As of day nine, Australian women have won gold in canoeing, swimming, cycling and BMX at the Paris Games.
Despite often facing greater challenges just getting to the starting line or onto the field, women are doing the heavy lifting for Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. In fact, it wasn't until day seven of the Games that a gold medal was awarded to a male Australian athlete . Australia's eight gold medals before that were all won by women.
When women first competed in the Olympics in 1900, they accounted for just 2.2 per cent of the participants. At the 1984 Los Angeles Games, that number had risen to 23 per cent. It hit 48 per cent at the 2020 Tokyo Games. The Paris 2024 schedule includes 152 women’s events , 157 men’s events and 20 mixed-gender events. Australia has so far won 12 gold medals and sits fourth on the medal table behind host nation France, which has the same number of golds but has more medals in total.
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