Sports

Basketball: Belarus women stamp final Olympic ticket

Published June 19, 2016 Updated June 19, 2016 07:59pm

1 min

By Fawad Maqsood

Add BRecorder as a trusted
source on Google

PARIS: Belarus grabbed the last place for women's basketball at the Rio Olympics in August with a convincing 56-39 victory over South Korea on Sunday.

The eastern Europeans, who failed to make it to the London 2012 Games after reaching the quarter-finals in Beijing 2008, joined China, Spain, Turkey and France -- hosts of the qualifying tournament -- as the final Rio qualifiers.

Read Comments