There were tears of joy as Australia's undefeated women's team claimed the first Rugby Sevens Olympic gold medal.
After winning every game except for a draw with the United States, the Aussies beat rivals New Zealand 24-17 in the gold medal match.
Co-captain Shannon Parry says the win was a reward for the team's hard work and sacrifice.
"People left families, partners, to chase this dream and, you know, today, for us, it became a reality."
Fellow player Sharni Williams says the inclusion of Rugby Sevens in the Olympics is great for the fast-growing sport.
"It's amazing. We're making history here, and it's a credit to World Rugby for jumping on board the IOC and I can't wait to see where it goes, it's going leaps and bounds, so it's going to be amazing."
Some members of the gold medal-winning team only picked up the sport four years ago.
Australia's equestrian team is in the gold medal position after a particularly difficult cross-country event.
Rider Christopher Burton is also sitting in the individual gold medal position.
Burton says the team is confident it can hold off the New Zealand riders, who are close behind them, in the final show-jumping event tomorrow.
"This is the position we wanted to be in. We've only got a slender lead, we've only got one rail in front of the New Zealanders, but we've got good enough horses that we think we can maintain that, so we're really confident."
Mirroring what's been seen at other events, Burton says the crowd numbers were surprisingly small for the equestrian events.
"Having competed in Europe where they get massive crowds, perhaps the crowd size was a little bit disappointing, but I have to say they were an enthusiastic crowd, the ones that were there."
To the rowing, where Australia's Men's Four has qualified fastest for the semi-finals.
Rower Josh Booth says the team was able to dominate the heat from the start.
"We said right at the beginning that we wanted to start the race well so we could get out in front and dictate terms and it panned out that way. We were able to just sit back in the last thousand and cover and block the other crews and just walk it home, which was nice."
Booth says the wind that has delayed competition continued to be a factor, but the team was able to hold its stroke together.
"It's still tricky, you've got that cross-breeze hitting you from the bow side, pushing onto the bow side, but we went out there with a process to finish each stroke off and we managed very well today, so it was a good race."
Australia's backstrokers failed to fire in the men's and women's 100-metre finals, with Mitch Larkin finishing fourth and Emily Seebohm and Bronte Barratt finishing seventh and eighth.
However Alicia Coutts qualified third-fastest for the 200-metres individual medley final.
Cyclist Melissa Hoskins has crashed heavily, and was briefly hospitalised, while training with Australia's world record-holding pursuit team.
Team doctor Mark Fisher says she hasn't been ruled out of competing and they will work on her towards qualifications and see how she goes.
"Mel had a pretty nasty fall on the track today in training but the good news is she's been scanned and there are no serious fractures. She's got a pretty nasty bruising of her hip and you can see being on crutches, she can't weight-bear on that leg at the moment so we'll give her 24 to 48 hours and see how she settles down."
The Australian athletics team has finally arrived in Rio from the team training camp in Florida.
It is the second largest off-shore athletics team Australia has fielded, with 61 athletes.
Race walker Jared Tallent and long-jumper Fabrice Lapierre are among the medal contenders.
And there was relief and excitement for host country Brazil as it finally won its first gold medal of the Games.
Judoka Rafaela Silva won the women's 57-kilo judo final, beating Sumiya Dorjsuren of Mongolia.
