All the Australian Olympic medals won at Paris 2024

With 477 athletes, 42 participating sports, 329 events, there's no telling just how many medals the third largest team at the Olympics will rack up in Paris. Here, we tally them all

By Tyler Dane Wingco

Published: Aug 12, 2024

SPORT IN AUSTRALIA isn’t just a pastime – it’s a major source of cultural pride, playing a big part in our national identity. It’s part of our everyday lives, but every four years, we get to lean into our inner Dean Boxall, cheering like true patriots, with the Olympics giving our athletes a chance to show just how competent we are. It’s true: nothing unites Australia quite like watching Sam Kerr celebrate a goal with a backflip, or watching our most decorated athletes dominate the swimming podium – because let’s be honest, the Aussies clean up in the pool.

For some numbers: Australians have been competing in every modern Summer Olympics since the very first in Athens in 1896, and have remained in the top ten medal-winners ever since. This year, Team Australia represents five per cent of the total 11,000 competing athletes, a sizeable chunk of 477 after Team USA and France. And qualifying for 42 of the 45 sports in the Olympic programme – this year, fencing, handball (send Kevin Rudd to Los Angeles 2028), and volleyball are without an Aussie presence – in 329 events altogether, there’s really no limit to just how many medals we can win. Our colours are green and gold, after all.

Scroll on as we tally all the Olympic medals won by our athletes.

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Matthew Richardson and Matthew Glaetzer

Sport: Cycling, men’s keirin

Medals: Silver and bronze

A pair of Matthews claimed Australia’s final medals of the 2024 Olympics. Richardson was neck and neck with gold medallist Harrie Lavreyson down the home stretch and was unlucky to miss gold. Glatezer on the other hand was the beneficiary of his own Steven Bradbury moment, with the riders in positions 3-5 crashing out on the final turn, clearing the way for the Aussie to claim bronze.

Team Australia

Sport: Women’s basketball

Medal: Bronze

The Opals successfully turned their tournament around after a shock loss to Nigeria in the opening game. The team tallied four wins to only one loss – at the hands of the formidable Team USA no less – since then, culminating with a win over Belgium to secure their first Olympic medal since 2012. Ezi Magbegor put up a crazy statline that included 30 points, 13 rebounds, 3 blocks and 2 steals to seal the victory.

Jessica Hull

Sport: Athletics, women’s 1500m

Medal: Silver

Jess Hull set the fifth fastest ever time in the 1500m just last month and followed it up with her second best time in the Olympic final. Unfortunately for her, the woman with the fastest ever time was also in the race. Silver is about as much as you can hope for in those situations.

Team Australia

Sport: Women’s water polo

Medal: Silver

The Stingers were never supposed to get as far as they did. Ranked sixth in the world heading into the Games, the Stingers defeated fourth-ranked Hungary, the second-ranked Netherlands and the third-ranked USA on their way to winning their first Olympic medal since 2012.

Matthew Richardson

Sport: Cycling, men’s sprint

Medal: Silver

Cementing his status as one the world’s premier track cyclists, Matthew Richardson made it all the way to the final of the men’s sprint, only narrowly missing out on gold.

Maddison Keeney

Sport: Diving, women’s 3m springboard

Medal: Silver

Maddi Keeney won her first Olympic medal in the 3-metre synchro event at Rio 2016. Eight years later, she has her second – and first in an individual event.

Tom Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen

Sport: Canoe sprint, men’s K2 500m

Medal: Bronze

Aussie paddlers Tom Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen – who we’re dubbing ‘Green and Jean’ – won gold in this event back in Tokyo 2020, when the distance was 1000 metres. The shortening of the race by 500 metres proved too much to overcome for the duo, who still managed bronze.

Caitlin Parker

Sport: Boxing – Women’s 75kg

Medal: Bronze

Caitlin Parker was knocked out in the semifinal stage of the women’s heavyweight boxing division, but courtesy of boxing’s unique medal rules, she won’t have to fight for bronze and has already been awarded a medal. In boxing, there is no bronze medal match, as the combat sport is dangerous and organisers want to avoid any unnecessary injuries. We’re not complaining with the result.

Charlie Senior

Sport: Boxing – Men’s 57kg

Medal: Bronze

Like Caitlin Parker, Charlie Senior was knocked out in the semifinal stage of his boxing competition. Also like Parker, Senior claimed bronze just by making it to the semifinals and won’t have to face off for the third place honours.

Team Australia

Sport: Canoe sprint – Men’s K4

Medal: Silver

The men’s K4 team came oh-so-close to stealing gold away from the German team, bearing down on their rivals over the last 250 metres to finish second by only 0.04 seconds.

Moesha Johnson

Sport: Swimming – Women’s 10km

Medal: Silver

Yes, they really did make swimmers go back into the Seine. Even after a number of E. Coli infections earlier in the week. Moesha Johnson didn’t let the risk of sickness hold her back though. She led for most of the two-hour race before being passed down the home stretch. She still did enough to claim silver.

Keegan Palmer

Sport: Skateboarding – Men’s park

Medal: Gold

Day 12 of the Paris Olympics marks Australia’s most successful day at the international event, totalling six medals won (four golds, two bronzes). One of the golds now belongs to Keegan Palmer, 21, who can now count himself as Australia’s first back-to-back gold medallist for the sport (Palmer won his first at the inaugural event in Tokyo 2021). An Aussie sweep of the sport is certainly underway as Palmer joins Arisa Trew, who became the youngest Australian gold medalist in the women’s park the day before.

Team Australia

Sport: Cycling Track – Men’s team pursuit

Medal: Gold

Oliver Bleddyn, Sam Welsford, Conor Leahy, Kelland O’Brien claimed gold for Australia in the men’s pursuit. The win came with a celebration of disbelief for the riders, after the team at the Tokyo Olympics suffered an equipment malfunction. But Australia is back on top, also setting a new record with an average speed of 65 kilometres per hour.

Matt Wearn

Sport: Sailing – Men’s dinghy

Medal: Gold

Manoeuvring through the winds of Marseille, Western Australian Matt Wearn, 28, became the first back-to-back Olympic champion for men’s dinghy.

Nina Kennedy

Sport: Athletics – Women’s pole vault

Medal: Gold

Just as pole vault events have been copping some of the jokes at this year’s Games (you know the one), it was Australia’s Nina Kennedy who put a triumphant face to it with a gold.

Matthew Denny

Sport: Athletics – Men’s discus throw

Medal: Bronze

Here’s another for the history books: Queenslander Matthew Denny just became the first Australian to win an Olympic medal in men’s discus. Denny’s winning throw measured 69.31 metres, while Jamaica’s Roje Stona won gold for 70 metres.

Rhydian Cowley and Jemima Montag

Sport: Athletics – Mixed marathon race walk relay

Medal: Bronze

Making their mark in the inaugural Olympic marathon race, duo Rhydian Cowley and Jemima Montag claimed bronze in the mixed relay. In a track laid out in front of the Eiffel Tower, Montag, 26, secured their place on the podium during the last leg, clocking at two hours, 51 minutes and 38 seconds.

Arisa Trew

Sport: Skateboarding – Women’s park

Medal: Gold

In the skatepark-converted Place de la Concorde, Cairns-native Arisa Trew is now the youngest Australian Olympic medallist. Winning gold in the women’s park event for skateboarding, Trew, at 14 and 86 days, has surpassed Sandra Morgan (then at 14 years and 183 days) who won gold in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics for swimming.

Jack Robinson

Sport: Surfing – Men’s event

Medal: Silver

In a distant reef 16,000 kilomtres away from Paris, Margaret River-raised Jack Robinson won silver in Taihiti, missing out on the top bill from local Kauli Vaast. Robinson’s win in the showpiece final comes after beating Brazil’s three-time world champ Gabriel Medina.

Team Australia

Sport: Cycling Track – Men’s team sprint

Medal: Bronze

Matthew Glaetzer, Leigh Hoffman and Matthew Richardson took home bronze in the men’s team sprint in cycling, coming after Team Great Britain in silver and Netherlands in gold.

Noemie Fox

Sport: Canoe Slalom – Women’s kayak cross

Medal: Gold

It runs in the family. Noemie Fox joins her older sister Jess Fox among the Aussies winning gold in the Olympics. A heartwarming victory, coach-cum-boyfriend Titouan Dupras and the elder Fox leaped into the water, fully clothed, to celebrate the win.

Nicola Olyslagers

Sport: Athletics – women’s high jump

Medal: Silver

Olyslagers was able to match her silver medal-winning effort from the Tokyo Olympics with another piece of silverware in Paris. Despite falling short of gold, Olyslagers and her compatriot Eleanor Patterson became the first Australian duo to medal in the same track and field event since 1968.

Eleanor Patterson

Sport: Athletics – women’s high jump

Medal: Bronze

A rarity at the Olympics, Eleanor Patterson shared her bronze medal with Ukrainian jumper Iryna Gerashchenko after the pair finished with the exact same record and best attempt across the high jump final.

Team Australia

Sport: Swimming – women’s 4x100m medley relay

Medal: Silver

The USA broke the world record in this event, so no one was going to come close to them, but Australia was the best of the rest. The team comprised of gold medal winners Kaylee McKeown, Mollie O’Callaghan, Emma McKeon and first-time medallist Jenna Strauch close out an impressive showing in the pool for Australia.

Meg Harris

Sport: Swimming – women’s 50m freestyle

Medal: Silver

She’s been a key member of the gold medal-winning 4x100m freestyle relay teams at the last two Olympics, but Meg Harris finally had her own time to shine in the 50m freestyle, taking out silver in a tightly contested final.

Team Australia

Sport: Swimming – mixed 4x100m medley relay

Medal: Bronze

In one of the most exciting and strategic swimming events to watch, the Australian mixed medley relay team comprising Matt Temple, Joshua Yong, Kaylee McKeown and Mollie O’Callaghan won bronze.

Ariarne Titmus

Sport: Swimming – women’s 800m freestyle

Medal: Silver

It was always going to be difficult to dethrone Katie Ledecky in one of her most dominant events, but Ariarne Titmus stuck with her American rival for most of the race before Ledecky kicked up a gear and charged home. Titmus swam a personal best and couldn’t have asked for a much better swim.

Kaylee McKeown

Sport: Swimming – women’s 200m individual medley

Medal: Bronze

Courtesy of the original bronze medal winner being disqualified after the race, Kaylee McKeown won her third individual medal of the Paris Olympics. She’s quickly becoming one of Australia’s most successful Olympians.

Grae Morris

Sport: Sailing – men’s windsurfing

Medal: Silver

Not only is Grae Morris the first Australian to win a medal in windsurfing since 1996, he’s the first Australian men’s windsurfer to compete at the Olympics since 2004. For the last 20 years, Australia hasn’t produced the greatest windsurfing stock, but Morris has changed that. After taking out silver in the final, he told reporters he’d be rewarding himself with a “Big dinner, good dessert and a great sleep.”

Matt Ebden and John Peers

Sport: Tennis – men’s doubles

Medal: Gold

Remember on day one of the Paris Olympics when Matt Ebden was called in at the last second to face Novak Djokovic in the singles, only to be thoroughly demolished 6-0, 6-1? Well, that guy’s an Olympic gold medallist now. Doubles was always Ebden’s strong suit, and in partnering with John Peers, the Aussies managed to come from a set down in the gold medal match to take the top honour.

Saya Sakakibara

Sport: Women’s BMX racing

Medal: Gold

Saya Sakakibara almost won a medal at the Tokyo Olympics, but a scary crash while leading in the semifinals ended that hope and ushered in a lengthy period of recovery. Now Sakakibara has completed her comeback, winning all seven races she competed in on her way to taking out gold with ease.

Kaylee McKeown

Sport: Swimming – women’s 200m backstroke

Medal: Gold

Backing up her gold medal in the 100m backstroke, Kaylee McKeown pulled off the double-double. For the uninitiated, that means she won gold in both the 100m and 200m backstroke at consecutive Olympics, something no other female swimmer has ever accomplished.

Cam McEvoy

Sport: Swimming – men’s 50m freestyle

Medal: Gold

Three years ago at the Tokyo Games, Cam McEvoy crashed out in the heats and looked set to finish his career without a gold medal. He then radically changed his training regime and has now become an Olympic champion at age 30.

Team Australia

Sport: Swimming – women’s 4x200m freestyle relay

Medal: Gold

If there was a single event that was never in any doubt at Paris 2024, it was the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay. With 200m freestyle gold medallist Mollie O’Callaghan opening the relay and silver medallist Ariarne Titmus closing it, Australia possessed the two fastest swimmers in the distance and cruised to victory, nearly breaking a world record in the process.

Jemima Montag

Sport: Women’s 20km race walk

Medal: Bronze

In a sport that is often joked about for looking a little silly and having a seemingly low barrier of entry, Jemima Montag won bronze. You might think race walking isn’t the most difficult race on the Olympic program, but that statement couldn’t be further from the truth. Montag maintained a pace just below four minutes per kilometre throughout the race. Many people can’t even run that fast.

Kyle Chalmers

Sport: Swimming – Men’s 100m freestyle

Medal: Silver

Kyle Chalmers’ silver win in the men’s freestyle final may have just secured his place among Australia’s swimming greats. Not that he needed more boosting to his profile, Chalmers won gold in Rio 2016 and silver in Tokyo 2021, making Paris his third consecutive ascension to the podium for the same event. Coming behind China’s Pan Zhanle, Chalmers, 26, clocked in at 47.48 seconds.

Zac Subblety-Cook

Sport: Swimming – Men’s 200m breaststroke

Medal: Silver

When it comes to the pool, Aussies dominate. But as the swimming events come to a close, prospects for even more gold dry up. Renowned for his faster final legs, Zac Subblety-Cook managed to claim silver under a second behind French favourite Leon Marchand.

Jessica Fox

Sport: Canoe Slalom – Women’s canoe single

Medal: Gold

Claiming her second gold in Paris, it was also Jessica Fox’s second consecutive C1 gold after ascending to the top step for the first time in Tokyo three years ago.

Penny Smith

Sport: Shooting – Women’s trap

Medal: Bronze

Shooting has been the talk of the Village when it comes to athlete aura. Perhaps none defined it better than Penny Smith winning bronze in the women’s trap.

Natalya Diehm

Sport: BMX Freestyle Cycling – Women’s

Medal: Bronze

History was made here. Natalya Diehm is the first Australian woman to win a medal in the Olympic BMX freestyle with a bronze. Diehm is also the first Aussie woman to win a medal in an international event for the sport.

Team Australia

Sport: Swimming – Men’s 4x200m freestyle relay

Medal: Bronze

Maximilian Giuliani, Flynn Southam, Elijah Winnington, and Thomas Neill won Australia’s first bronze in the freestyle final behind Team USA (silver) and Great Britain (gold).

Kaylee McKeown

Sport: Swimming – Women’s 100m backstroke

Medal: Gold

Defending her 100m backstroke Olympic title, Kaylee McKeown, 23, won Australia’s sixth gold. McKeown paid tribute to her late father with the win, “I like to think I have a super power and that’s my dad,” she said at the podium. “I believe he was with me tonight.”

Mollie O’Callaghan

Sport: Swimming – Women’s 200m freestyle

Medal: Gold

Clocking in at one minute and 53.27 seconds, Mollie O’Callaghan came out on top, beating fellow Aussie Ariarne Titmus and Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey in the 200m final. O’Callaghan, 20, will be adding her first individual gold medal to her three other relay golds – two won in Tokyo, and the other in Paris earlier in the week.

Ariarne Titmus

Sport: Swimming – Women’s 200m freestyle

Medal: Silver

Winning gold at the 400m freestyle earlier this week, it’s at the 200m event where Ariarne Titmus placed her bid to become the only swimmer in history to hold both Olympic titles. Alas, she came in second to Mollie O’Callaghan, but to ease the blow, there’s no greater feeling than standing on the podium next to a fellow Aussie.

Christopher Burton

Sport: Equestrian – Eventing individual jumping

Medal: Silver

Held at Chauteu de Versailles (a majestic backdrop), Queensland-born equestrian Christopher Burton won silver, and on a borrowed horse, at that.

Jessica Fox

Sport: Canoe Slalom – Women’s kayak single

Medal: Gold

Four-time Olympian Jessica Fox won her second elusive gold in Paris clocking in at 92.18 seconds. Not that she needs any more seals of approval as one of her sport’s modern greats, Fox, 30, was tasked as flag-bearer during the glorious Opening Ceremony.

Team Australia

Sport: Swimming – Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay

Medal: Gold

Shayna Jack, Mollie O’Callaghan, Meg Harris and Emma McKeon won gold for Australia in the 100m freestyle relay, clocking in at three minutes and 28.92 seconds, beating Team USA and China. McKeon, who swam the third leg, is Australia’s most decorated Olympic medallist with six gold, two silver and four bronze won over three Olympic Games.

Team Australia

Sport: Swimming – Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay

Medal: Silver

Finishing at three minutes and 10.35 seconds, Jack Cartwright, Flynn Southam, Kai Taylor and Kyle Chalmers placed second behind Team USA. A marquee event in the programme, it was Chalmers’ monstrous final leg that secured the boys their place on the podium.

Ariarne Titmus

Sport: Swimming – Women’s 400m freestyle

Medal: Gold

Middle-distance swim star Ariarne Titmus has been the world’s undefeated women’s 400m freestyle champion since the 2019 world championships. Titmus won Australia’s first swimming gold on the opening evening, beating Team Canada’s Summer McIntosh and USA’s Katie Ledecky, her biggest rival.

Elijah Winnington

Sport: Swimming – Men’s 400m freestyle

Medal: Silver

Although mired in coaching controversy before the highly contended event, Elijah Winnington won Australia’s first swimming medal in Paris with a silver. Team Germany’s Lukas Märtens took gold that night, while South Korea’s Kim Woo-Min won bronze.