Day 10 of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games features a jam-packed roster of Australians competing in athletic track and field events.

It’s hoped the success of the team will continue following a silver and bronze medal in the women’s high jump.

It’s already been a packed week, with the new fastest men and women in the world being crowned.

As the world shifts its attention from the pool to the track, curious spectators want to learn more.

Here are the answers to your burning questions about the athletics track and field events.

Who will compete tonight?

The Australian athletics team for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games is the second-largest ever sent, after Sydney in 2000.

The squad also contains serious pedigree, with six medallists from last year’s World Championships and three Olympic medallists from the Tokyo Games.

They will compete in 39 of the 48 athletics events in Paris.

Tonight, nine Australian athletes will compete.

They are:

• Matthew Denny in the men’s discus throw qualification
• Nina Kennedy in the women’s pole vault qualification
• Sarah Carli and Alanah Yukich in the women’s hurdles repechage round
• Ellie Beer in the women’s 400m round
• Mia Gross and Torrie Lewis in the women’s 200m repechage round
• Rose Davies in the women’s 5,000m final
• Kurtis Marshall in the men’s pole vault

The full schedule for day 10 of the Olympics is here.

When are the athletics events?

The athletics events for the Paris 2024 Olympics began on August 1 and will end on August 11.

Read the full Olympic schedule here.

The full list of events is here.

What does NR mean?

There are lots of abbreviations being thrown around on the athletics stage that you may not have heard before.

NR means National Record.

A national record is the the marks achieved by a nation’s best athlete or athletes in a particular athletics event.

What does SB mean?

SB stands for season’s best.

A season’s best is the best mark achieved by an athlete on a personal level within a season.

What is repechage?

Repechage, when loosely translated from French, means “second chance”.

It’s nothing new in track cycling, rowing, speed skating and a whole host of other events, but it is a new edition to the track and field events for Paris 2024.

At previous Olympics, the top three finishers in heats would progress automatically, with the remaining spots in the semifinals or final made up by the runners who finished fourth or lower with the best times.

But in July 2022, World Athletics announced a change at elite events, with all the non-automatic qualifiers (except for those who did not start, did not finish or were disqualified) going into repechage races to fill the remaining spots in those later races.

You can read more about the rule here.

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