Australia’s basketball team will kick off their Olympic campaign on Saturday night (AEST), with the star-studded Boomers looking to push for a medal in Paris.

Josh Giddey, Patty Mills and Joe Ingles will all be in action for the side against Spain.

But the main attraction on Saturday will be the swimming, with the 400m women’s freestyle final expected to feature Ariarne Titmus going up against Katie Ledecky.

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The pair have been at the forefront of a huge rivalry in recent years and will do battle in the women’s event, while some male Aussie stars will also be in the pool.

Also on the agenda for day one will be the rugby sevens gold medal game, the men’s skateboarding final and the Kookaburras first game in the men’s hockey.

Canoe star Jess Fox is also in action on a packed day.

Here’s the full schedule for day 1. All times AEST.

Aussie athletes and teams are in bold.

Badminton

3.30am Tiffany Ho v Beiwen Zhang (USA) (women’s singles)

4.20am Angela Yu / Setyana Mapasa v Nami Matsuyama / Chiharu Shida (JPN) (women’s doubles)

Basketball (men’s)

Men’s: Four games starting at 7pm

• Group A – Australia vs Spain (7pm)

Beach volleyball

From 10pm

11pm Mark Nicolaidis / Izac Carracher (AUS) v David Ahman / Jonatan Hellvig (SWE)

2am Taliqua Clancy/Mariafe Artacho del Solar (AUS) v Chen Xue Chen / Xinyi Xia (CHN)

Canoe slalom

From 11pm

11pm Tristian Carter (men’s canoe heats)

12am Jess Fox (women’s kayak heats)

1.10am Tristan Carter (second run)

2.10am Jess Fox (second run)

Cycling (road)

10.30pm: Women’s individual time trial (Grace Brown 11.19pm)

12.30am: Men’s individual time trial (Lucas Plapp 1.09am)

Diving

7pm Annabelle Smith and Maddison Keeney (women’s synchronised 3m springboard)

Equestrian

From 5.30pm

Men’s eventing dressage team and individual – Shane Rose (5.36pm), Chris Burton (8.30pm), Kevin McNab (12.24am)

Football (men’s)

Six men’s matches from 11pm – no Australians

Gymnastics

From 7pm

11.30pm: Jesse Moore (men’s artistic qualification)

Hockey

Eight matches from 6pm

• (Men’s) 9.15pm: Australia v Argentina

Judo

6pm: Joshua Katz vs Andrea Carlino (men’s 60kg elimination)

4.09am: Men’s 60kg final

Rowing

6.12pm: Tara Rigney (women’s single sculls heat 1)

8.10pm: Amanda Bateman, Harriet Hudson (women’s doubles sculls heat 1)

8.50pm: Caitlin Cronin, Laura Gourley, Rowena Meredith, Ria Thompson (women’s quadruple sculls heat 1)

Rugby sevens (men’s)

12am Semi-final: Australia vs Fiji

• 3am: Bronze medal game
• 3.45am: Gold medal game

Shooting

8.30pm: Elena Galiabovitch (women’s 10m air pistol qualification)

Skateboarding

8pm: Shane O’Neill (men’s street preliminaries)

Men’s street final starting at 1am

Surfing

From 3pm: Ethan Ewing, Jack Robinson (men’s round 1)

From 9pm: Tyler Wright, Molly Picklum (women’s round 1)

Swimming

Women’s 100m butterfly

H2 7.02pm: Emma McKeon
H3 7.05pm: Alexandra Perkins
Semifinals from 4.30am

Women’s 400m freestyle

H2 7.18pm: Jamie Perkins
H3 7.24pm: Ariarne Titmus
Final: 4.52am

Men’s 100m breaststroke

H3 7.36pm: Josh Yong, Sam Williamson
Semifinals from 5.12am

Men’s 400m freestyle

H4 8.03pm: Sam Short
H5: 8.08pm: Elijah Winnington
Final: 4.42am

Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay

H2 8.20pm: Australia
Final: 5.34am

Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay

H2 8.31pm: Australia
Final: 5.44am

Table tennis

12.30am: Nicholas Lum / Min Hyung Jee v Ovidiu Ionescu / Bernadette Szocs (ROU) (Mixed doubles round of 16)

4am: Finn Luu v Alberto Mino (ECU) (Men’s singles round of 64)

Tennis

From 8pm on Philippe Chatrier
Second match: Matt Ebden vs Novak Djokovic (men’s singles)

From 8pm on Suzanne Lenglen
Fourth match: Rinky Hijikata vs Daniil Medvedev (men’s singles)

From 11pm on Court 14
Second match: Daria Saville / Ellen Perez vs Coco Gauff / Jessica Pegula

From 8pm on Court 10
First match: Daria Saville v Qinwen Zheng

Water Polo

4.05am: Women’s group A Australia v China