Women sport news

BANGKOK (FIBA Asia Championship for Women) - Some key players of past tournaments will be absent for China at the FIBA Asia Championship for Women, but the team still has the potent low-post presence of Chen Nan.

The International Table Tennis Federation is excited to announce its first Dream Building Ambassador, Paralympic Champion Natalia PARTYKA of Poland.

The International Association of Business Communicators Canada (IABC Canada) has honoured Barb MacDonald with the Master Communicator Award.

British Cycling has today confirmed the Great Britain female team for the first round of the 2013/14 UCI Track World Cup, taking place in Manchester from 1st - 3rd November 2013.

The race to make the Ladies European Tour heats up this week with the Grecotel Amirandes Ladies Open, which will be the third last event of the season on the LET Access Series, the feeder tour to the LET.

England Women beat New Zealand by 19 runs in their 3rd game of the T20 Triangular series in Barbados, West Indies, ensuring their qualification for Saturday's Final.

Russia and Great Britain dominate the mixed pair finals in Odivelas - PORTUGAL. 7th European Age Group Games in Acrobatic Gymnastics

The International Table Tennis Federation has awarded Dubai the hosting rights for the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals to be held 9-12 January 2014.

Following the recent massive media campaign launched by Claudia Pechstein including an “open letter” addressed to the ISU.

Three days of top level cycling have ended. The European Championships Track Cycling resulted in several highlights with expected champions and stars-to-be: also on the final day of the event that calls Omnisport in Apeldoorn its home.

The second day of the European Track Cycling Championships in Omnisport Apeldoorn was all about sprinting. In the women’s category there was spectacle and host country the Netherlands won another medal.

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling's Laura Trott reclaimed the Omnium title that she first took in 2011, despite a crash in the Elimination Race that left her needing stitches.

While the storybook ending didn’t quite happen, Casey Jennings and his wife Kerri Walsh Jennings of the United States still made international history last Sunday.

Argentina enhanced their South American Championship Qualifier debut Saturday with a win over Columbia 3-0 (25-21, 25-18, 25-06).

A Premier League trophy was displayed at Anfield for the first time earlier this month, but it was the women’s team rather than the men’s who were parading the precious silverware. FIFA.COM

A hat-trick from GB and England ace Alex Danson helped Reading beat Sutton Coldfield 6-0 and stay top of the Investec Women's Hockey League Premier Division on Saturday.

The Australian Diamonds will go to next year’s Commonwealth Games on the back of six consecutive victories after a hard-fought 64-37 win over the Malawi Queens at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre on Saturday.

Hilton HHonors Skate America continued in Detroit (USA) Saturday with the Pairs and Ladies Short Programs, the Men’s Free Skating and the Free Dance.

A better start to the tournament was hardly possible. Gold for Kirsten Wild at the point’s race.

England Women were beaten by West Indies by 11 runs in their 2nd game of the T20 Triangular series in Barbados.

World Champions Meryl Davis/Charlie White (USA) danced to the lead in the Short Dance. Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte of Italy came second while Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) placed third.

Australian Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander has asked her team to stay focused on the job at hand when they take on the Malawi Queens in the final Test of the Coles Netball Test Series on the Gold Coast this evening.

Riding for the victorious Great Britain team, Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Elinor Barker, Dani King, Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott smashed their own World record in the Team Pursuit at the European Track Championships

Kendall Coyne (Palos Heights, Ill.), Brianna Decker (Dousman, Wis.) and Jocelyne Lamoureux (Grand Forks, N.D.) scored for the U.S. and goaltenders Jessie Vetter (Cottage Grove, Wis.) and Molly Schaus (Natick, Mass.) combined to stop 21 shots, but the U.S. Women's National Team fell to Canada, 6-3, here tonight.

The match schedule for the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup has been released for the men’s and women’s competitions, to be held in Japan this November.

With the CSV 2014 Women's World Championship Qualification Tournament set to start Friday, the participating teams have their hopes set on earning the one remaining spot allocated to South America for next year’s big event in Italy.