Australia’s Paris 2024 Olympics medal events schedule today, August 9: Clancy-del Solar, Westhuyzen-Green look to do a double
Australia’s Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar, the Tokyo 2020 women’s beach volleyball silver medallists, will have the opportunity to add another bronze to their tally from the Paris 2024 Olympics on Friday.
Clancy and del Solar who won Australia’s first-ever Olympic medal in beach volleyball at Tokyo 2020 failed to make their second successive final after losing to Brazil’s Ana Patricia Silva Ramos and Eduarda Santos Lisboa, aka Duda, in the semi-finals.
However, the Aussie team will have a run at the bronze when they face the Swiss team of Tanja Hueberli and Nina Brunner.
Tokyo 2020 men’s kayak double 1000m champions Jean van der Westhuyzen and Thomas Green, meanwhile, will be out to win a gold in the reclassified kayak double 500m canoe sprint event at Paris 2024.
Jayden Lawrence, meanwhile, will have a run at a men’s 86kg wrestling bronze, having made the repechage.
Rachael Gunn, aka B-Girl Raygun, will be making history as the first Australian breakdancer to compete at the Olympics. The B-Girl’s event at Paris 2024 will be held on Thursday.
Diver Maddison Keeney will look to add to her Rio 2016 3m synchronised bronze when she competes in the women’s 3m springboard final.
Aussie athletes will also have opportunities to add to Australia’s Paris 2024 Olympics medal tally in athletics, track cycling, marathon swimming, taekwondo and weightlifting.
Australian athletes will be involved in 14 medal events at Paris 2024 on Friday.
Australia’s Paris 2024 Olympics medal events schedule on August 9, Friday
Live start times, all in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
Athletics
- Medal event: Men’s triple jump final (Connor Murphy) - 4:13 AM
- Medal event: Women’s heptathlon 800m (Camryn Newton-Smith) - 4:25 AM
- Medal event: Women’s 10,000m final (Lauren Ryan) - 4:57 AM
Beach volleyball
- Medal event: Women’s bronze medal match: Taliqua Clancy/Mariafe Artacho del Solar vs Tanja Hueberli/Nina Brunner (Switzerland) - 5:00 AM
Breaking
- B-Girls event (Rachael Gunn) - 12:00 AM onwards (medal matches from 5:14 AM on August 10, Saturday)
Canoe sprint
- Men’s kayak double 500m semi-final 2 (Jean van der Westhuyzen/Tom Green) - 7:20 PM
- Medal event: Men’s kayak double 500m Final A (if qualified) - 9:30 PM
Cycling track
- Men’s sprint semi-finals (Matthew Richardson) - 10:41 PM onwards
- Medal event: Men’s sprint finals (if qualified) - 2:00 AM onwards
- Medal event: Women’s madison final (Alexandra Manly/Georgia Baker) - 2:09 AM
Diving
- Medal event: Women’s 3m springboard final (Maddison Keeney) - 11:00 PM
Marathon swimming
- Medal event: Men’s 10km (Kyle Lee, Nick Sloman) - 3:30 PM
Taekwondo
- Medal event Men -80kg (Leon Sejranovic) - 5:10 PM onwards (medal matches from 4:30 AM on August 10, Saturday)
Weightlifting
- Medal event: Men’s 89kg (Kyle Bruce) - 11:00 PM
- Medal event: Women’s 71kg (Jacqueline Nichele) - 3:30 AM
Wrestling
- Men’s 86kg repechage: Jayden Lawrence vs Dauren Kurugliev (Greece) - 7:00 PM onwards
- Medal event: Men’s 86kg bronze medal match (if qualified) - 4:05 AM