Paris Olympic Games 2024: 24 Australian athletes to watch including Ariarne Tirmus and Sam Short

A year out from the 2024 Olympic Games, Australia is enjoying enormous success all over the world. Here are 24 young athletes to keep an eye on as the countdown continues.

24 to watch in Paris

In the same week that will mark one year until the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, Australia could not have written a better script.

Across the globe our athletes have been winning gold in their respective sports.

At the world swimming championships in Japan, Ariarne Titmus smashed seven tenths off the world record in the 400m freestyle to sound a warning to Kate Ledecky and Summer McIntosh.

Her Dolphins teammate Sam Short emulated Aussie legends Ian Thorpe, Kieren Perkins and Grant Hackett by winning gold in the men’s 400m free and in doing so he set the fourth fastest time in history.

Cassiel Rousseau meanwhile denied China a clean sweep in the men’s 10m platform beating Lian Junjie and Yang Hao to gold.

Rousseau (520.85) stunned rivals Junjie (512.35) and Hao (504.00) to claim his first global medal.

And it didn’t stop there, 13-year-old Chloe Covell became the youngest ever women’s street gold medallist at the X-Games (skateboarding) in California.

Going into her final run, Covell was in bronze medal position before pulling a heelflip down the stairs and a 50-50 kickflip and a frontside 50-50 to move into gold.

Looking ahead to Paris in 12 months, here are 24 Aussie athletes to get excited about for the Olympics’24.