Women sport news

The organising committee of the FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship Italy 2014 unveiled the official logo, the competition formula and the dates and cities for the quadrennial event on Tuesday in Milan.

Team Bath maintained their 100 per cent record in the Netball Superleague Showdown with a hard-fought 60-48 victory over Celtic Dragons in Newport last night (Monday).

The Porsche Team Germany player defeated the Italian qualifier Nastassja Burnett 6-3, 6-4 in the almost full-to-capacity Porsche Arena on Tuesday. porsche-tennis.de

Jennie Finch and her Olympic and professional softball teammates for two full days of personal instruction covering all aspects of softball.

There can be few footballers that have made a more circuitous journey - or indeed bigger commitment - than that made by Australia goalkeeper Lydia Williams. FIFA

England's Mel Reid launched the countdown to the 2013 Ricoh Women's British Open today when she teed off on the Old Course marking the Championship's return to St Andrews, Scotland, from 1st to 4th August.

Stuttgart. Andrea Petkovic is back. At the weekend’s Fed Cup tie she was in the box supporting her Porsche Team Germany teammates

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling's Lauren Kitchen finished safely at the front end of the peloton at the end of the Dwars door de Westhoek, in Boezinge, near Ypres, West Flanders

It was the shortest tournament victory in the career of Marianne Skarpnord. But it was also the toughest.

In a display of extreme speed and skill, GB’s Shanaze Reade last night (Sat 20th April) claimed the champions’ crown in an adrenaline-fuelled night of racing at the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup Manchester.

STOCKHOLM (EuroBasket Women) - Binta Drammeh didn't have to wait very long to realize one of her dreams by playing professional basketball in foreign lands.

With just a few days until the beach volleyball season opening event, the Fuzhou Open, gets underway, Brazilian beach volleyball legend Sandra Pires, a 1996 Olympic champion and Sydney 2000 Olympic bronze medallist champion, looks ahead to the next nine months. FIVB

In what was an adrenaline fuelled afternoon of racing at Manchester’s National Cycling Centre, the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup Time Trials got the weekend underway with 198 riders taking to the track from 29 different countries. Picture by Simon Wilkinson/SWpix.com

An impressive start to the season, and the signing of a World championship medallist, has put Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling into fifth place in the International Cycling Union (UCI) team rankings.

Ruby Harrold placed 8th in the all-around final at the 5th Individual European Championships in Moscow - the best ever placing by a British woman in the event.

USA Hockey announced today it has formally joined the United States Olympic Committee’s "Make the Commitment to Stop Abuse in Sport" campaign.

England have been pitched in Group 6 alongside Ukraine, Belarus, Wales, Turkey and Montenegro in the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 qualifying draw. FA

Ruby Harrold produced one of her best ever performances in women’s qualification at the 5th Individual European Championships to secure a place in the all-around (54.799) , beam (13.433) and bars finals (14.133); she will be joined in Fridays all-around final by first year senior Charlie Fellows who scored 52.566.

Paralympic champion Helena Lucas will be putting a 'whirlwind' seven months behind her when she steps back into 2.4mR action for the first time since winning 2012 gold at next week's ISAF Sailing World Cup in Hyeres, France (22-27 April).

As the women's squad settles into their new centralised training programmes this week, Great Britain and England Hockey are delighted to announce the athletes involved in the senior international women's programme.

Women Sport Report’s Helen Keeling spoke to England squash player, Emma Beddoes

Namibia and Burundi have secured gold medals, in the women’s competition respectively, at the 2013 CAVB Junior (U21) Beach Volleyball Cup in Windhoek.

Football cannot succeed without teamwork and it therefore seems apt that teamwork is being cited as the main cause for optimism as a new professional women’s league starts up in the United States with the backing of the Mexican and Canadian football associations. FIFA

21 year-old Italian continues phenomenal 2013 and moves to third overall in the World Cup ranking.

Further to yesterday's initial reaction by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) concerning the horrific events that occurred at this year's Boston Marathon

Even as she led the women’s Boston Marathon for mile upon mile with nary another female runner in sight, Ana Dulce Felix kept looking over her shoulder. boston.com