LILLE (France) - Belgium's Emma Meesseman is continuing to show why she is one of the best ballers on the planet after continuing her phenomenal scoring streak across the Women's Olympic Basketball Tournaments at Tokyo 2020 and at Paris 2024.
The forward is the first player in history to have ever scored more than 20 points in six consecutive games.
But, Emma being Emma, she has went one further and now stretched that Olympic scoring streak record to seven games after racking up another 20-plus haul in Belgium's last group game against Japan.
Not only that, but she's set the bar even higher when it comes to her actual game totals as well, not just averaging more than 20 points in every game, but twisting the dial higher to more than 24 points in every outing.
This was officially confirmed as she hit the 24-point mark in the middle of the fourth quarter.
She'd end up with 30 points, her second-highest scoring total in the Olympics so far in her career. Meesseman also recorded 11 rebounds and five blocks - making her only the second player to combine over 30 points, 10 rebounds and 4 blocks in a game at the Olympics, after Poland’s Malgorzata Dydek in 2000 against Cuba who collected 32 points, 13 rebounds, and 5 blocks.
She has been responsible for three of the six times a player has combined for over 25 points and 10 rebounds in a game since the start of the 2020 Olympics.
Her five blocks also stands at joint-second all-time in the Women's Basketball Tournament.
It's incredible and it's why she is adored by Belgian Cats' fans, it's why she was her nation's flag bearer for Paris 2024 and it's why she is already considered a legend ahead of time.
Emma Meesseman's scoring at the Olympics
FIBA