Rio Olympics women’s water polo 2016 results: August 15
Full results from the women’s Olympics water polo quarterfinals on August 15th; Team USA has a dominating performance against Brazil.
Monday marked the start of the Olympics water polo women’s quarterfinals. The United States women have remained perfect in the preliminary rounds, and they stayed that way as they took on winless Brazil in the first match of the day, winning 13-3. Brazil’s three points came in the fourth quarter when Team USA started rotating its starters out and allowing the younger members of the team to get in the pool.
Team USA will take on Hungary and Italy will play Russia in the semifinals on Wednesday.
On Saturday, the United States defeated Hungary 11-6 on the third day of the women’s Olympics water polo tournament, staying perfect for the tournament. Brazil and China remained at the bottom of the leader board.
Team USA had a strong showing in Rio on day two of the women’s tournament in defense of their gold medal title from 2012, defeating China in a 12-4 rout. Italy (Group A) and the United States (Group B) remain perfect in the preliminary round, while Brazil and China had yet to pick up a win. Australia, Russia, Hungary and Spain all have two points each.
Team USA dominated in the first day of the women’s Olympics water polo preliminary tournament on Tuesday, as they came out 11-4 over Spain. The Team USA women are defending their gold medal from the 2012 London Olympics, where they met Spain in the gold medal match. Their rout of Spain is a great start to the tournament for Team USA. The USA women started out with a 7-2 lead after the first two quarters, and then there was no looking back after that as they finished the game 11-4.
Full results for the women’s water polo quarterfinals on Monday:
1:10pm ET: Women’s tournament quarterfinals: Brazil 3, United States 13
2:30pm ET: Women’s tournament quarterfinals: Australia 11, Hungary 13
3:20pm ET: Women’s tournament quarterfinals: Russia 12, Spain 10
5:40pm ET: Women’s tournament quarterfinals: Italy 12, China 7
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The women are back in action on Wednesday, August 17, with the start of the semifinals. The quarterfinals for the men’s tournament begin on Tuesday, August 16th.