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Tokyo Olympics: Aussies in action on day 9 and day 8 results

July 31, 2021 BY

Style and flair: Freestyle BMX park would champion Logan Martin will get his, and his sports, first taste of Olympic action today with seeding in the men’s and women’s events. Photo: BEN CURTIS/ AP

AUSTRALIA – 9 gold, 2 silver, 11 bronze

 

What’s on today?

TRIATHLON

Mixed Relay – Australia (two men and two women from Ashleigh Gentle, Jez Hedgeland, Emma Jeffcoat, Jake Birtwhistle, Matt Hauser and Aaron Royle) (0830 AEST)

 

ARCHERY

Men’s Individual Eliminations and Finals – 3rd Round – Taylor Worth v Mete Gazoz (Tur) (1022 AEST)

 

ATHLETICS

Women’s 400m Hurdles Round 1 (Sarah Carli); Women’s Discus Throw Qualifying Round (Dani Stevens); Men’s Pole Vault Qualifying Round (Kurtis Marschall); Men’s 800m Round 1 (Charlie Hunter, Jeffrey Riseley, Peter Bol); Women’s 100m Hurdles Qualifying Round (Liz Clay); Men’s 100m Preliminary Round; Men’s Long Jump Qualifying Round (Henry Frayne); Women’s 100m Semifinals; Men’s 100m Round 1 (Rohan Browning); Men’s Discus Throw Final (Matthew Denny); Women’s 800m Semifinals; Mixed 4 x 400m Relay Final; Women’s 100m Final

 

GOLF

Men’s Individual (Marc Leishman, Cameron Smith) (0830 AEST)

 

EQUESTRIAN

Eventing Dressage Team and Individual – Andrew Hoy (1046 AEST)

 

SWIMMING

Finals (1130 – 1340 AEST):

Men’s 100m Butterfly Final – Matthew Temple;

Women’s 200m Backstroke Final – Kaylee McKeown, Emily Seebohm;

Women’s 800m Freestyle Final – Kiah Melverton, Ariarne Titmus;

Women’s 50m Freestyle Semifinals – Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell;

Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final – Australia

 

CYCLING BMX FREESTYLE SEEDING

Women’s (Natalya Diehm) (1110 AEST) and Men’s (Logan Martin) (1210 AEST)

 

WATER POLO

Men’s Preliminaries; Group A – Australia v Spain (1230 AEST)

 

HOCKEY

Men’s and Women’s Pool Rounds; Women’s Pool B – Australia v Argentina (1245 AEST)

 

SHOOTING

Mixed Team Trap (Thomas Grice and Penny Smith, James Willett and Laetisha Scanlan) Qualification and Finals (1000 AEST), Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Katrina Kowplos) Qualification and Finals (1300 AEST)

 

TRAMPOLINE GYMNASTICS

Men’s Qualification and Final (Dominic Clarke) (1600 AEST)

 

RUGBY

Women’s Placing 5-8, Australia v ROC (1100 AEST), Tokyo Stadium

 

SAILING

Finn Men: Race 7-8 (Jake Lilley), Skiff 49er Men: Race 10-12 (Sam Phillips, Will Phillips), Skiff 49er FX Women Race 10-12 (Tess Lloyd, Jaime Ryan), Foiling Nacra 17 Mixed: Race 7-9 (Jason Waterhouse, Lisa Darmanin); RS:X Women and RS:X Men Medal Races

 

DIVING

Women’s 3m semi-final

(Anabelle Smith and Esther Qin) (1600AEST) Tokyo Aquatics Centre

 

TENNIS

Men’s Singles Bronze Match, Women’s Singles Finals, Women’s Doubles Bronze Match and Mixed Doubles Bronze Match – Ash Barty and John Peers v Novak Djokovic and Nina Stojanovic (Srb), Ariake Tennis Park

 

BASKETBALL

Men’s Preliminaries

Group B – Australia v German (1820 AEST)

 

BOXING

Men’s and Women’s Preliminaries Round of 16, Quarterfinals and Semifinals

Men’s Light – Harry Garside v Jonas Jonas (Nam) (1937 AEST)

 

How the Aussies fared on Day 8

 

How the Aussies fared on Day 8 of the Tokyo Olympics.

 

GOLF

Men’s Individual second round – Cameron Smith 20th, Marc Leishman 51st

 

ATHLETICS

Men’s High Jump Qualifying Round – Brandon Starc – advances to final

Men’s Discus Throw Qualifying Round – Matthew Denny – advances to final

Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Round 1 – Edward Trippas, Ben Buckingham, Matthew Clarke – all eliminated

Women’s 800m Round 1 – Catriona Bisset, Morgan Mitchell – both eliminated

Women’s 100m Round 1  – Hana Basic – eliminated

Women’s 5000m Round 1 – Isobel Batt-Doyle, Rose Davies – both eliminated

Men’s 10,000m Final – Pat Tiernan – 19th

 

SWIMMING

Men’s 100m Butterfly Semifinals – Matthew Temple – advances to final

Women’s 100m Freestyle Final – Emma McKeon – 1st, Cate Campbell – 3rd

Women’s 200m Backstroke Semifinals – Kaylee McKeown, Emily Seebohm – advance to final

Heats:

Men’s 50m Freestyle – Cameron McEvoy – eliminated

Women’s 50m Freestyle – Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell – advance to semi-finals (McKeon Olympic Record)

Men’s 1500m Freestyle – Jack McLoughlin, Thomas Neill – eliminated

Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay – advance to final

Men’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay – advance to final

 

SHOOTING

Women’s 25m Pistol Qualification – Elena Galiabovitch eliminated

 

ROWING

Women’s Eight Final – Australia 5th

Men’s Eight Final – Australia 6th

 

HOCKEY

Men’s Pool A – Australia drew with Spain 1-1

 

CYCLING BMX RACING

Women’s semifinals and final – Saya Sakakibara crashed in last semi round and finished 5th, Lauren Reynolds fifth in final

 

RUGBY

Women’s Pool Round – Australia lost to US 14-12.

Quarterfinals – Australia lost to Fiji 14-12

 

TRAMPOLINE GYMNASTICS

Women’s Qualification – Jessica Pickering eliminated

 

CANOE SLALOM

Kayak K1 Men’s Final – Lucien Delfour eighth

 

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

Women’s Preliminaries – Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy lost to Nadedza Makroguzova and Svetlana Kholomina (ROC) 21-8 15-21 15-12, through to round of 16

 

DIVING

Women’s 3m Preliminary – Esther Qin, Annabelle Smith – both advance to semi-finals

 

EQUESTRIAN

Eventing Dressage Team and Individual – Shane Rose 17th, Kevin McNabb 18th. Australia 10th

 

SAILING

Laser Men: Race 9-10 – Matt Wearn – 1st after 10 races

Laser Radial Women: Race 9-10 – Mara Stransky – 14th after 10 races

470 Men: Race 5-6 – Matthew Belcher, Will Ryan – 1st after six races

470 Women: Race 5-6 – Monique de Vries, Nia Jerwood – 15th after six races

Skiff 49er FX Women Race 7-9 – Tess Lloyd, Jaime Ryan – 11th after nine races

Skiff 49er Men: Race 7-9 – Sam Phillips, Will Phillips – 11th after nine races

 

TENNIS

Mixed Doubles Semifinals – Ash Barty and John Peers lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Andrey Rublev (ROC) 5-7 6-4 13-11, into bronze playoff

 

FOOTBALL

Women’s Group Quarterfinals – Australia bt Great Britain 4-3

 

WATER POLO

Women’s Preliminaries; Group A – Australia lost to Spain 15-9

 

BASKETBALL

Women’s Preliminaries Group C – Australia lost to China 76-74

 

-With AAP