Hull looks to make Australian history on the track
MAJOR AUSTRALIAN MEDAL HOPES ON DAY 15 AT THE PARIS OLYMPICS
* Middle-distance star Jessica Hull is daring to believe she can upset Kenya’s world record holder Faith Kipyegon in the highly-anticipated women’s 1500m final.
* The Stingers women’s water polo team face Spain in a title match as they seek Australia’s first Olympic gold in the event since the fabled 2000 triumph.
* Weightlifter Eileen Cikamatana is gunning for gold in the women’s 81kg category – she won Commonwealth Games gold for her native Fiji before repeating that feat for Australia two years ago.
* Diver Cassiel Rousseau will contest men’s 10m platform semi-finals and, hopefully, the final where he’s aiming to follow the feat of his grandfather Michel who won gold for France as a track cyclist in 1956.
*After winning bronze in the K2, sprint kayaker Tom Green will attempt to claim his third Olympic medal in the K1 1000m.
* Australia has two finalists in the women’s javelin, Kathryn Mitchell and in Mackenzie Little, who is a genuine medal chance.
OTHER AUSTRALIANS IN ACTION
* Victorian climber Oceania Mackenzie will make a play for a maiden Olympic medal in the boulder and lead event.
* After a sizzling third round 66, Hannah Green has roared up the leaderboard to a tie for 11th but still plenty of ground to catch the leaders who are six shots clear.
* Already gold medallists in cycling’s Team Pursuit, Kelland O’Brien and Sam Welsford will look to keep the medals ticking over at the track, squaring off in the Madison.
* Liam Adams, Andrew Buchanan and Patrick Tiernan will pound the Paris pavement in the men’s marathon.
* Australia wrestler Georgii Okorokov faces Puerto Rico’s Sebastian Rivera men’s 65kg 1/8 final.
* Jeff Dunne aka J Attack, aged just 16, will make his Olympic debut in the men’s breaking.
WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING
* Expect fireworks as host country France, led by phenom Victor Wembanyama, try to stop the USA winning a 17th gold medal in the men’s basketball.
* Can Italian world champion Gianmarco Gamberi defend his Olympic high jump title?
* Brazil and the USA will battle for gold in the women’s football final.
* After widespread scrutiny over gender tests Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting fights Julia Szeremeta of Poland for gold in the women’s featherweight division.
GOLD MEDALS UP FOR GRABS: 39
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