The 2024 Olympics are set for an exhilarating day on August 7, with 21 gold medals up for grabs and a packed schedule of thrilling events.
Key Highlights:
- Men’s 200m Semi-Finals: Expect a high-octane display of speed and strategy.
- Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Final: Kenya’s trio, Simon Koech, Abraham Kibiwott, and Amos Serem, will challenge in this demanding race, featuring water and barriers.
- Men’s 5000m: The Kenyan team, including Jacob Krop, Ronald Kwemoi, and Edwin Kurgat, aims to win the country’s first Olympic gold in this event in 36 years, a feat last achieved at the 1988 Seoul Games.
Day 12 Schedule (East Africa Time):
Artistic Swimming
- 8:30 PM – 10:15 PM: Team acrobatic routine – Medal final
Athletics
- 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM: Marathon race walk mixed relay – Final
- 11:05 AM: Men’s high jump – Qualification
- 11:15 AM: Women’s 100m hurdles – Round 1
- 11:25 AM: Women’s javelin – Qualification A
- Noon: Men’s 5000m – Round 1
- 12:45 PM: Men’s 800m – Round 1
- 12:50 PM: Women’s javelin – Qualification B
- 1:35 PM: Women’s 1500m – Repechage
- 8:00 PM: Women’s pole vault – Final
- 8:05 PM: Men’s 110m hurdles – Semi-finals
- 8:15 PM: Men’s triple jump – Qualification
- 8:35 PM: Men’s 400m hurdles – Semi-finals
- 9:02 PM: Men’s 200m – Semi-finals
- 9:25 PM: Men’s Discus – Final
- 9:45 PM: Women’s 400m – Semi-finals
- 10:20 PM: Men’s 400m – Final
- 10:40 PM: Men’s 3000m steeplechase – Final
Basketball
- 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Women’s quarter-finals
- 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM: Women’s quarter-finals
- 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Women’s quarter-finals
- 10:30 PM – 12:30 AM: Women’s quarter-finals
Beach Volleyball
- 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Men’s and women’s quarter-finals (2 matches)
- 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM: Men’s and women’s quarter-finals (2 matches)
Boxing
- 10:30 PM – 12:30 AM: Women’s 57kg, men’s +92kg – Semi-finals; men’s 63.5kg, men’s 80kg – Finals
Canoe Sprint
- 10:30 AM – 4:10 PM: Men’s C1 1000m, men’s K2 500m, women’s C1 200m, women’s K2 500m – Heats and quarter-finals
Cycling (Track)
- 1:45 PM – 4:30 PM: Men’s sprint – Qualifying, early rounds, repechage rounds; women’s keirin – First round, repechage; women’s team pursuit – First round
- 6:30 PM – 8:50 PM: Men’s sprint – Early rounds, repechage rounds; men’s team pursuit – Medal finals; women’s team pursuit – Medal finals
Diving
- 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM: Men’s 3m springboard – Semi-finals
- 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Women’s 3m springboard – Prelims
Golf
- 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM: Women’s tournament – Round 1
Handball
- 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Men’s quarter-finals
- 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM: Men’s quarter-finals
- 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM: Men’s quarter-finals
- 10:30 PM – 12:30 AM: Men’s quarter-finals
Hockey
- 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Women’s semi-finals
- 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Women’s semi-finals
Sailing
- 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Mixed dinghy, Mixed multihull – Medal races; men’s and women’s kite
Skateboarding
- 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Men’s park – Preliminaries
- 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM: Men’s park – Medal final
Sport Climbing
- 11:00 AM – 2:15 PM: Men’s boulder/lead – Semi-finals (lead); women’s speed – Medal finals
Table Tennis
- 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM: Men’s and women’s team – Quarter-finals
- 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Men’s and women’s team – Quarter-finals
- 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM: Men’s team – Semi-finals
Taekwondo
- 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM: Men’s 58kg, women’s 49kg – Qualification rounds
- 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM: Men’s 58kg, women’s 49kg – Quarter-finals, semi-finals
- 8:30 PM – 12:00 AM: Men’s 58kg, women’s 49kg – Repechage rounds, medal finals
Volleyball
- 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM: Men’s semi-finals
- 9:00 PM – 11:30 PM: Men’s semi-finals
Water Polo
- 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Men’s quarter-finals (2 matches)
- 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Men’s quarter-finals (2 matches)
Weightlifting
- 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM: Men’s 61kg – Final
- 8:30 PM – 11:00 PM: Women’s 49kg – Final
Wrestling
- 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Men’s Greco-Roman 77kg, men’s Greco-Roman 97kg, women’s freestyle 50kg – Repechage; men’s Greco-Roman 67kg, men’s Greco-Roman 87kg, women’s freestyle 53kg – Round of 16 and quarter-finals
- 7:15 PM – 11:00 PM: Men’s Greco-Roman 67kg, men’s Greco-Roman 87kg, women’s freestyle 53kg – Semi-finals; men’s Greco-Roman 77kg, men’s Greco-Roman 97kg, women’s freestyle 50kg – Medal finals