Women sport news

Great Britain’s Becky James produced a fantastic fight back to become world sprint champion and collect her third medal at the track cycling world championships in Belarus. British Cycling

Long Island Roller Rebels Allstars vs. Garden State's Iron Maidens Saturday - March 9, 2013 - 7PM

A delegation from the FIVB have completed their inspection tour for the FIVB Women's Under 20 World Championship in the city of Brno. FIVB

World champs Japan to test new talent Japan coach Norio Sasaki has named an experimental squad for next month’s Algarve Cup omitting a number of the Nadeshiko’s 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup™ winning stars. photo FIFA

Having narrowly missed out on a spot at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Vanuatu’s Miller Elwin and Henriette Iatika are about to take the first steps in what they hope will culminate in a place at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games.

Historically Colo Colo have been one of the standard bearers of Chilean football in continental championships. FIFA

Beach Volleyball will not be included on the programme for the 2018 Commonwealth Games following a decision by the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC).

The only women’s event scheduled for this meeting, the Scratch, was won by Katarzyna Pawlowska.

Clayton's Lisa Philips has etched her name into the record books at the $136,000 Australian Open today, becoming the first women to claim the blue-ribbon singles title twice since the event's inception.

Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling trio Laura Trott, Dani King and Elinor Barker took Gold for Great Britain in the World Track Championships, in Minsk, Belarus, to successfully defend the title won the previous year.

A stern test of golf awaits the world’s best women golfers when they arrive in Singapore next week for the 2013 edition of the HSBC Women’s Champions which tees off on The Serapong course at Sentosa Golf Club from 28 February to 3 March.

Sit-skier Kimberly Joines, the 2009 world downhill champion, upheld a spot on the coveted downhill podium by winning silver in Wednesday's race at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Alpine Skiing World Championships in La Molina, Spain.

Eight time winners of the Cup Bowdon Hightown face a tricky away tie against high flying Buckingham whose 100% record at the top of the Investec Women's Conference West will ensure the northerners take no chances against their lower league opponents. photo England Hockey

Recently crowned World Championships pairs gold medallist Kelsey Cottrell and Jackaroo captain Lynsey Armitage have booked themselves a berth in the women’s pairs final of the $136,000 Australian Open, after being pushed to near breaking point in today’s semi-final.

The World Squash Federation, together with the Men's and Women's Professional Tours, has just launched a new online campaign to build support for Squash's ambition to join the Olympic Games in 2020.

Sarah Hendrickson (Park City, UT) came from behind with a strong second jump to finish third in Ljubno. Photo: Sarah Brunson/U.S. Ski Team

The U.S. Alpine Ski Team wrapped up one of its most successful World Championships in history, leaving Schladming with the official medals title with four gold plus a bronze. (Tom Kelly/U.S. Ski Team)

Her name is now inscribed in the history of track cycling: Sarah Hammer gained her fifth triumph in the individual sprint, and certainly deserves a place among the all-time greats in this category. UCI

BOURGES (EuroLeague Women) - The second round of the EuroLeague Women gets underway on Tuesday.

Bethania De la Cruz, the top scorer and best server of the 2011 FIVB World Cup, has been named the new captain of the Dominican Republic women’s national team.

U.S. Figure Skating announced today that Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim will represent Team USA at the 2013 ISU World Figure Skating Championships March 10-17, 2013, in London, Ontario, Canada

Newly-crowned ICC Women's World Cup champion and Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars contracted player Lisa Sthalekar has today announced her retirement from international cricket.

Rolex Rankings No. 8 Jiyai Shin outdueled Lydia Ko and held off a surging world No. 1 Yani Tseng to capture the ISPS Handa Australian Women’s Open at Royal Canberra Golf Club.

The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars have claimed the ICC Women’s World Cup with a 114-run win over the West Indies at the Cricket Club of India (CCI) today.

Life, they say, imitates art, but Sweden midfielder Louise Fors uses a passion for football as the blank canvas with which to express herself. Fors’ paint strokes, indeed, come in the form of defence splitting passes or mazy dribbles past defenders. FIFA

With 967 million cumulative viewers in 2012, Table Tennis is one of the most-watched sports on CCTV-5, China's main sports broadcaster that is part of the China Central TV family of network.