{"id":568,"date":"2022-10-17T03:35:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T03:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.24hscore.com\/bookmaker\/?p=568"},"modified":"2022-10-17T03:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T03:35:17","slug":"usa-clinch-record-extending-11th-womens-world-cup-title-after-beating-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/usa-clinch-record-extending-11th-womens-world-cup-title-after-beating-china\/","title":{"rendered":"USA clinch record-extending 11th Women’s World Cup title after beating China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Defending champions USA beat China 83-61 to win a record-extending 11th Women’s World Cup title in Sydney on Saturday, while Australia’s Lauren Jackson brought the curtain down on her glittering career with a bronze medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A’ja Wilson\u00a0(26), who plays for the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces, led tournament favourites\u00a0Team USA\u00a0with 19 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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USA clinch record-extending 11th Women’s World Cup title after beating China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The United States earned a hard-fought early lead of 18-13 at the end of the first quarter and were made to work by\u00a0China\u00a0as they extended it to 43-33 at the halfway mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game looked poised for a close finish at the break, but China faded quickly in the third quarter, going 21 points behind as Jewell Loyd and Kelsey Plum scored a combined 15 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States then weathered a late surge from China in the final quarter to secure their fourth straight\u00a0World Cup title\u00a0in front of close to 16,000 fans at the Sydney Superdome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Li Yueru\u00a0led the scoring for China with 19 points, as they earned their second World Cup silver medal in women’s basketball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JACKSON BOWS OUT WITH BRONZE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Earlier on Saturday,\u00a0Lauren Jackson\u00a0brought the curtain down on her glittering career in spectacular fashion, leading the scoring with 30 points as hosts\u00a0Australia\u00a0posted a 95-65 victory over\u00a0Canada\u00a0to take bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 41-year-old, who announced her retirement on social media before the match, also equalled the record for most appearances at the Women’s World Cup with her 43rd game in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They’re the best group of the girls, I’ve had the best time, and it’s the best journey I’ve had in the sport<\/strong>,” said Jackson, who returned to the Australia squad in August following a lengthy absence after first retiring in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kia Nurse<\/a> scored 19 points to keep Canada within touching distance of Australia for the first half of the game, but Jackson’s 12-point rampage in the third quarter gave the hosts a 17-point lead heading into the final 10 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson was then substituted off to a standing ovation with 2:22 remaining, as Australia closed out the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defending champions USA beat China 83-61 to win a record-extending 11th Women’s World Cup title in Sydney on Saturday, while Australia’s Lauren Jackson brought the curtain down on her glittering career with a bronze medal. A’ja Wilson\u00a0(26), who plays for the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces, led tournament favourites\u00a0Team USA\u00a0with 19 points. The United States earned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baskeball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}