Women sport news

She was world champion seven years ago, has two Olympic titles and holds a world record which has stood for six years.

India seized the initiative on a rain-interrupted day after England crumbled to 84 for six when the visitors struck immediately after a long afternoon delay when nearly two and a quarter hours were lost.

England Women are through to their fourth successive Women’s Rugby World Cup final after an impressive five-try, 40-7 win against Ireland in Paris.

Eloyse Le Sueur stamped her mark on the Long Jump event achieving a 6m 85 jump to become Euro Champion today. Britain's Tiffany Porter stormed to Gold in the 100m hurdles defeating Cindy Billaud of France, Germany's Cindy Roleder took bronze.

Schippers began the season as a heptathlete, and will almost certainly start next season as a heptathlete - but the 22-year-old Dutch athlete is finishing this year as a sprinter

India made a sensational return to the longest format after eight years away as wickets tumbled throughout and England Women slumped to their lowest ever total.

In a career that has spanned more than two decades, Britain’s Jo Pavey has won silver and bronze medals at the European Athletics Championships – but until tonight, never a gold.

The final instalment in Cricket Australia’s (CA) biggest ever summer of cricket has been unveiled today with the release of the women’s domestic schedule for 2014-15.

WSR are taking a break while the Commonwealth Games are on in Glasgow. Colleagues are busy travelling to watch the games and we want to enjoy and not have to work. Enjoy the Games and the WSR Team will be back in the middle of August.

Glasgow and Scotland welcomed the world with an Opening Ceremony that featured thousands of friendly faces, a blend of bagpipes, banter and bravado and a soundtrack made for the best party in town.

Ana Jokovic already knows what it feels like to step out at the FIBA World Championship for Women as a player and very soon, she will be bursting with pride when she watches her nation take to the floor in Turkey.

Fast friends and active training partners back home and rivals in Acapulco, USA’s Morgan Martin/Kathryn Plummer defeated fellow Americans USA’s Haley Hallgren/Joy Dennis to win the women’s gold medal match early Sunday evening.

Mona Barthel has celebrated her third WTA Tour title by winning the Bastad, Sweden tournament.

Sophie Coldwell (GBR) stormed to victory at the ETU European Junior Cup in Geneva yesterday. It was Coldwell's second Junior Cup win of her career but her first since 2011.

The Victorian Fury has stretched its winning streak to 17 matches in the Australian Netball League after clean sweeping its three matches in Round 3 over the weekend.

Scotland’s Kylie Walker fired a third straight round of eight-under-par 64 in the Ladies German Open presented by Marriott at Golfclub Wörthsee for a three-round total of 259, 24-under-par: a new Ladies European Tour 54-hole record.

Sweden’s Isabella Ramsay claims her second LETAS title of the season, winning the Royal Belgian Golf Federation LETAS Trophy at Rinkven Golf Club. Ramsay shot a closing round of 71, for a three round total of 209 for the win

Australian netball coach Lisa Alexander said she was satisfied with her side’s performance following an exhibition match in Manchester.

Former England Captain, Clare Connor, who is now Head of Women's Cricket at the England Cricket Board spoke to Claire Allen

Team Bath and England player Serena Guthrie is heading to the southern hemisphere to play for ANZ Championship side Northern Mystics next season.

ISTANBUL (FIBA World Championship for Women) - A legend of women's basketball in her homeland and one of the most successful Turkish women's athletes of all time, Nevriye Yilmaz is ready to lead her country at the FIBA World Championship for Women.

The Cricket Australia (CA) Women’s National Selection Panel (WNSP) today announced two 13-player squads for the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars’ upcoming series of One-Day Internationals and T20 Internationals against Pakistan next month.

Nicol David, the women's world No1 since August 2006 who is celebrating a record-equalling fifth successive appearance in the Games since 1998, lines up against Vanessa Florens, a 34-year-old from Mauritius who also competed in the 2006 Games in Melbourne.

The Women’s International Match Racing Series (WIM Series) welcomes Women’s Match Race Golfe du Morbihan in Vannes to the 2014 schedule. The event was initiated and is organized by double World Champion and multiple world ranking #1, Claire Leroy:

Young people from every corner of Scotland have arrived in Glasgow to cheer on athletes from the Bahamas to Bangladesh and from Malta to Mozambique.

Melbourne will be the venue for the first intrastate showdown of the 2014 Australian Netball League season with the clash between the Victorian Fury and Victorian Flames headlining the Week 3 round of matches.