexandra Clarke and Yale Steinepreis will race in the Women’s K4 500 before Ella and Aly team up in the K2 500.

Cycling – Track

Australia’s Men’s Team Pursuit are the fastest qualifiers into round one and will be riding for a spot in the gold medal race from 3.14am AEST on 7 August.

Sam Welsford, Kelland O’Brien, Conor Leahy and Oliver Bleddyn set a national record on day one at the velodrome in Paris and face defending champions Italy in the next round over 4km.

The Men’s Team Sprint is also back in action and will race China for a spot in the gold medal ride after setting the third fastest time in qualifying. The top two fastest times from round one will advance to the gold medal ride off.

Matthew Richardson, Leigh Hoffman and Matthew Glaetzer are back on the boards at 3am AEST on 7 August.

The other event on day two of racing will see Australia’s Women’s Team Pursuit begin qualifying from 1.30am AEST on 7 August. Maeve Plouffe, Chloe Moran, Sophie Edwards, Alex Manly and Georgia Baker are all in the mix for a spot in the Team Pursuit where the top eight teams progress to the first round.

Diving

Five-time Olympian Melissa Wu and debutant Ellie Cole will compete for a medal in the Women’s 10m Platform Final, following an impressive showing in the semi-final.

Melissa, who won bronze in the event at Tokyo 2020, will be looking to secure her third medal in diving at the Olympics, while Ellie will aim to improve on her sixth place semi-final finish.

Meanwhile Kurtis Mathews will make his Olympic debut when the men’s 3m Springboard Preliminary competition begins at 6pm AEST, with Melissa and Ellie set to compete in the women’s 10m Platform final at 11pm AEST.

Sailing

Matt Wearn is set to compete for his second consecutive gold medal, and make history as the first sailor to do so in the Men’s Dinghy. The Medal Race is scheduled on August 6th at 11:45pm AEST, with a light sea breeze expected to fill the bay. 

Day 11 will also mark the penultimate day of racing for the Mixed Dinghy and Mixed Multihull classes, while the Kitesurfing fleets will continue their opening series racing with two more days to go. These events will commence at 8pm AEST.

Skateboarding

Just 14 and 15 years old respectively, Aussie skateboarders Arisa Trew and Ruby Trew will make their Olympic debuts in the Women’s Park competition at Le Concorde. The athletes share no relation despite their identical last names.

Skaters attempt three 45-second runs with each skater’s best score from the three runs used to define who advances to the final. In the final, skaters again complete three runs, with each skater’s best run determining the medallists. Skaters will usually tweak their runs as they go along to get higher scores. 

Competition commences from 8:30pm AEST 6 August. 

Sport Climbing

Oceania Mackenzie is seeded 10th in the Women’s Boulder & Lead climbing event.

She is ranked 52 in the world and is coming off a string of World Cup successes. Placing fourth in boulder at the Salt Lake City round of world cups, the Victorian starts the competition off in her preferred discipline.

Debuting alongside the sport in Tokyo, she missed out on a spot in the final and finished 19th overall.

As Australia’s top-ranked female climber, Mackenzie has been a pioneer of the sport in Australia, achieving the country’s best-ever result at a World Championships with seventh last year. She also became the first Australian climber to reach a World Cup final.

Oceania will begin her climbing campaign at 6:00pm AEST.

Table Tennis

The Australian Women’s Team of Michelle Bromley, Minhyung Jee and Melissa Tapper take to the South Paris Arena tomorrow in the round of 16 against Chinese Taipei. 

The team match-up will include a doubles match and two singles with an additional two matches to be played if a team doesn’t win three consecutive matches.

Australia will be looking for another strong performance in the sport after the men were impressive against world number four Japan.

Water Polo

After finishing the group stage undefeated, the Aussie Stingers are ready for the challenge that lies ahead - a quarter-final against Greece.

The Aussie Stingers most recently played Greece at a tournament in Amsterdam leading into the Olympics, where they claimed bragging rights 14-7.

But it will be all on the line in the quarter-final, in front of what’s expected to be a sold out crowd of 17,00

The game begins at 3am AEST at La Defense Arena.