DAY 12 RECAP
AUGUST 7-8
Olympics Daily with Tara Rushton
Live & Exclusive on Stan Sport 7:00am AEST Daily
Paris Preview with Adam Peacock
Live & Exclusive on Stan Sport 8:30am AEST Daily
Experts in studio on today's shows:
- Shane Heal (Basketball)
- Nova Peris (Athletics)
- Elise Kellond-Knight (Football)
- Stuart O'Grady (Cycling)
- Jamie Dwyer (Hockey)
- Geoff Ogilvy (Golf)
- Michael Zerafa (Boxing)
Live from Paris on today's shows:
- Stan Sport catches up with a cast of stars in Paris today, including Aussies Jess Fox (Canoe Slalom), Eleanor Patterson (Athletics) and Jordan Wood (Canoe Sprint), while also chatting with Thomas Rohler (Athletics, GER), Benson Kipruto (Athletics, KEN) and Tommie Smith (Athletics, USA).
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Information up to date as of 6:30am AEST
AUSSIES IN ACTION
.jpg "Nina Kennedy flew highest of all to claim Pole Vault Gold.")
Athletics
- World Champion Nina Kennedy survived a lengthy delay to fix faulty equipment to outlast USA's Katie Moon to win the Women's Pole Vault. It is Australia's first-ever Gold in a Women's field event at the Games.
- Kennedy's win took Australia to a record-making 18 Gold medals at Paris 2024 with four more days of competition still remaining.
- Rhydian Cowley and Jemima Montag have won Bronze for Australia in the first-ever running of the Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay. (Clip here)
- Matt Denny broke through for his first Olympic medal with the popular thrower taking Bronze in the Men's Discus. It is Australia's first-ever medal in the event.
- Mackenzie Little (second) and Kathryn Mitchell (third) have both into the Women's Javelin Final after strong throws in qualification. For Mitchell, it is her fourth-straight Olympic Final at the age of 42.
Skateboarding
- Keegan Palmer has defended his Men's Park Gold Medal from Tokyo, setting down a 93.11 score in the first run of the final which could not be overhauled. It gives Australia a clean sweep of the Park events following Arisa Trew's Gold yesterday. (Clip here)
Track Cycling
- Australia won its first Men's Team Pursuit Olympic title since 2004, defeating Great Britain by more than two seconds in the Gold Medal Race. (Clip here)
- Matthew Richardson is in the mix for a medal in the Men's Sprint having progressed through to the Quarter-Finals. Richardson set a World Record in qualifying before it was bettered by 0.003 Harrie Lavreysen (NED).
- Kristina Clonan has qualified for the Women's Keirin Quarter-Finals.
Sailing
- Matt Wearn has defended his Olympic Gold medal after winning the Men's Dinghy Medal Race, even though seventh would have been good enough to win the competition.
Diving
- Maddison Keeney and Alysha Koloi are into Women's 3m Springboard Final, with Keeney producing an eye-catching series of dives to place second in the Preliminaries.
Canoe Sprint
- Alyce Wood (Women's K1 500) and Tom Green (Men's K1 1000) both performed strongly to move through to the Semi-Finals.
Basketball
- The Opals continue to build with every match, scoring an 85-67 victory over Serbia to power into the Semi-Finals where they will
Water Polo
- The Sharks have suffered a heart-breaking loss in the Men's Quarter-Finals, going down to USA after the scores were locked 7-all at full-time.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
.jpg "Spain won the first ever Mixed Walk Relay ahead of Ecuador and Australia.")
Athletics
- Quincy Hall (USA) staged a stunning finish to win the Men's 400m ahead of Matthew Hudson-Smith (GBR) and Muzala Samukonga (ZAM).
- Spain won the first-ever staging of the Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay ahead of Ecuador and Australia.
- Jamaica's Roje Stoner stunned the field to win the Men's Discus ahead of World Record holder Mykolas Alekna (LTU) and Matt Denny (AUS).
- Morocco's El Bakkali has won back-to-back 3000m Steeplechase Gold medals after edging out Kenneth Rooks (USA) and Abraham Kibiwot.
- Karsten Warholm (NOR) and Rai Benjamin (USA) are on track for a head-to-head battle for 400m Hurdles Gold after both moving through from the semis.
Golf
- France's Celine Boulter holds a three-shot lead after the opening round from South Africa's Ashleigh Buhai. Minjee Lee had the best round of the Australians, six shots back.
Track Cycling
- USA led from start to finish to win the Women's Team Pursuit ahead of New Zealand with Great Britain taking out the Bronze Medal Race over Italy.
Basketball
- Following Quarter-Final victories overnight, France will play Germany in one Semi-Final while the Opals await the winner of this morning's clash between USA and Nigeria.
Water Polo
- The Men's Quarter-Finals have decided who will fight for the medals with Serbia set to face USA and Croatia to take Hungary.
Hockey
- Netherlands will take on China in the Women's Hockey Gold Medal Match following their Semi-Final victories. The Dutch were never headed in a 3-0 win over Argentina while China needed a shootout to get past Belgium.
PLACE | COUNTRY | G | S | B | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | USA | 27 | 35 | 32 | 94 |
2nd | China | 25 | 23 | 17 | 65 |
3rd | Australia | 18 | 12 | 11 | 41 |
4th | France | 13 | 16 | 20 | 49 |
Information up to date as of 6:30am AEST
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August 7, 2024