Australia has achieved its greatest-ever Olympic gold medal haul, setting a new benchmark in its sporting history.
On Thursday, the Australian Olympic team made history by winning the most medals in a single day, bringing their total medal count to an impressive 18 gold, 12 silver, and 11 bronze.
Previously, Australia’s best Olympic performance was at the Athens 2004 Games, where the nation secured 17 gold, 16 silver, and 17 bronze medals.
In the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the team matched the gold tally with 17 but added seven silver and 22 bronze.
However, Australia’s current tally in Paris, with 18 gold medals, marks a new high for the country in terms of gold medals won.
Despite this record-breaking gold count, Australia’s total of 41 medals in Paris still falls short of the overall totals from previous Games, such as the 58 medals won in Sydney 2000 and the 46 medals claimed in Beijing 2008. The tally is on par with the 41 medals won in Atlanta 1996, although that year Australia secured only nine gold medals.
This extraordinary achievement places Australia third on the overall medal tally, trailing only the USA and China. The Aussies are now five golds clear of France in fourth place, with Great Britain, South Korea, and Japan each trailing by one gold medal with 12 apiece.
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