23 GOLD MEDALS TO BE DECIDED ON DAY 13 – ALL LIVE ON FOXTEL
ATHLETICS *GOLD MEDAL EVENTS*
First session: Thursday August 9 from 5.55pm AEST – live on LONDON 4 & 5
Men’s 4x400m relay: Cole, Offereins, Milburn, Solomon, Steffensen, Thomas (qualifying)
Women’s High Jump (qualifying)
Second session: Friday August 10 from 3.25am AEST – live on LONDON 4, 5 & 6
Women’s 800m (semi-finals)
Men’s triple jump: Henry Frayne (final)
Men’s 800m (final)
Men’s 200m (final)
Women’s Javelin: Kimberly Mickle, Kathryn Mitchell (final)
Men’s Decathlon (final)
More big guns are on show in the Olympic Stadium with Usain Bolt primed to smash the field – and the world record – in the men’s 200m. Aussies hopes lie with – Jeff Riseley (men’s 800m), who will find it tough work against world champion and world record-holder Kenya’s David Rudisha; Kim Mickle and Katherine Mitchell (women’s javelin) who will be measured against the defending champion and world record-holder Czech Republic’s Barbora Spotakova and current world champion Mariya Abakumova; Henry Frayne (triple jump), who will take on local hope Phillips Idowu and American Christian Taylor. The men’s decathlon comes to a close, with new world record holder Ashton Eaton (USA) expected to battle it out with Germany’s Pascal Behrenbruch.
CANOE SPRINT *GOLD MEDAL EVENTS*
Thursday August 9 at 6.25pm AEST – live on LONDON 7
Men’s kayak four (K4): Murray Stewart, Jacob Clear, David Smith & Tate Smith (final)
Men’s canoe double (C2): Jake Donaghey & Alex Haas (final)
Women’s kayak single (K1): Alana Nicholls (final)
Women’s kayak double (K2): Naomi Flood & Lyndsie Fogarty (final)
The K4 1000m team of Stewart, Jacob Clear, David Smith and Tate Smith won a silver medal at last year’s World Championships. Australia will be a good chance for the gold if the team can overcome the German crew that won gold at the World titles.
The women’s team includes Naomi Flood, who will partner Lyndsie Fogarty in the K2 500m after making the jump from surf lifesaving to kayaking, Rachel Lovell (K4 500m) who will compete for Australia after previously representing Britain, and Jo Brigden-Jones (K4 500m) who is returning from a serious shoulder injury to compete in London.
SAILING *GOLD MEDAL EVENT*
Thursday August 9 at 9.45pm AEST – live on LONDON 8
Men’s 470: Malcolm Page & Mathew Belcher (medal race)
Multiple World Champion 470 racers Malcolm Page and Mathew Belcher aim for Gold. Page, who won Gold in Beijing with then partner Nathan Wilmot, is aiming to become the first Australian sailor to successfully defend an Olympic title.
SWIMMING: Women’s Marathon 10km *GOLD MEDAL EVENT*
Thursday August 9 at 8.55pm AEST – live on LONDON 1
Melissa Gorman (final)
The women’s 10km open water swim is the lunchtime attraction at The Serpentine in Hyde Park where reigning world champion and Beijing silver medallist Keri-Anne Payne will be heavily backed for a medal for the host nation. Australia’s Melissa Gorman should also be up there at the finish
BASKETBALL: Women’s semi-final
Semi final 1: Friday August 10 at 1.50am AEST – live on LONDON 3
Semi final 2: Friday August 10 at 5.50am AEST – live on LONDON 1
The Opals should get a berth in today’s semi-finals, but it will be tough from here. Many pundits have taken it for granted that they will clash with the Americans in the final, but don’t forget the upset from the 2006 World Championships that saw the Russians beat the US at the semi stage.
Other events to watch out for:
EQUESTRIAN
Thursday August 9 at 9.20pm AEST – live on LONDON 6
Dressage individual: Lyndal Oatley, Kristy Oatley & Mary Hanna (finals)
CYCLING: BMX Track Men’s Quarterfinals
Thursday August 9 at 11.55pm AEST – live on LONDON 2
Men’s: Sam Willoughby, Brian Kirkham, Khalen Young (quarter-finals)
BOXING: Women’s Final *GOLD MEDAL EVENT*
Friday August 10 at 1.25am AEST – live on LONDON 1
DIVING *GOLD MEDAL EVENT*
Friday August 10 at 3.55am AEST – live on LONDON 1
Women’s 10m platform: Brittany Broben, Melissa Wu (semi-final>final)
BEACH VOLLEYBALL: Final *GOLD MEDAL EVENT*
Friday August 10 at 5.55am AEST – live on LONDON 7
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