Two Australian boxers are hoping to make Olympic history as the nation looks to collect more gold medals after a record-breaking day 12 at the Paris Games.

Australia won four gold medals – in pole vault, skating, cycling team pursuit and dinghy – in a matter of hours, achieving its greatest daily result with 18 gold medals.

Australia won gold on each of the first eight days in Paris – the previous best was four – and has won a title on all but one day so far at the 2024 Games.

On day 13, there are more medals up for grabs as athletes face off against opponents in Paris.

Boxer Caitlin Parker will fight for the chance to turn guaranteed bronze into gold in her semi-final clash against China’s Li Qian.

Parker is already guaranteed Australia’s first Olympic medal in women’s boxing. But a win in her 75-kilogram division will place her in the final.

Another boxer, Charlie Senior, will fight Uzbekistan’s Abdumalik Khalokov for a place in the 57-kilogram final and a chance to win boxing gold.

Australia has two swimmers taking on the women’s 10-kilometre event in the Seine in Chelsea Gubecka, who won silver at last year’s world championships, and Moesha Johnson.

If they advance through the semi-finals, Australian kayak crews in the men’s and women’s K4 500 metres will back up and race for gold.

Kurtis Mathews produced a clutch last dive to sneak into the men’s three-metre springboard final, opening up a chance of a medal.

More Aussies in action

The Stingers will be out for revenge in their women’s water polo semi-final against the US after Team USA’s men took out the Aussie Sharks in the quarter-finals.

Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar have another Brazilian road block in the form of veterans Ana Patricia and Duda, with a place in the women’s beach volleyball gold medal match up for grabs.

Jessica Hull will headline the athletics charge, along with Georgia Griffiths in the women’s 1500-metre semi-finals.

Jessica Hull is a medal contender in the 1500 metres. Photo: Getty

Minjee Lee will look to continue her charge up the leaderboard in round two of the women’s golf after moving into seventh with a late flourish on the opening day.

Maddison Keeney finished as the second-ranked diver in the women’s three-metre springboard, advancing to Thursday’s semi-final along with Alysha Koloi.

Sam Welsford will back up from his team pursuit gold in the omnium while fellow track cyclist Kristina Clonan will go around in keirin and Matt Richardson continues in the sprint.

Victorian climber Oceana Mackenzie was ranked fourth in the bouldering heading into the women’s lead semi-final.

Other highlights

The US will face a strong Serbian side as it looks to advance into the gold-medal match in the men’s basketball and defend its Olympic gold.

Egypt and Morocco will battle it out in an African showdown for the men’s football bronze medal, with both countries looking to cap their remarkable Olympic campaign with a historic podium finish.

Australia reaches new heights

Four Australian gold medals in less than six hours propelled the nation’s Olympic title tally to 18, eclipsing the previous best in Athens and Tokyo.

Sailor Matt Wearn, skateboarder Keegan Palmer, Australia’s four-strong men’s team pursuit track cycling team and pole vaulter Nina Kennedy all saluted on Wednesday (Paris time).

It pushed the title total from 14 to 18 in barely six hours, while most of Australia was asleep, their golden tally now clear of the 17 achieved in Athens and Tokyo.

Two bronze, to walk relay team Jemima Montag and Rhydian Cowley, along with history-making discus thrower Matt Denny, meant Australia has never had a better day at the Games.

Wearn started the parade when he became the first man to defend the Olympic dinghy title, while 21-year-old Palmer made it two-from-two since park skateboarding’s introduction.

Fresh off breaking the world record to qualify for the final, Australia’s quartet of Sam Welsford, Kelland O’Brien, Oliver Bleddyn and Conor Leahy held off their British rivals to add a third gold in barely two hours.

Nina Kennedy has made history with her pole vault win. Photo: Getty

Kennedy then defied an early miss to vault herself and Australia to new heights.

“I didn’t know that [until just now], that is just insane,” Kennedy said after walking off the Stade de France track.

“I can’t wait to go home and watch a replay of the whole Olympics.”

The brilliant day eclipsed the record set just three years ago in Tokyo.

Back then, Wearn, BMX whiz Logan Martin, swimmer Emma McKeon and the 4×100-metre medley relay team all scooped a quartet of gold on the same day, but there were no minor medals.

-with AAP