WITH just a few days remaining till the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympic Games, Sportsbet.com.au has anticipating a successful summer campaign for Australia.
Australian athletes are outright favourites to win 19 separate events at Sportsbet.
The pool is expected to be our most lucrative venue for gold medals after the online bookmaker put Australians at the head of affairs in nine different events.
Sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell head the markets in both the 50m and 100m freestyle, while a bet on the Aussie women’s 4 x 100 freestyle relay to win the gold is among the safest of the entire games at $1.12.
Australia’s gold medal push is likely to be just as successful outside of the water at Rio.
The Aussies are the favourites in the men’s quadruple sculls ($1.91) and the men’s K4 ($3).
Superstar rower Kim Brennan is the hot favourite to win at the women’s single sculls at $1.40, while gun pairing Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmin are the $1.67 favourite to win the Mixed Gender Narca.
The remainder of Australia’s gold is expected to come from the hockey pitch, rugby field and shooting range.
The Kookaburras ($3.60) are expected to win their second ever Olympic gold medal in the men’s hockey, just shading the 2012 runners-up, the Netherlands ($3.75).
The Aussie women are expected to dominate the debut Rugby 7s Olympic market, going in as the red-hot $1.72 favourites ahead of New Zealand at $3.
Aussie shooting duo James Willet and Warren Potent head the markets in their respective events.
Willet is the $3.60 favourite to take out the men’s trap, while Potent is the $3.20 top elect in the men’s 50m prone rifle.
Although the individual markets will generate a lot of intrigue, the Aussie Olympic betting markets extend further than just the single events.
Sportsbet has set a number of overall gold medal betting markets, including an Australian total gold medals market.
Australia winning between 11–15 gold medals is the favourite at $2.00, but if all the 19 individual favourites manage to salute punters can earn $6.00 for 16-20 gold.
Think we can get the better of our big brother? Sportsbet have the market for that too.
Punters can also get a healthy $4.60 if they think we can topple the Poms in the overall gold medal market.
Sportbet spokesperson Ben Bulmer believes the bulk of the Aussie gold will come from the pool.
“We are a week out from Rio and the odds suggests our swimmers will be doing the heavy lifting for the nation, with the team expected to walk away from the pool with nine gold,” he said.
Although there is plenty of optimism around Australia’s gold medal chances, Bulmer thinks it would be unrealistic to expect the green and gold to top the medal tally.
“The Australian Olympic team is expected to finish in the top 5 on the medal table, joining Russia at $51 on the fourth line of betting, but frustratingly behind Great Britain, which is the $26 third favourite.”
Australian Gold Medal Favourites
Swimming – Men’s 100m Freestyle
$1.67 Cameron McEvoy – Australia
$6.00 Nathan Adrian – USA
$7.00 Zetao Ning – China
Swimming – Men’s 200m Backstroke
$1.25 Mitchell Larkin – Australia
$5.50 Ryan Murphy – USA
$13 Ryosuke Irie – Japan
Swimming – Men’s 100m Backstroke
$2.25 Mitchell Larkin – Australia
$4.00 David Plummer – USA
$4.00 Ryan Murphy – USA
Swimming – Men’s 200m Backstroke
$2.25 Emily Seebohm – Australia
$4.50 Katinka Hosszu – Hungary
$4.50 Missy Franklin – USA
Swimming – Men’s 100m Backstroke
$1.67 Emily Seebohm – Australia
$4.50 Mie Nielsen – Denmark
$6.00 Katinka Hosszu – Hungary
$7.00 Madeline Wilson – Australia
Swimming – Women’s 100m Freestyle
$1.36 Cate Campbell – Australia
$6.50 Bronte Campbell – Australia
$8.00 Sarah Sjostrom – Sweden
Swimming – Women’s 50m Freestyle
$1.67 Cate Campbell – Australia
$5.50 Bronte Campbell – Australia
$6.50 Sarah Sjostrom – Sweden
Swimming – Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay
$1.12 Australia
$7.00 USA
$8.00 Netherlands
$41 Canada
$51 Sweden
Swimming – Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay
$1.83 Australia
$2.37 USA
$12 China
$23 Canada
$26 Denmark
Canoeing – Men’s K4
$5.00 Slovakia
$5.00 Czech Republic
$7.00 Hungary
$10 Belarus
Rowing – Men’s Quadruple Sculls
$1.91 Australia
$3.35 Germany
$10 Great Britain
$10 Poland
Rowing – Women’s Singles Sculls
$1.40 Kim Brennan – Australia
$2.62 Emma Trigg – New Zealand
$13 Miroslava Knapkova – Czech Republic
Sailing – Men’s Laser
$2.70 Tom Burton – Australia
$4.33 Nick Thompson – GBR
$5.00 Tonci Stipanovic – Croatia
$6.00 Robert Scheidt – Brazil
Sailing – Men’s 470
$1.62 Matthew Belcher/ William Ryan – Australia
$2.40 Sime Fantela/Igor Marenic – Croation
$7.00 Stuart McNay/David Hughes – USA
$7.00 Luke Patience/ Elliot Willils – GBR
$15 Paul Snow Hansen/ Daniel Willcox – New Zealand
Sailing – Mixed Gender Narca
$1.67 Jason Waterhouse/Lisa Darmanin – Australia
$2.70 Billy Besson/Marie Riou – France
$5.50 Vottorio Bissaro/Silvia Sicouri – Italy
$6.00 Mandy Mulder/ Coen de Koning – Netherlands
Hockey – Men’s
$3.75 Netherlands
$5.00 Germany
$6.50 Great Britain
$7.00 Argentina
Rugby 7s – Women’s
$1.72 Australia
$3.00 New Zealand
$9.00 Canada
$9.00 Great Britain
$26 France
Shooting – Men’s Trap
$3.60 James Willett – Australia
$4.33 William Chetcuit – MLT
$5.00 Vasily Mosin – Russia
$6.50 Walton Eller – USA
$9.50 Tim Kneale
Shooting – Men’s 50m Prone Rifle
$3.20 Warren Potent – Australia
$3.25 Torben Grimmel – Denmark
$5.50 Henri Jenghaenel – Germany
$8.00 Michael McPhail – USA
$19 Daniel Brodmeier – Germany
Rio Medals Markets
Australian Total Gold Medals
$2.10 6 to 10 Gold medals
$6.00 16 to 20 Gold medals
$26 0 to 5 Gold medals
$101 21 or more gold medals
Australian Total Gold Medals – Over/under
$1.75 Over 13.5
$2.00 Under 13.5
Australian Total Medals – Over/under
$1.83 Over 41.5
$1.83 Under 41.5
Great Britain v Australia – Most Gold Medals
$1.17 Great Britain
$4.60 Australia
Most Gold Medals at Rio 2016
$1.17 USA
$4.50 China
$26 Great Britain
$51 Australia
$51 Russia
$67 France
$151 Germany
$201 Brazil
$201 Netherlands
$276 Japan
$501 Jamaica
$501 Spain
