It’s a massive day for the Australians in Paris, with the women’s rugby sevens team facing Canada in a monster semi-final (midnight AEST). The winner will play the winner of the other semi-final (NZ vs US) for gold at 3.45am, after the bronze medal match at 3am AEST.
Elsewhere, Flagbearer Jessica Fox looks to add to her kayak (K-1) gold medal when she starts her gold medal defence in the C-1 (Canoe) class with two heats at 11pm and 1.10am AEST.
As always, there’s plenty of action in the pool, and we’ll have a separate live blog for all the action.
The Boomers are looking to make it two wins from two when they face a tricky Canada side at 9.30pm – which we’ll also cover in a separate live blog!
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Later on at 3.45am, the Aussie Kookaburras – our men’s hockey team – face Belgium in their third group stage game, after two wins so far. It’s a top-of-the-table clash in Group B and definitely one to watch after Belgium also won their first two matches.
Not only that, Belgium also defeated Australia in a dramatic penalty shootout in the gold medal match in Tokyo, and the Aussies lost both games against the European giants earlier this year – including another penalty shootout heartbreak.
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There’s an all-Aussie showdown in the surfing, with Ethan Ewing facing Jack Robinson in the quarter-finals at 3am and the winner potentially competing in a medal clash later in the morning. And the women’s surfing is also expected to resume after the third round was postponed yesterday.
However, there’s bad news for triathlon fans – and Aussie duo Matthew Hauser and Luke Willian. The men’s triathlon, which was set to start at 4pm AEST, has been postponed a day due to poor water quality in the Seine.
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FULL AUSSIE SCHEDULE
3×3 basketball
2am: Women’s pool round: Australia vs Canada
Badminton
10.50pm: Women’s doubles: Angela Yu and Setyana Mapasa vs Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa
Basketball
9.30pm: Men’s – Group A: Australia Boomers vs Canada
Beach volleyball
5pm: Men’s preliminary – Pool C: Thomas Hodges and Zachary Schubert vs Michal Bryl and Bartosz Losiak
Boxing
7.32pm: Men’s 51kg prelims – Rd of 16: Yusuf Chothia vs Rafael Lozano Serrano
12.18am: Men’s 80kg prelims – R16: Callum Peters vs Nurbek Oralbay
1.06am: Women’s 54kg prelims – R16: Tiana Echegaray vs Hatice Akbas
Canoe slalom
11pm, 1.10am: Women’s canoe single heats: Jessica Fox
12am, 2.10am: Men’s kayak single heats: Timothy Anderson
Cycling BMX freestyle
9.25pm: Women’s park qualification: Natalya Diehm
11.11pm: Men’s park qualification: Logan Martin
Equestrian
7pm: Dressage Grand Prix team and individual qualification Day 1: Jayden Brown (7.47pm)
Hockey
3.45am: Men’s – Pool B: Australia vs Belgium
Judo
6pm: Women’s -63kg elimination round of 32: Katharina Haecker vs Lucy Renshall
Rowing
5.30pm: Women’s single sculls quarter-finals: Tara Rigney
6.50pm: Women’s double sculls semi-finals: Amanda Bateman and Harriet Hudson
7.30pm Women’s four repechages: Olympia Aldersey, Jean Mitchell, Lily Alton and Molly Goodman
Rugby Sevens
12am: Women’s semi-final: Australia vs Canada
3am: Women’s bronze-medal match: potentially Australia
3.45am: Women’s gold medal match: potentially Australia
Sailing
8.05pm: Women’s skiff: Olivia Price and Evie Haseldine
8.13pm: Men’s windsurfing: Grae Morris
10.35am: Men’s skiff: Jim Colley and Shaun Connor
Shooting
5pm: Men’s trap qualification: James Willett, Mitchell Iles
5pm: Women’s trap qualification: Catherine Skinner, Penny Smith
Surfing
3am: Men’s quarter-finals: Ethan Ewing vs Jack Robinson
Semi-finals set for 7.48am and 8.24am, bronze medal match at 10.12am, gold medal match at 11.34am.
Women’s surfing R3 was postponed yesterday with no announcement yet as to the new competition schedule. We will update this when it comes through.
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Swimming
Heats
7pm: Men’s 200m butterfly heats: Matthew Temple
7.15pm: Men’s 100m freestyle heats: Kyle Chalmers, William Yang
7.44pm: Women’s 1500m freestyle heats: Lani Pallister, Moesha Johnson
8.39pm: Women’s 100m freestyle heats: Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack
8.51pm: Men’s 200m breaststroke heats: Zac Stubblety-Cook, Joshua Yong
9.08pm: Men’s 4x200m freestyle relay heats: Australia
Finals
4.30am: Men’s 100m freestyle semi-finals: Kyle Chalmers, William Yang (TBC)
4.42am: Men’s 200m butterfly semi-finals: Matthew Temple (TBC)
4.56am: Women’s 100m backstroke final: Kaylee McKeown, Iona Anderson
5.02am: Men’s 800m freestyle final: Elijah Winnington
5.25am: Women’s 100m freestyle semi-finals: Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack (TBC)
5.47am: Men’s 200m breaststroke semi-finals: Zac Stubblety-Cook, Joshua Yong (TBC)
6.01am: Men’s 4x200m freestyle relay final: Australia (TBC)
Tennis
8pm: Men’s singles second round: Alexei Popyrin vs Stan Wawrinka
9.30pm: Women’s doubles first round: Ajla Tomljanovic and Olivia Gadecki vs Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider
9.30pm: Mixed doubles first round: Matthew Ebden and John Peers vs Pablo Carreno Busta and Marcel Granollers
Triathlon
4pm: Men’s individual: Matthew Hauser, Luke Willian — POSTPONED
Water polo
6.30pm: Men’s preliminary round – Group B: Australia vs Serbia
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