Fox does it again! Aussie hero Jess wins ANOTHER Olympic gold medal in Paris after triumphing in the C1 slalom final

Champion paddler Jessica Fox has defended her C1 crown and made Australian Olympic history by adding a second gold medal to her Paris collection.

Coming on the back of her breakthrough K1 triumph, Fox stormed to another commanding win at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium whitewater course on Wednesday.

The gold is the country's seventh of the Games.

Fox becomes the first Australian athlete to win six individual Olympic medals, overtaking swimmers Shane Gould, Ian Thorpe and Leisel Jones, sprinter Shirley Strickland and current chef de mission, cyclist Anna Meares, who each have five.

The 30-year-old Sydneysider is chasing more history, seeking a golden treble in Paris as she attempts to join Gould, in 1972, as the only Australians to have won three individual gold medals at the one Olympics.

With the addition of canoe cross to the 2024 program, the France-born Fox will start hot favourite to achieve the rare feat with that medal awarded on Monday.

Already the most successful female canoe slalom athlete of all-time, Fox now owns three gold, a silver and two bronze  from four Games after making her debut in London 2012.

Like her emphatic victory in Tokyo, when C1 was added to the program, Fox swept the field.

Germany's former world champion Elena Lilik set the pace, stopping the clock on her clean run at 103.54 seconds.

Second last on the course, Fox produced a clean run and a stunning time of 99.06.

American Evy Leibfarth took bronze.

'It's quite surreal to be named alongside some of those incredible women, incredible champions of our sporting history in Australia and it just makes me super proud to be Aussie, super proud of my performances here and over the last four Olympics,' she told Channel Nine. 

'But also just so grateful to my team and to all the Aussies who were cheering us on and today I think they really helped me get across the line. 

'The crowd was incredible and especially all those as well at home who were waking up at 3am. That energy, that good energy, we feel that so thank you to everyone.'

Reflecting on her incredible performance, Fox said: 'It was probably one of the biggest moments of my career because sitting on that start line knowing what the German had done as a time it was a really fast time. 

'I knew I had to leave it all out there, I knew I had to nail every single technical move out there and I had to gun it start to finish. 

'So, for me to be able to put that out there in an Olympic final too, go and defend an Olympic title, it's just the best moment as an athlete, when you've worked so hard for so many years physically, technically, when it all comes together mentally then you execute it, it feels so good. It is a credit for all the hard work we have done as a team.

'Those when who were on the river bank, you mentioned Mum running along there. The emotion is high when you're following a race. The whole team, the emotion was just... You're so happy when a run comes together like that so I definitely put it up there's a one of the best runs.'