Women sport news

Introducing USA Basketball Sensation Kymira Woodberry. Kymira tells WSR about her love for the game and her aspirations.

Racing resumed today in Kolomna, Russia, with last chances for skaters to earn World Cup ranking points and 2014 Olympic Winter Games qualifying places.

STORRS (FIBA World Championship for Women) - It's not too early for international basketball fans to get excited about Breanna Stewart.

A remarkable unbeaten run for French queens Lyon came to a shuddering last in the UEFA Women’s Champions League as the quarter-final participants were determined with Turbine Potsdam earning an unforgettable win. Plus World Round up. FIFA.COM

Albania’s women's national football team began their preliminary qualifying campaign for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015™ as an unknown quantity, but they ended it having written their names in the history books. FIFA.COM

British Cycling has today confirmed the female riders who will represent Great Britain at the second round of the 2013/14 UCI Track World Cup series, taking place in Aguascalientes, Mexico from 5 – 7 December. photo SW Pix

IMAGINING furious glares from her seven-year-old daughter prompted nine-time women’s world snooker champion Reanne Evans to stage a remarkable turnaround at the £2,000 Eden Resources Masters.

The 26-year-old from the Communidad Valenciana region of western Spain is the reigning Spanish time trial champion - a title that she won in 2012 when she was also road race champion - and has represented Spain several times at World and Olympic level.

Linda Turner has become the first British woman to be appointed to the role of International Technical Official (ITO) by the IAAF. Turner will hold the position up to 2017 and joins Chris Cohen, who has been an ITO since 2009.

The competition at Trophée Eric Bompard concluded Saturday in Paris, France, with the Pairs and Free Dance and Ladies Free Skating.

Canada’s Marie-Michèle Gagnon continued her strong start to the season with a fifth-place result in the first Audi FIS World Cup slalom of the year in Levi, Finland. French version below-Gagnon 5ème, Terwiel 11ème au slalom de Coupe du monde de Levi

The Ladies’ 1500m final was won by Suk-Hee Shim of Korea, for a second consecutive weekend, allowing her to clinch the World Cup title for the distance.

Fraser-Pryce, a first-time winner, received her trophy at the evening’s IAAF World Athletics Gala held at the Salle des Etoiles of the Sporting Club d’Eté.

World Champion Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) dominated the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup opening slalom with a wire-to-wire victory to notch the fifth World Cup win of her young career.

Despite being marked heavily throughout the 30-minute race, around a 1.1km downtown Takapuna circuit, the 23-year-old capped an attacking performance with a sprint victory over Sophie Williamson from Alexandra, with Karen Fulton of Nelson third.

Trophée Eric Bompard opened Friday in Paris, France, with the Pairs, Short Dance and Ladies Short Program. Trophée Bompard is the fifth of six events in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2013/2014 series.

Britain’s finest artistic gymnasts will take on the world’s best at the 2013 Glasgow World Cup as the full line-ups reveal a star-studded cast of competitors for the event on December 7th at Emirates Arena.

At the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Board of Directors meeting in Lima, Peru, motions were carried to support the inclusion of C1 Women Canoe Slalom and C1 Women 200m Canoe Sprint at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

The second Essent ISU World Cup of this season started today on the faster than ever Olympic Oval of Salt Lake City.

Warwickshire’s Rebecca Grundy called into England Women’s Performance Squad as Holly Colvin takes a break from cricket.

Playing at home in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, with all the much anticipated glamour in a country in love with her sport, would be like icing on the cake for veteran libero Fabi Oliveira.

MEKNES (African Clubs Cup for Women) - The reigning champions of African Clubs Cup for Women (ACCW) Liga Desportiva de Maputo will not defend their title.

Paralympic Champion Heather Frederiksen has announced her retirement from swimming after a career of six years at the top of the sport.

Big name meetings were a feature of the past week in women’s club football with several of Europe’s top clubs drawn together in the UEFA Women’s Champions League. FIFA

Japan's rise to prominence in Asian women's basketball this year may have come as a surprise to some, but not Tatsushi Isshiki.

Germany's 21-year-old shooting athlete Natascha Hiltrop was voted the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) Athlete of the Month for October.