Beach volleyball-Canada and Brazil advance to women's gold medal match, Germany and Sweden for men's

08.08.2024 - 23:52 channelnewsasia.com

PARIS : Canada and Brazil advanced to the gold medal match of women's beach volleyball at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, while the German and Swedish men will fight for the title, setting up finales that will produce new champions in both events.

The United States, who were the defending gold medallists in the women's competition, were eliminated in the quarter-finals, and Canada are now assured of their first ever medal in the event after prevailing over Switzerland.

Brazil fought and won a hard match against Australia and now seek their first gold since 1996.On the men's side, Germany upset defending gold medallists Norway and will take on Sweden, who handily beat Qatar in the semi-finals on Thursday.The Canadian team of Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson lost their first set 21-14, but capitalized on Switzerland's errors of hitting out of bounds to take the next two sets.

Both fell to the ground in celebration after winning.Still, Humana-Paredes conceded she and Wilkerson did not showcase the best of their skills and would need to improve against Brazil on Friday."I don't think we've played our best volleyball yet.

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