US ladies win 3-on-3 gold medal in sport's Olympic debut

TOKYO — The U.S. workforce of Stefanie Dolson, Allisha Grey, Kelsey Plum, and Jackie Younger received the primary ladies’s gold medal within the new Olympic sport of 3-on-3 basketball.

Plum scored all 5 of her factors early to assist the People take the lead and so they held on for an 18-15 win over the workforce representing the Russian Olympic Committee.

Plum led all scorers on this match. She completed with 55 factors over the course of the five-day occasion through which the U.S. performed 9 video games and solely misplaced one.

China beat France 16-14 for the bronze medal and Serbia defeated Belgium 21-10 within the ladies’s third-place sport.