Russian Women’s Water Polo Team Beats Italy at the Olympics

Russian Women’s Water Polo Team featuring South Urals athletes Sofia Konukh and Olga Belova has beaten Italy scoring 7:4 in the second match of the water polo preliminary round at 2012 Summer Olympic Games.  

This time there was no ding-dong fight. By the end of the second quarter team Russia was leading 2:1. Russians have scored game’s main goals in the third quarter finishing off 4:1 and having a four-goal difference at the beginning of the last quarter – 6:2.

Team Russia prevailed during the last eight minutes of the game. Final result – 7:4. The last match of the preliminaries Russia will play with Australia on Friday, August 3.