Tokyo 2020: Australia’s best medal hopes at the Olympic Games

Australia has sent its greatest at any time staff to an overseas Olympics and is hoping it success in a large medal haul.

The Australian Olympic staff could be on the verge of something exclusive at the Tokyo Olympics. Practically 500 Aussie athletes have experienced to wait an excess 12 months for these Games. Now that they’re below, it truly is time to believe about medals.

With communicate of a file haul from the pool, you can find every purpose to tune in and make confident you will not overlook a moment of the 2021 Games.

When do the Tokyo Olympics commence?

Delayed a entire 364 days due to the pandemic, the Games burst into existence with the opening ceremony on Friday 23 July. Level of competition unfolds every day until eventually the closing ceremony on Sunday 8 August. To preserve you completely up to velocity, we have a guidebook to looking at the opening ceremony, additionally a entire guidebook to all factors Olympic Games 2021.

Australia’s staff for the Tokyo Olympics

Australia has named a staff of 488 athletes, comprising of 261 gals and 227 adult males. The staff consists of 307 Olympic debutants. It truly is the greatest Australian staff at any time sent to an overseas Olympics.

Australia completed a disappointing tenth in the medal table at the past Summer time Olympics in Rio in 2016, grabbing 8 gold, eleven silver and ten bronze. Considering that then Australia’s Olympic committee declared it would no longer make medal projections. So we are left to occur up with it ourselves. The Usa topped the table in Rio with 46 gold, 37 silver and 38 bronze medals.

Australia’s best medal hopes at Tokyo 2020

Australia’s swimmers sent a information to the entire world at the Olympic trials in Adelaide in June as 1 entire world file, four Commonwealth documents and five Australian documents were set throughout a scorching meet.

Australian swimmers are ranked amount 1 in at least thirteen activities at this meet. Some forecasts have Australia pulling 23 medals out of the pool, a major leap from the ten claimed in Rio, five of which came in relay activities. We consider a closer glimpse at Australia’s swimming staff below.

On the monitor our best hopes are in each the men’s and women’s 1,500m and the strolling activities – the adult males and gals are each potent there. In area activities, glimpse no even more than present entire world javelin champion Kelsey-Lee Barber. Substantial jumper Brandon Starc has also strike sort in advance of the Games, location a mark of 2.33m at a meet in Italy just lately, the equivalent fourth optimum leap in the entire world this 12 months.

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Ash Barty qualified prospects Australia’s tennis charge. She ought to be a key opportunity specified the sensational sort she showed in using out her initial Wimbledon crown before this thirty day period.

Our men’s basketball staff, which defeat the star-studded Usa in a heat-up video game just lately, is a excellent opportunity for a medal, most likely even gold. Our women’s staff, the Opals, confront a challenging event after the reduction of Liz Cambage, but are continue to in the gold medal mix.

Rated fifth in the entire world, seashore volleyballers Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Photo voltaic have properly trained challenging in Europe and are a opportunity for a medal in Tokyo.

In biking, previous entire world champion Rohan Dennis heads the charge on the monitor and will be a great opportunity of a medal – even gold – in the time demo. On the road, Aussie excellent Richie Porte – contemporary off the Tour de France – is our best opportunity. BMX entire world champion Logan Martin could be among 2 or three medallists in that discipline. Martin is favoured to earn gold. And in mountain bikes, Bac McConnell is ranked 3rd in the entire world.

Australia’s hockey possibilities are also potent. The adult males are ranked 1 in the entire world, the gals 2, in a activity Australia enjoys a very long and amazing Olympic historical past.

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The Matildas are a good medal opportunity in soccer irrespective of a much less than stellar build-up to the Games underneath new mentor Tony Gustavsson. You will find a opportunity of as quite a few as three, most likely four medals in canoeing led by Jess Fox. Cameron Smith is also a medal opportunity in golfing.

Australia won 2 golds, three silvers and three bronze medals in the past World Rowing Championships in 2019 and has brought a pretty potent staff to Tokyo.

Sally Fitzgibbons and Stephanie Gilmore could battle it out for gold in browsing. Australia is also a great opportunity in boxing, rugby 7s, sailing, skateboarding and could pull off a surprise in triathlon.

Our shooters, James Willett and Laetisha Scanlan are considered genuine gold medal contenders in the combined staff entice. Placing all of these entire world-course competition together, it truly is no surprise you can find higher optimism of a successful fortnight in Tokyo.