Australia edged Belgium 85-81 within the girls’s basketball bronze medal sport on Sunday on the Paris Video games, returning to the Olympic podium for the primary time since 2012.
Australia, which had not gained a medal in girls’s basketball since its bronze on the London Video games, narrowly outscored Belgium within the first half, main by just one level halfway by way of the sport.
Belgium started to dominate within the third quarter, recording three extra factors than Australia and taking a one-point lead going into the ultimate quarter.
With the lead altering arms 15 occasions all through the sport, Australia pushed by way of within the fourth quarter, outscoring Belgium 26-19 to safe the medal. Ezi Magbegor of Australia had a 30-point sport and recorded 13 rebounds and three assists.
America will search its eighth consecutive Olympic title when it faces France within the gold medal match afterward Sunday.