Mitchell Watt is the $3.65 favourite with online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au to win gold in the men’s long jump at the London Olympic Games.
Great Britain’s Greg Rutherford ($6.00) and German Sebastian Bayer ($8.00) loom as the Watt’s biggest threats, but punters think Aussie is up to the challenge, with 91 percent of money wagered on Watt.
In the men’s pole vault, Steve Hooker remains on the fourth line of betting despite firming from $12 into $10. France’s Renaud Lavillenie is the $1.83 favourite to win gold.
Other Aussie medal chances in the athletics include, Sally Pearson, who is now into $1.45 to win the women’s 100m hurdles, and Jared Tallent, who is on the third line of betting at $6.00 for the men’s 50km walk.
Dani Samuels is a $41 outsider in the women’s discuss, while Tallent’s wife Claire is priced at $41 to win the women’s 20km walk, and our men’s and women’s 4 x 100m relay teams are priced at $501 and $101 respectively.
“Sally Pearson and Mitchell Watt are our best chances of gold in the minds of Aussie punters, with the pair overwhelming backed to win,” sportsbet.com.au’s Ben Hawes said.
Markets courtesy of sportsbet.com.au
Men’s Long Jump
$3.65 Mitchell Watt
$6.00 Greg Rutherford
$8.00 Sebastian Bayer
$8.50 Irving Saladino
$10 Marquise Goodwin
$13 Sergey Morgunov
$17 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena
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Others quoted
Men’s Pole Vault
$1.83 Renaud Lavillenie
$7.00 Bjorn Otto
$8.50 Malte Mohr
$10 Steve Hooker
$15 Pawel Wojciechowski
$17 Lukasz Michalski
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Others quoted
Women’s 100m Hurdles
$1.45 Sally Pearson
$4.50 Kellie Wells
$10 Dawn Harper
$17 Lolo Jones
$17 Briitte Foster-Hylton
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Others quoted
Women’s Discuss
$2.50 Sandra Perkovic
$3.00 Darya Pishchalnikova
$5.00 Nadine Muller
$7.50 Yanfeng Li
$15 Yarelis Barrios
$26 Stephanie Brown Trafton
$34 Zaneta Glanc
$41 Dani Samuels
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Others quoted
Men’s 50km Walk
$3.00 Sergey Bakulin
$3.25 Sergey Kirdyapkin
$6.00 Jared Tallent
$6.00 Alex Schwarzer
$6.00 Igor Erokhin
$9.00 Tianfeng Si
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Others quoted
Men’s 20km Walk
$2.25 Valeriy Borchin
$3.40 Zhen Wang
$7.00 Vladimir Kanaykin
$9.00 Ding Chen
$13 Andrey Krivov
$18 Luis Fernando Lopez
$21 Jared Tallent
$26 Nazar Kovalenko
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Others quoted
Women’s 20km Walk
$2.25 Olga Kaniskina
$3.75 Hong Liu
$6.00 Anisya Kirdyapkina
$6.00 Elena Lashmanova
$9.00 Xiuzhi Lu
$13 Shenjie Qieyang
$21 Elisa Rigaudo
$26 Ana Cabecinha
$31 Joe Maria Poves
$41 Maria Vasco
$41 Claire Tallent
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Others quoted
Men’s 4 x 100m Relay
$1.30 Jamaica
$4.00 USA
$19 Trinidad & Tobago
$34 Great Britain
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$501 Australia
Women’s 4 x 100m Relay
$1.91 USA
$2.00 Jamaica
$17 Trinidad & Tobago
$34 Ukraine
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$101 Australia
