Cycling – Track Nations Cup

The Adelaide Super-Drome will host some of the world’s best track cyclists just five months out from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with the 2024 UCI Track Nations Cup from Friday 2 February to Sunday 4 February.

More than 300 riders from 40 countries will compete across multiple disciplines with results contributing to each nation's Olympic ranking determining how many athletes each country qualifies for Paris 2024.

Australian Cycling Team stars Matthew Richardson, Matthew Glaetzer, Georgia Baker and Alexandra Manly – competing in her home state – will compete across all six Olympic events, including the team pursuit and team sprint.

“Ever since I have been on a bike I have been in South Australia, I am proud to be a South Australian,” Alexandra said. “It is super special to compete here as we have never had a Nations Cup at home.”

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Diving – World Championships

Australia’s top divers have headed to Doha, Qatar for the World Aquatics Championships in a last chance opportunity to claim the remaining Olympic quota spots for Australia at the upcoming Paris Olympic Games.

The competition begins on Friday 2 February with Australia hoping to secure quota spots in each of the men’s 3m springboard and women’s 10m platform – by finishing in the top 12 of eligible divers who have not already earned a quota spot or reached their country maximum quotas for that event.

Australia has already secured six of the eight possible individual quota spots through their results at the 2023 World Aquatic Championships and the 2023 Oceania Championships. 

The team hopes to secure additional quotas in the men’s and women’s 3m and 10m synchronised events, by finishing in the top four of nations who have not already secured a quota in that event.

World champion 10m platform diver Cassiel Rousseau is teaming up with Rio 2016 Olympian Domonic Bedggood in the men’s 10m platform synchronised, whilst four-time Olympian Melissa Wu and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Nikita Hains will headline the women’s 10m platform synchronised event.

In the 3m springboard synchronised events, Tokyo 2020 Olympian Sam Fricker and Kurtis Mathews will compete for Australia in the men’s, with Rio 2016 bronze medallists Anabelle Smith and Maddison Keeney hoping to secure the women’s quota.

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Marathon Swimming – World Championships

Marathon swimming at the 2024 World Aquatic Championships gets underway in Doha, Qatar from Saturday 3 February for the women and Sunday 4 February for the men. 

Australia has already qualified and selected Rio 2016 Olympian Chelsea Gubecka to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the women’s 10km marathon swim after she placed second at the 2023 World Aquatic Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

Each nation can qualify a maximum of two men and two women for the 10km event at Paris 2024, so Australian athletes will be hoping to secure the one remaining women's quota and two men's quotas. The top-13 eligible finishers from each of the men's and women's event earn a Paris 2024 quota for their country – respecting the maximum qualifiers per country and those athletes who have already qualified. 

Kyle Lee and Nicholas Sloman are competing in the men’s 10km event whilst Maddy Gough and Moesha Johnson will race in the women’s 10km to secure Australia additional quota positions at Paris 2024.

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Artistic Swimming – World Championships

Australia’s artistic swimming team will compete in two events at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships; the women’s duet technical and the women’s team.

The women’s duet technical team of Tokyo 2020 Olympians Carolyn Buckle and Kiera Gazzard will start their competition from Friday 2 February, with the finals being held on Monday 5 February.

The women’s team will take to the pool on Monday 5th February with finals being held the following day.

Australia has already qualified a team and duet position at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games from their performances at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan after winning the Oceania Swimming Association quota position.

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Water Polo – World Championships

The Aussie Sharks and Stingers have arrived in Doha, Qatar after their training camp in Brisbane for the 2024 World Aquatic Championships. 

The women’s team kickstart their campaign on Sunday 4 February against Singapore whilst the men’s team play Croatia in their opening match on Monday 5 February.

The Stingers are coming off a 4th place finish at the 2023 World Aquatic Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, whilst the Sharks finished in the top-10.

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Sailing – iQFOiL World Championships

Australia's iQFOiL sailors are competing in their World Championships at Lanzarote in the Canary Islands with Grae Morris currently sitting in third place with only two days of gold fleet racing remaining.

Samantha Costin is flying the Aussie flag in the women's event, currently sitting in 52nd, with Jarrod Jones and Harry Joyner currently outside the top 50 in the men's event.

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Canoe Slalom – Australian Open

Australia's canoe slalom athletes are gearing up for their final event on home soil before heading overseas in preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

In a final bid to impress selectors ahead of their nomination for Paris 2024 selection, Australia's athletes will compete in the 2024 Canoe Slalom Australia Open at Penrith Whitewater Stadium from Friday 2 February to Sunday 4 February.

It will be a world class field with athletes from more than 16 nations set to take part - including Australia's Olympic champion Jess Fox, Olympic and world champion Jiri Prskavec (CZE), and Great Britain's Joe Clarke (3x kayak cross world champion).

Western Australia's Brodie Crawford will be aiming for another strong weekend after securing the men's C1 quota for Australia last weekend.

New South Welshman Tim Anderson was Australia's best placed athlete in the men's kayak at last weekend's Oceania Championships, competing alongside dual Australian Olympian Lucien Delfour.

All eyes will be on Sunday's kayak cross event, with Australian Noemie Fox set to go head-to-head with reigning world champion Kimberley Woods (GBR) and World Cup gold medallist Luuka Jones (NZL). It will be important racing experience, with the opportunity to qualify a kayak cross quota for Australia  comingin June at the kayak cross global qualification event in Prague. 

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Hockey – Hockeyroos FIH Pro League season launch

The Hockeyroos are holding nothing back as they prepare to start their 2024 Olympic campaign at the FIH Pro League in India.

With matches in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, the Hockeyroos open season five of the FIH Pro League against China on Sunday 4 February, before taking on the United States, India, Netherlands and Spain over the next two weeks.

Hockeyroos head coach Katrina Powell is grateful to be travelling with a largely unchanged squad after a solid training block at the squad’s centralised High-Performance Centre in Perth.

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“We’ve had a great start to the year and we’re building nicely as we begin our home run to the Games, and what better way to start than with a tough FIH Pro League series abroad,” Powell said.

WA’s Penny Squibb and NT’s Brooke Peris won’t travel with the squad as both players were unavailable for selection while they manage injury.

All eyes will be on a few fresh faces set to get their opportunity, including Queensland’s Dayle Dolkens who has earned a late call up to the side, and excitement is building around a likely debut for South Australia’s Lucy Sharman.

Lucy has enjoyed a whirlwind entry into the Hockeyroos set up, after an impressive season with the Adelaide Fire in last year’s Hockey One League and at the Jillaroos’ Junior World Cup.

“It is so unreal to be selected into the Hockeyroos this year,” Sharman said. 

“When I got the email that I was selected for the squad, I was in Chile at the Junior World Cup just lying on my bed, FaceTiming my family and the email came through and I just burst into tears!” 

“It’s such a dream of mine and I’m excited for what the year holds.” 

Dayle Dolkens also earned her call up to the squad following a meteoric rise with the Brisbane Blaze in the Hockey One League, which put her on Powell’s radar just months after she was playing for her brother’s Div 1 men’s team in Townsville.

The Kookaburras will also play a handful of FIH Pro League matches in India from the 11th of February.

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Surfing – World Surf League – Pipe Pro

Aussie surfers kick off their 2024 World Surf League Championship campaign at Pipe Pro in Banzai Pipeline, Hawai'i.

Aussie Callum Robson posted the highest individual wave score on day 1 with a 9.00, while other Aussies including 2023 Championship Tour top five finishers Ethan Ewing and Jack Robinson also progressed to the round of 32.

Australia's female surfers, headlined by 2023 Tour top 5 Tyler Wright and Molly Picklum, and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Sally Fitzgibbons, will begin their competition in the coming days.

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Judo – Paris Grand Slam

Just days after Katharina Haecker claimed silver at the Portugal Grand Prix, the dual Olympian is one of six Australian judokas to line up for the IJF Paris Grand Slam starting on Friday 2 February.

She’ll be joined in the women’s -63kg division by Maeve Coughlan, Anneliese Fielder (women’s -48kg), Tinka Easton (women’s -52kg), Aoife Coughlan (women’s -70kg, fifth in Portugal) and Maria Swan (women’s -78kg).

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Golf – Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Cam Davis, Jason Day and Adam Scott all tee off at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California on Friday where $20,000,000 in prize money is up for grabs.

The Aussie action gets underway at 4:33am AEDT with Adam Scott, followed by Cam Davis (4:57am AEDT) and Jason Day (5:21am AEDT).

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