Australia's outstanding athletics performance at the 2021 Olympic Games

In the final, Hall finished 6th with a PB 3:59.01 and Jessica Hull 11th with the latter perhaps jaded by her very fast run in the semi-finals.

Hall's great run joins Margaret Crowley (5th 1996) and Jenny Orr (8th) as the only Australians to finish in the top eight in an OG 1500m final.

In the short hurdle events, Liz Clay ran a PB in the semi-final with 12.71, while Nicholas Hough also made the semi-finals with 13.57 in the first round.

While Australia's longer distance runners were less successful, they too had good results.

Patrick Tiernan, whose gutsy finish in an exhaustive state was evident for all Australians to see, did well just to qualify for the OG 10,000m final.

Genevieve Gregson, who also qualified for the 3000m steeplechase final after her good heat run, would hurt her Achilles tendon when crashing at the last barrier and was unable to finish the race.

And Sinead Diver did extremely well to finish 10^th of 88 starters in the women's marathon, in a tough race where the very hot conditions resulted in 14 starters not finishing the race.

In the field events (four jumps and four throws events), Australia had record eight top 8 OG finishes, surpassing the previous high of six such places in 1984 and 2000.

In a fantastic female high jump competition, Nicola McDermott was brilliant leaping an outstanding 2.02m (Australian record) to win the silver medal, with Eleanor Patterson also doing very well to finish fifth with 1.96m.

McDermott's narrow miss at 2.04m showed the world that she is far from finished in terms of achieving higher goals.

McDermott's silver medal was Australia's fifth ever OG high jump medal, thus making the high jump Australia's most successful OG field event with five medals compared to four for the long jump.

In the men's high jump, Brandon Starc leaped a SB of 2.35m to finish 5th, just 2cm behind the gold medal height.