With three gold medals in 77 minutes, Australia has moved into third place in the Paris Olympics medal on Friday, trailing only China and host nation France.
Kaylee McKeown and Cameron McEvoy upheld Australia's swimming supremacy, while Saya Sakakibara celebrated a spectacular victory in BMX racing.
In rowing, Jess Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre secured a bronze medal, bringing Australia's total medal count to 22: 11 gold, six silver, and five bronze.
Saya Sakakibara roars to glorious BMX race triumph
Three years after being taken away from the track on a stretcher following a horrific crash at the Tokyo Games, 24-year-old Saya Sakakibara won gold in women's BMX racing in spectacular style.
Watched by her family, including brother Kai who suffered a life-changing brain injury after another crash in a World Cup race in Bathurst in 2020, Sakakibara delivered the race of her life in the final to become the first Australian BMX racer to win Olympic gold.
Saya Sakakibara won gold after completing the 400m course in 34.231 seconds. Source: AP / Thibault Camus
From there, no-one was going to catch her as she blitzed away on the 400m course to win in 34.231 seconds, way clear of all of her seven rivals, with Dutch racer Manon Veenstra finishing a distant runner up in 34.954 with Zoe Claessens taking the bronze.
Kaylee McKewon makes historic win
Backstroke queen Kaylee McKeown won gold in the 200m race, becoming the first Australian to win four individual Olympic gold medals.
She is also the first swimmer to successfully defend 100m and 200m backstroke titles in Olympic history.
She kept her 200m backstroke title in stunning style, clocking an Olympic record time of two minutes 03.73 seconds, some 0.59 seconds shy of her world record set last year in Sydney.
McKeown is also the first swimmer to successfully defend 100m and 200m backstroke titles in Olympic history. Source: AP / Natacha Pisarenko
She now has five golds in her Olympic career, with a women's 4x100m medley victory at the Tokyo Games three years ago also in her collection.
"Not in a million years ... I couldn't ask for much more," she said of her medal haul.
On Saturday night, the 23-year-old is hunting more gold in the 200m individual medley - she qualified for that final just one hour after her historic 200m backstroke triumph.
Cameron McEvoy's 'splash and dash' triumph
Cameron McEvoy won the men's 50m freestyle competition, in the first gold by an Australian man at the Paris Games after the star-studded women had done almost all of the early heavy lifting.
McEvoy triumphed in 21.35 seconds in the one-lap dash ahead of Great Britain's Ben Proud (21.30) and Frenchman Florent Manaudou (21.56).
McEvoy's Friday night victory in the 50m freestyle is his first Olympic gold. Source: AAP / Dave Hunt
"It's hard to explain the two-year process that it took to get here and the route I took," he said.
Bronze in rowing for Jess Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre
Jess Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre made bronze as a pair in rowing, giving Australia its first rowing medal in this sport at the Paris Games.
The pair had a solid start but were soon outperformed by the crew from the Netherlands, and left in third place after a fast finish from Romania.
Morrison McIntyre claimed bronze after finishing the race in a time of 7:03.54. Source: AP / Ebrahim Noroozi
