Women sport news

World No.8 Suzann Pettersen of Norway came from two shots behind Korea’s Inbee Park to claim a one stroke victory at the Mission Hills World Ladies Championship in China.

Some of the biggest names in world swimming competed at the inaugural British Gas International Meet in Leeds, the first international swimming event on home soil since London 2012. dna

A big step has been taken for women's sailing as the details of the entry and scoring process for the inaugural Women's International Match Racing Series is defined in the Terms of Series.

Motorcycling Australia (MA) is pleased to announce that the 2013 Australian Women’s Motocross Championship will be held in Awaba, NSW on 27 October.

World No.4 Inbee Park of South Korea took the edge after a hotly contested third round at the Mission Hills World Ladies Championship in Haikou, southern China, on Saturday.

Louise Damen (self-coached) took the senior title at the McCain World Cross Trials incorporating the Inter Counties and McCain Challenge Final.

BOWDON Hightown take on high-flying Reading on Saturday as the Investec Women’s Hockey League Premier Division continues to build to a thrilling culmination.

Off the back of the phenomenally successful London Paralympic Games, the London Youth Games and the Tennis Foundation will host the first ever Balfour Beatty London Youth Games learning disability tennis competition in 2013

World champion Kelsey Cottrell is among a handful of contestants in the running to be named the Sunshine Coast athlete of the decade.

GENEVA - The global stars of women’s basketball have once again expressed their support for International Women’s Day.

ZAMORA (Copa de la Reina) - There isn't a better weekend in Spanish women's basketball than when the Copa de la Reina is played. FIBA

For the first time since the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings was launched in 2006, the official women’s golf rankings system is adding two global tours.

The City of Mandurah on Australia’s south west coast will be in the global spotlight on March 16/17. Considering the recent Tokyo World Cup Stop achieved over 700 hours of TV exposure, the outstanding quality of athletes attending this particular event will certainly thrill the viewers wherever they are.

PODGORICA (EuroBasket Women/FIBA World Championship for Women) - Miodrag Baletic and Montenegro had a roller-coaster existence at the EuroBasket Women in Poland two years ago.

Olympic silver medallist Samantha Murray and world champion Mhairi Spence will contest their first Modern Pentathlon World Cup of the year when they compete at Rio de Janeiro later this month.

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Giorgia Bronzini sprinted to second place in the Drentse 8 race in Dwingeloo, in the northeastern Netherlands, at the end of a tough race around the windswept course.

Under perfect conditions in Vail, Colorado, last year’s Champion Kelly Clark (USA) won the World Snowboard Tour Halfpipe Championship title. WST

Kelly Clark won halfpipe titles at the 31st annual Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships presented by MINI in sunny Vail Mountain, taking home $45,000 each as well as a legendary US Open halfpipe title.

Amid one of the strongest women’s golf fields ever assembled in China, three Ladies European Tour players lead the way on the opening day of the Mission Hills World Ladies Championship at Mission Hills Resort Haikou.

Olympic 5000m and 10,000m finalist Jo Pavey will miss this year's IAAF World Championships with the announcement that she is expecting her second child in September 2013. photo Mark Sherman

Please have a look at some of the positive influences that sport can have on the lives of young women. Getting involved with the scheme and playing sport has allowed these pupils to overcome difficult backgrounds and circumstances – whether that be a physical impairment or a behavioural or social issue.

Please have a look at some of the positive influences that sport can have on the lives of young women. Getting involved with the scheme and playing sport has allowed these pupils to overcome difficult backgrounds and circumstances – whether that be a physical impairment or a behavioural or social issue.

Laurenne Ross (Bend, OR) became the sixth U.S. Ski Team women's speed athlete to finish in the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup top three this season with a stunning second in the Garmisch downhill. Photo © Sarah Brunson/U.S. Ski Team

World Championship bronze medalist Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) was third Sunday in the final super G of the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup "regular season." Photo by Mitchell Gunn/ESPA)

This was Suhr’s ninth American record in six years and her first world record. The previous world record of 5.01m/16-5.25 was set in by Yelena Isinbayeva in 2012. US Track and Field.

Reading went up to second in the Investec Women’s Hockey League Premier Division after a solitary Kate Walsh goal fired them to victory over Leicester on Sunday.