Day 13 Paris 2024 Olympics: Australia’s golden Paris

8 August 2024: Paris 2024 is Australia’s most successful Olympics for gold medals.

The Australian Paris 2024 Olympic team made history yesterday. In Paris, the Australian gold medal tally is their best ever.

Australia’s tally of 18 gold medals is now the country’s most successful Olympics feat – and there are still opportunities for more gold in the next 3 days of competition.

On Wednesday 7 August 2024, Australia made history with its biggest medal count in a single day in its Olympic competitions with 6 medals – 4 gold and 2 bronze. This added to their total medal count of 41 medals – 18 gold, 12 silver and 11 bronze.

Nina Kennedy’s gold medal for the women’s vault put Australia into the golden history book. She also became the first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the pole vault (also known as pole jumping).

Yesterday, on 8 August, Australians added more gold to tally 18 gold, 14 silver, and 13 bronze medals to make 45 medals in total, placing the Australians third on the country gold medal leading board behind United States on 103 medals and China on 73 medals.

Previously, the record gold medal tally was 17 gold in Athens 2004 (17 gold, 16 silver, and 17 bronze to total 50 medals) and Tokyo 2020 (17 gold, 7 silver, and 22 bronze to total 46 medals).

For the total of all medals, Australia’s best is the Sydney 2000 Olympics with 16 gold, 25 silver, and 17 bronze to total 58 medals.

So far, Australians contributing the most to the historic haul at Paris 2024 is the 41-member swimming team (21 men and 20 women) with 7 gold, 8 silver, and 3 bronze to total 18 medals. This is not surprising as the Australian swimming team is noted for producing the most Australian medals at each Olympic Games throughout history.

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