The Australian team will aim for new heights at the Paris 2024 Olympics to be held in France from July 26 to August 11.

The 33rd edition of the Games will see over 460 athletes of the Australian Olympic team in action in 42 out of 45 Olympic sports. As many as 35 venues will be used for the 329 medal events.

Paris 2024 officially gets underway with the Opening Ceremony on July 26 but competitions in football and rugby sevens will start from July 24.

The men’s rugby sevens team will be the first among the Australians to launch their Olympic campaign with a game against Samoa on July 24. The high-flying Matildas and Australian archers will start their journey on July 25.

Athletics will see the largest representation for Australia with 86 athletes competing – the biggest Australian athletics squad in the history of the Games.

The squad includes three medallists from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Silver medallist high jumper Nicola Olyslager, decathlon bronze winner Ash Moloney and Kelsey-Lee Barber, who won the women’s javelin throw bronze medal at Tokyo 2020.

At Paris 2024, athletics events, including race walking and marathons, will be held from August 1 to 11.

Several events have been scheduled to start on the following day of the Opening Ceremony.

Australia Paris 2024 team for swimming, the sport which has yielded the most medals for the country at the Olympics to date, will be in action from July 27 to August 10.

A total of 45 Australian swimmers – 41 for pool and four for marathons – have been named in the squad. Olympic gold medallists Emma McKeon, Kaylee McKeown and Ariarne Titmus will be some of the top names in action.

Jessica Fox, who will return to Paris 2024 in a bid to secure her fifth Olympic medal, will compete in the women’s kayak single, cross and canoe single events. The canoe slalom competitions will be held from July 27 to August 5.

Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Harry Garside will lead the 12-member Australian boxing team, also from July 27.

Meanwhile, Logan Martin will look to defend his BMX freestyle crown on July 31. Track cycling, one of Australia’s strong fortes, will commence on August 6.

Two-time Olympic medallist Alexander Hill will headline the 37-member Australian rowing team in Paris. The Rowsellas will compete in nine medal events from July 27 to August 3.

The Kookaburras, who missed out on gold after losing to Belgium in the final three years ago, are in Pool B and will open the campaign against Argentina on July 27. The Boomers, meanwhile, will start in Pool A against Serbia on the same day.

At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Australian men’s basketball team, led by Patty Mills, broke their 65-year medal drought by claiming the bronze medal.

The 51-year-old equestrian Shane Rose, the oldest member of the 2024 Australian Olympic team, will be in action in the men’s eventing from July 27. Skateboarder Arisa Trew, the youngest Aussie at the Paris Olympics at just 14, will be seen in the women’s park event slated for August 6.

More than half of the Australian team at the Paris 2024 Olympics will be represented by women.

Paris 2024 Olympics Australia schedule