Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes&nbsp;will leave&nbsp;the Ostrava Elite16 beach volleyball tournament with&nbsp;bronze medals.

The Canadians&nbsp;defeated Swiss duo&nbsp;Nina Brunner and Tanja Hüberli&nbsp;in straight sets (21-16, 21-14) in&nbsp;Sunday's&nbsp;third-place match at&nbsp;the Czech Republic tournament.

"I think with this game we went in with the mentality of leaving it all out on the court," said Humana-Paredes. "It's been a long week, so we wanted to put everything we could into it, and I think we did. We came out with the result we wanted [from this match]."

Ostrava&nbsp;marked&nbsp;just the&nbsp;third event&nbsp;for Wilkerson and Humana-Paredes, both of Toronto,&nbsp;since joining forces full-time in October.

FIVB Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 Ostrava Bronze-Medal Match: Canada vs. Switzerland

Watch Canada's Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson face Nina Brunner and Tanja Hüberli of Switzerland in the bronze-medal match at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 from Ostrava, Czech Republic.

The Canadians&nbsp;were undefeated at the tourney&nbsp;until dropping their semifinal match to&nbsp;Terese Cannon and Sarah Sponcil&nbsp;of the United States (19-21, 23-21, 15-13) earlier Sunday.

Cannon and Sponcil were later defeated by Brazil's Ana Patricia/ and Duda 21-17, 14-21, 12-15 in the women's gold-medal match.

Wilkerson, Humana-Paredes upend tough U.S. beach volleyball duo in Ostrava quarterfinals

The set streak is over, but Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Canada are semifinal-bound at the Ostrava Elite16 beach volleyball tournament in the Czech Republic.

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In their third tourney as full-time beach volleyball partners, Canada's Brandie Wilkerson, left, and Melissa Humana-Paredes have advanced to Sunday's semifinals in Ostrava, Czech Republic. They downed Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss of the United States 21-19, 13-21, 15-12 on Saturday.

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Wilkerson, Humana-Paredes roll to another beach volleyball victory at Ostrava event

Canada's Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes are rolling in Ostrava. The Toronto-born beach volleyball duo topped Brazilians Agatha Bednarczuk and Rebecca Cavalcanti Barbosa Silva 21-19, 21-16 to wrap group play with a perfect 3-0 record at the Elite 16 tournament on Friday in the Czech Republic.

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Canada's Melissa Humana-Paredes, left, and Brandie Wilkerson, right, beat a Brazilian duo to wrap group play with a perfect record at the Elite 16 beach volleyball event on Friday in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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"The teams here are elite calibre, but we've been working very hard," Wilkerson said in a post-match interview. "We have an amazing team [and] an amazing coach, so every game we were focused and we had our eye on the prize.

"This is amazing, to come from the qualifier to a medal, but there's still a couple spots at the top that we want to reach [on the podium]&nbsp;so there's a lot of work to be done."

FIVB Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 Ostrava Semifinals: Canada vs. United States

Watch Canada's Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson face Terese Cannon and Sarah Sponcil of the United States in the semifinals at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 from Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Canada's Brandie Wilkerson, left, and Melissa Humana-Paredes, shown in this file photo, won beach volleyball bronze medals in the Czech Republic on Sunday.

Wilkerson, Humana-Paredes capture bronze at Ostrava beach volleyball event

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