Australian pairing Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar have continued their domination on the FIVB World Tour with a gold medal in Lucerne, Switzerland.
The Aussies, who won silver at last month's Commonwealth Games, came away with their third world tour gold medal since pairing up in October last year.
It was also their fourth overall medal on the Tour.
“We are really excited," Artacho told FIVB media.
"This is the third gold and it is exciting for us how we can keep growing our game as a new team,” she said.
Happy #Lucerne winners Artacho and Clancy of Australia upon bagging their third gold on the #BeachWorldTour pic.twitter.com/jBCNXy959i
— Beach Volleyball (@FIVBBeach) May 13, 2018
Clancy and Artacho del Solar dominated the first set and won it by a landslide against Chinese pair Fan Wang and Xinyi Xia.
The second set was more even but he Australians stayed in control as Clancy used her power shot to close the match and win in straight sets (21-12, 21-18).
“We take it one tournament at a time and one game at a time," Clancy said.
"We knew they would come out strong, so we definitely knew we had to re-focus again, because we all had a long tournament.
So we are feeling really good about it now,” she said..
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