Russian head coach Elena Shulzhenko has welcomed 18 players to a training camp on the outskirts of Moscow this week, as their preparations for this summer's FIBA U19 World Championship for Women in Lithuania begins in earnest.
The IAAF World Championships, Moscow 2013, which takes place from 10 to 18 August, will be infused with memories of the last global athletics championship to be staged in the famous Luzhniki Stadium: the 1980 Olympic Games.
World Cup action heats up with the third race of the circuit in Huatulco, Mexico, set for Sunday. This is the sixth year the tourist destination has been part of the World Cup calendar, and the scorching heat is part of the unique challenge facing athletes preparing to toe the line.
The Japanese pair of World no. 10 Jun MIZUTANI and Olympic silver medalist Ai FUKUHARA have been sensationally knocked out in the first round of the LIEBHERR 2013 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris, France.
With an international mix of newcomers and veterans, the inaugural Women's International Match Racing Series kicks off tomorrow with the first event in St Quay-Portrieux, France.
The LET Access Series heads to Sweden this week for the Kristianstad Åhus Ladies PGA Open at Kristianstad GC in Åhus, which features on the LETAS schedule for the second successive year.
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling's Mayuko Hagiwara took the first European victory of her career at the Championnat de Wallonie Kermesse in Foy Notre Dame, near Dinant in Southern Belgium on Sunday.
On duty for India in Bremen and Guangzhou, India’s Neha Aggarwal made a successful start to her campaign in the Women’s Singles event at the LIEBHERR World Championships in Paris in the early evening of Monday 13th May 2013. Photo By: Rémy Gros
Not the youngest player on duty at the LIEBHERR World Championships in Paris, that honour belongs to Kyrgystan’s Kamila Mashanloeva, she is eleven years being born on Tuesday 24th July 2001 but most certainly the youngest member of the French Team is Marie Migot.
Home support paid dividends as Hungary dominate the action at the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup opener in the National Olympic Watersports Centre in Szeged, 10th - 12th May .
Cricket Australia (CA) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today announced that, starting in England in August 2013, the Women’s Ashes will be contested through a new multi-format series.
Top seed *Coline Aumard* clinched her first WSA World Tour title yesterday after coming through the *NT Open* at the *Darwin Squash Centre, Darwin, Australia.
The line-up for the FIVB Women’s U20 World Championship – to be held in Brno, Czech Republic from June 21 to 30 – was finalised at the weekend following the completion of the European qualifiers.
Curacao captured the gold medal in the NORCECA second round Group J of the 2014 FIVB Women’s World Championship with a commanding straight sets (25-10, 25-15, 25-11) triumph over St Lucia at the International School of Curacao Auditorium on Sunday night.
Using their inaugural appearance in this autumn’s Rugby League World Cup as a springboard, the Federazione Italiana Rugby League is determined to ensure further growth in all areas of the sport.
Lee-Anne Pace collected her sixth Ladies European Tour title at the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open, three years after her last victory in 2010, when she won the Order of Merit and five titles around the world.
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling's Giorgia Bronzini won the bunch sprint for second place in the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup race after the peloton was sent the wrong way in the closing kilometres and so was unable to catch a lone breakaway rider.
The US player defends her title at the Mutua Madrid Open against Maria Sharapova (6-1, 6-4), becomes the first woman to lift two trophies in Spain, reaches a WTA career total of 50 and keeps her spot at the top of the ranking. Mutua Open.com
The Women’s Final at World Cup #4 lived up to its billing with a tightly contested combined event capping off a quality day of competition in Budapest, Hungary.
Mexico and Colombia claimed victories over hosts Peru and Dominican Republic in the second day of action at the V Copa Latina of women’s junior volleyball on Friday.
Dominican Republic and hosts Peru won their opening matches of the V Copa Latina, a four-team women’s junior warm-up tournament in preparation for the FIVB U20 World Championship to be played in Czech Republic.FIVB
