AUSTRALIANS Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar have followed up their Commonwealth Games silver medal with gold at the beach volleyball World Tour event in Lucerne, Switzerland.
The number one seeds defeated Chinese third seeds Fan Wang and Xinyi Xia 21-12 21-18 in a dominant performance.
“We are really excited. This is the third gold and it is exciting for us how we can keep growing our game as a new team,” Artacho said on Tuesday. The gold medal is the duo’s third world tour gold since teaming up in October.