VNL 2021

Britt Herbots at 33: Third entry for young Belgian in 'Over 30s' club

The 21-year-old back in top-scoring form in four-set win over Thailand

Published 01:52, 18 Jun 2021

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Britt Herbots bagged her third '30+' at the 2021 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League with 33 points against Thailand.

The latest three-day break must have done Britt Herbots a world of good, because she came back flying to start Day 13 (and the last week of pool play) of the 2021 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League with yet another thundering scoring performance of 33 points as Belgium brought down Thailand in four sets on Friday.

The 21-year-old Belgian collected her points from 31 kills (31/58 for 53%) and added a block and an ace for her final tally.

It is the third entry of Herbots in the list of players to have scored 30 points or more in a single VNL game. But this time she did it in only four sets.

Earlier at the 2021 VNL Herbots had fired off 33 points against the Dominican Republic and 32 against Korea.

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Britt Herbots fires away past the block of Tomkom Nootsara for one of her 33 points against Thailand at the 2021 VNL.

China's Zhang Changning still holds the best VNL scoring performance of this season, with 37 points against Belgium. She also scored 36 points against Brazil this year.

Other players to have broken the 30-point mark at the VNL this year are Poland's Magdalena Stysiak with 35 against Japan and Russia's Nataliya Goncharova with 31 against the Dominican Republic.

Poland's Malwina Smarzek holds the all-time VNL scoring record with 42 points in four sets against Bulgaria in 2018.