Experience key in Bawden & Clancy’s opening Olympic win

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 6, 2016 – Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy had an experience advantage for their opening match in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as the Australians defeated Natalia Alfaro and Karen Charles of Costa Rica in the first women’s match of the competition at the 12,000-seat “Coliseu on Copacabana”.

Competing in Pool F, Bawden and Clancy scored a 2-0 (21-15, 21-14) win in 42 minutes over their Costa Rica rivals in the third of four matches in the morning session of the first-day of Beach Volleyball competition in the Copacabana quadrennial.

While Bawden and Clancy qualified for their spot in the Olympics via the FIVB World Tour while Alfaro and …

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