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The Australian Olympics schedule for Day 11, Tuesday 6 August (all times in AEST):
Tuesday 6 August (AEST)
🛶 5:30pm: Canoe Sprint, Men’s and Women’s K4 and K2 (Heats)
Canoe Sprint begins today at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium where the Rowing events took place last week. Australia has men’s and women’s crews of two and and four racing their heats.
🏃♂️ 6:00pm: Track and Field, (Morning Session)
On the track, Australians Jess Hull, Linden Hall and Georgia Griffith are set to compete in the heats of the Women’s 1500m. In the field, Cameron McEntyre will compete in the Men’s Javelin and Brooke Buschkuehl is in the Women’s Long Jump. Meanwhile, Tayleb Willis and Ellie Beer have one more chance to make the semi-final of their events in the Men’s 110m Hurdles and Women’s 400m Repechages.
🏊♀️ 6:00pm: Diving, Men’s 3m springboard (preliminary)
Kurtis Mathews is making his Olympic debut after he won the Australian trials for this event in June. He must finish in the top 18 in this preliminary round to advance to the semi-final tomorrow at 6:00pm.
🛹8:30pm: Skateboarding, Women’s Park (preliminary)
Arisa Trew and Ruby Trew will skate for Australia in this event. Unlike Jess and Noémie Fox, they are not sisters. The final is set to take place later in the evening at 1:30am (AEST).
🏀 10:30pm: Men’s Basketball, Australia v Serbia (Quarter-Final)
This match is do-or-die for the Boomers who scraped through the pool stages with a win against Spain and losses to Greece and Canada. In Paris, they are looking to better their bronze medal from Tokyo.
🏊♀️ 11:00pm: Diving, Women’s 10m platform (Finals 🥇)
There are two Aussies competing in this event. Five-time Olympian Melissa Wu qualified 11th out of 12 for this final. Fellow Aussie Ellie Cole, 17, qualified sixth.
Wednesday 7 August (AEST)
🚴♂️ 1:30am: Track Cycling, Men’s and Women’s Team Sprints and Pursuits
In the women’s events, Australia is racing in the team pursuit and qualifying starts at 1:30am. In the men’s events, Australia qualified third in the team sprint and first in the team pursuit last night. The first round of team sprint starts at 2:59am and the finals of the team pursuit will begin at 4:10am.
🏐 3:00am: Women’s Water Polo, Australia v Greece (Quarter-Final)
The Stingers are unbeaten so far and will be looking to maintain their clean record in this do-or-die clash with Greece. Australia topped Pool A while Greece were fourth in Pool B and have only won one of their four matches so far.
🏐 5:00am: Women’s Beach Volleyball, Australia v Switzerland (Quarter-Final)
Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar won silver in Tokyo and have looked strong through the preliminary stages. They are playing Swiss pair Zoé Vergé-Depré and Esmée Böbner for a spot in the semi-finals.
🏃♂️And then it’s time for track and field finals…
3:49am: Men’s 400m (Semi-Final )
Australian Reece Holder will race in semi-final 3. Holder ran a personal best (44.53) in his heat and finished third to qualify for the semi-final.
3:57am: Women’s Hammer Throw (Final 🥇)
No Aussies in this event. The top two qualifiers were Canada’s Camryn Rogers and Finland’s Krista Tervo. Poland’s Anita Włodarczyk won gold in Rio and Tokyo.
4:15am: Men’s Long Jump (Final 🥇)
No Aussies in this event. Miltiádis Tentóglou from Greece is the defending Olympic champion and favourite to win the event.
4:50am: Men’s 1500m (Final 🥇)
No Aussies in this event but the race between Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Great Britain’s Josh Kerr is set to be an absolute thriller. Watch out for American Cole Hocker too.
5:40am: Women’s 200m (Final 🥇)
American Gabby Thomas was the fastest qualifier for the 200m by a matter of milliseconds. Saint Lucian runner Julien Alfred will be looking to add another gold to her Paris haul after winning the 100m earlier this week.
