Australians aim high as track and field medals beckon

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Australians aim high as track and field medals beckon

MAJOR *********** MEDAL HOPES ON DAY 9 AT THE PARIS OLYMPICS

* Australia has two genuine gold medal hopes in the women’s high jump in Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson.

* Time trial Olympic champion Grace Brown is back in action in the women’s road race along with Lauretta Hanson and Ruby Roseman-Gannon.

* Caitlin Parker has the opportunity to become the first female *********** boxer to win an Olympic medal with a quarter-final battle against Khadija Mardi of Morocco.

* Speed queens Shayna Jack and Meg Harris will try to match Cameron McEvoy’s gold medal effort in the 50m freestyle.

* Another gold medal is the target for the women’s 4 x 100m medley relay while the men have also reached the final but must stop the prince of Paris Leon Marchand to win gold.

OTHER MAJOR AUSTRALIANS ACTION

* The Kookaburras face a tough quarter-final clash with the Netherlands to keep alive their gold medal dream.

* The roof is expected to rise at Stade Pierre-Mauroy when the *********** women’s basketball team take on France looking to knock off the home side to top the pool.

* Tokyo beach volleyball silver medallists Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy take on unbeaten Brazilian big guns Carolina Solberg Salgado and Barbara Seixas De Freitas in the round of 16.

* At the track Reece Holder, 21, is up in the men’s 400m while fellow young guns Claudia Hollingsworth and Abbey Caldwell will represent in women’s 800m.

* Currently 10th, Jason Day has some work to do to catch the medal favourites in the final round of the men’s golf.

* The kayak cross continues with the Fox sisters, two-time Paris gold medallist Jessica, and Olympic debutant Noemie, the stars of the show.

* Tokyo champion Matt Wearne is the current leader in the men’s ILCA 7 class in Marseille while Breiana Whitehead kicks off her campaign in the women’s kitesurfing.

* Australia’s women’s water-polo team continue their medal quest in their final pool match against Hungary.

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING

* The gold is up for grabs in the men’s 100m final, with ********* world champion Noah Lyles the hot favourite.

* Sweden’s Truls Moregard will look to stop China’s dominance of table tennis, the first player from another country to appear in the men’s singles final since 2008.

* Likely playing in his last Olympics Novak Djokovic will take on Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz in the men’s singles gold medal match.

GOLD MEDALS UP FOR GRABS ON DAY 9: 20

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