The Paris Olympics are under way and Australia will be out to start with a bang as Ariarne Titmus, Sam Short and Elijah Winnington are among those to chase swimming medals. The Dolphins’ men and women will also renew each of their rivalries in the 4x100m freestyle relay events.
Grace Brown will hope to go at least one better after finishing fourth in the women’s individual time trial in Tokyo, while the Boomers face familiar foes Spain in their men’s basketball campaign and the Kookaburras kickstart their men’s hockey campaign.
Here are the Australians to watch on day one at Paris 2024 – all times AEST:
Artistic gymnastics
11.30pm: Men’s qualification: Jesse Moore
Badminton
3.30am: Women’s singles: Tiffany Ho v Beiwen Zhang
4.20am: Women’s doubles: Angela Yu and Setyana Mapasa v Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida
Basketball
7pm: Men’s – Group A: Australia Boomers v Spain
Beach volleyball
11pm: Men’s preliminary – Pool A: Izac Carracher and Mark Nicolaidis v David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig
2am: Women’s preliminary – Pool B: Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar v Chen Xue and Xinyi Xia
Canoe slalom
11pm, 1.10am: Men’s canoe single heats: Tristan Carter
12am, 2.10am: Women’s kayak single heats: Jessica Fox
Cycling road
10.30pm: Women’s individual time trial: Grace Brown
12.32am: Men’s individual time trial: Lucas Plapp
Diving
7pm: Women’s synchronised 3m springboard final: Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith
Equestrian
5.30pm: Eventing team dressage: Australia
5.30pm: Eventing individual dressage: Shane Rose, Kevin McNab, Christopher Burton
Hockey
9.15pm: Men’s – Pool B: Australia Kookaburras v Argentina
Judo
6pm: Men’s -60 kg elimination round of 32: Joshua Katz v Andrea Carlino
Rowing
6.12pm: Women’s single sculls heats: Tara Rigney
8pm: Women’s double sculls heats: Amanda Bateman and Harriet Hudson
8.50pm: Women’s quadruple sculls heats: Caitlin Cronin, Laura Gourley, Rowena Meredith and Ria Thompson
Rugby sevens
Shooting
8.30pm: Women’s 10m air pistol qualification: Elena Galiabovitch
Skateboarding
The men’s street skateboarding competition has been postponed due to the weather. A media centre representative said the surface of the street course was too slick due to persistent rain early on Saturday, making conditions unsafe.
Australia’s Shane O’Neill will instead compete in a rescheduled event on 29 July.
Surfing
3am: Men’s round one: Ethan Ewing, Jack Robinson
7.48am: Women’s round one: Molly Picklum, Tyler Wright
Swimming
7pm: Women’s 100m butterfly heats: Emma McKeon, Alexandria Perkins
7.12pm: Women’s 400m freestyle heats: Ariarne Titmus, Jamie Perkins
7.30pm: Men’s 100m breaststroke heats: Sam Williamson, Josh Yong
7.45pm: Men’s 400m freestyle heats: Sam Short, Elijah Winnington
8.15pm: Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats: Australia
8.26pm: Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats: Australia
4.30am: Women’s 100m butterfly semi-finals: Emma McKeon, Alexandria Perkins
4.42am: Men’s 400m freestyle final: Sam Short, Elijah Winnington
4.52am: Women’s 400m freestyle final: Ariarne Titmus, Jamie Perkins
5.12am: Men’s 100m breaststroke semi-finals: Josh Yong
5.34am: Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay final: Australia
5.44am: Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay final: Australia
Table tennis
12.30am: Mixed doubles round of 16: Nicholas Lum and Minhyung Jee v Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs
6.15am: Men’s singles round of 64: Finn Luu v Alberto Mino
Tennis
Heavy rain has delayed the start of play on the outside courts at Roland Garros.
8pm: Women’s singles first round: Daria Saville v Zheng Qinwen
From 8pm: Men’s singles first round: Matthew Ebden v Novak Djokovic, Rinky Hijikata v Daniil Medvedev
From 8pm: Women’s doubles first round: Daria Saville and Ellen Perez v Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula
Water polo
4.05am: Women’s preliminary round – Group A: Australia Stingers v China
