Spain, World Cup bronze medalists, beat Olympic Champions Australia 3-2 in the Champions Trophy hockey tournament here on Wednesday.

This was Australia’s second defeat here. They had also lost to South Korea 0-1.

Australia are now on nine points with Spain on five. Spain went into the lead in the 10th minute itself with Eduard Tubau successfully converting a penalty corner.

Santiago Freixa made it 2-0 but Australia came back through a Luke Doerner goal in the 41st. Spain increased the lead to 3-1 in the 51st minute off Jordi Clapes.

Nathan Eglington scored the second for the Olympic champions but Spain held on to the lead to emerge winners.
Results: Spain: 3 (Eduard Tubau 10th PC, Santiago Freixa 32nd, 51st) bt Australia: 2 (Luke Doerner 41st PC, Nathan Eglington 68th); Great Britain: 4 (Stephen Dick 15th, Rob Moore 21st, Simon Mantell 25th, Richard Alexander 57th) bt Pakistan: 1 (Muhammad Imran 49th PC); Netherlands: 3 (Taeke Taekema 4th PC, Jan Marco Montag 56th, Rob Reckers 64th) drew with Germany: 3 (Florian Keller 14th PC, 58th, Rogier Hofman 32nd).