Australia's women's team have narrowly missed out on a bronze medal at the Hockey World Cup after Belgium held on for a tense 1-0 victory in their play-off clash in the Netherlands.
The Hockeyroos were gunning for the third-place gong having missed out on making another World Cup final on Thursday when sunk by a late goal in their 1-0 semi-final defeat to Argentina.
And it was by the same scoreline the Aussies went down to the Belgians on Saturday, who claimed their first bronze medal since 1978 thanks to Charlotte Englebert's first-half strike in Amstelveen.
