The two representatives of French handball in C1 even remain in the race for direct access to the quarter-finals, reserved for the first two teams of the two pools, exempt from eighth.
With 14 points, the Dragonnes, who reacted four days after their rout in Györ (39-30), return to Group B up to Kristiansand in second place and are 8 units ahead of the first virtual eliminated.
Faced with Kastamonu, beaten nine times in nine games, Méline Nocandy's band (3 goals) accelerated at the end of the first period after 25 minutes without ever losing more than two goals.
Emmanuel Mayonnade's players returned to the locker room with a comfortable mattress (17-10) by inflicting on the Turks a 6-0, including three goals from their Brazilian winger Adriana Cardoso de Castro, recruited in November.
After the break, the gap never fell below five lengths.
Conversely, the BBH got scared.
After being detached on their return to the floor by subjecting Bucharest to 6-1 (17-12), the Brestoises revived the club of Siraba Dembélé at the end of the game.
It took a fingertip save from Cléopâtre Darleux to maintain a two-goal lead in the last minute.
The joy of the goalkeeper of the French team, Cléopâtre Darleux, after the victory against Russia, in the final of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, August 8, 2021 Franck FIFE AFP / Archives
The Bretons, outgoing finalists, can thank their goalkeeper for all of her masterpiece (20 saves, 50%).
Like another Olympic champion and vice-world champion, Kalidiatou Niakaté, whose long shot also avoided a last minute panic (23-21).
For their first European outing of the year, due to postponements linked to Covid-19, the Brestoises suffered less than in the first leg - 31-30 victory at the last second - and can confirm their qualification for the 8th in of the next day.
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