Australia has qualified a second women's beach volleyball team for the Rio Olympics, winning gold at the Asian continental qualifiers. But the country will once again be without a men's team. Top seeds and under-23 world champions Nikki Laird and Mariafe Artacho del Solar beat Vanuatu in three sets in Cairns on Sunday, before Australia's other pair of Becchara Palmer and Phoebe Bell defeated Vanuatu's second team in straight sets. Selectors will now need to decide which team to nominate to join already-selected duo Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy, who are seeded seventh at Rio after qualifying automatically via the world rankings earlier this month. Laird and Artacho had the tough task of facing Vanuatu's top team of Miller Pata and Linline Matauata, who only narrowly missed out on direct qualification via the world rankings and had disposed of China's highly rated side in Saturday's semi-finals. Vanuatu took the opening set in heavy rain but Australia fought back to win the second. They then held on in a nail-biting final stanza, converting their fifth match point for a 19-21, 21-18, 19-17 win. But Australia's men lost their bronze-medal play-off against Kazakhstan.