USA, Australia to play for Rio tournament win

The classification match-ups for the Waterpolo in Rio tournament were determined on Tuesday. USA and Australia, current world champion and number 4 respectively, will play for the tournament win in the final on Wednesday. The Netherlands and Canada face off for the bronze while hosts Brazil take on China for 5th place. The penultimate day of action at the Botafogo pool featured little surprisement, or perhaps the big win by USA over neighbours Canada can be called such. The Canadians, who enjoyed a successful start to the tournament lost their last pair of games including a large 13-4 defeat by USA on Tuesday. In the day's opening game the Netherlands proved to have the better of China walking away already in the first half. With a 7-15 triumph they will be playing for the bronze medal on Wednesday. In the final game Australia kept their perfect run intact rolling past Brazil 4-14 as they will get to play for the gold against rivals USA on Wednesday.

'Waterpolo in Rio' friendly tournament (women)

Rio de Janeiro

Programme and results

Friday, 13 November (round 1)

Canada vs. Australia 6-6 (0-1, 3-1, 1-2, 2-2)

USA vs. Netherlands 13-6 (4-3, 5-2, 3-1, 1-0)

Brazil vs. China 5-13

Saturday, 14 November (round 2)

Australia vs. USA 13-6 (3-1, 6-2, 1-0, 3-3)

Canada vs. China 7-6 (1-1, 2-1, 1-3, 3-1)

Brazil vs. Netherlands 10-16 (4-4, 4-4, 1-5, 1-3)

Sunday, 15 November (round 3)

USA vs. China 11-5 (4-0, 2-1, 2-1, 3-3)

Netherlands vs. Australia 2-9 (0-3, 0-0, 1-4, 1-2)

Brazil vs. Canada 2-9 (1-1, 1-2, 0-3, 0-3)

Monday, 16 November (round 4)

Canada vs. Netherlands 5-9 (1-1, 2-2, 0-4, 2-2)

Australia vs. China 10-8 (3-3, 2-1, 4-2, 1-2)

Brazil vs. USA 4-18 (1-4, 2-6, 1-2, 0-6)

Tuesday, 17 November (round 5)

China vs. Netherlands 7-15 (2-6, 2-6, 2-2, 1-1)

USA vs. Canada 13-4 (4-1, 2-0, 4-0, 3-3)

Brazil vs. Australia 4-14 (1-3, 1-4, 1-3, 1-4)

Wednesday, 18 November (round 6)

17.45: Brazil vs. China - 5th place match

19.15: Netherlands vs. Canada - Bronze medal match

20.30: USA vs. Australia - Final match

N.b.: time mentioned is local time.