Women sport news

After two very full three-day weekends, where sprinters and all-rounders met in all the Olympic distances but the longest, this weekend there were only two days of competition.

Gaby Jesson and Lorna Milken, founders of Radiator PR have been at the forefront of women in the world of sport! Both have had over 40 years sports experience from football management to snowboarding, both these ladies certainly know what they are doing!

World number three Alison Waters has been forced to withdraw from the team due to injury. The squad number two from London is still struggling with an Achilles injury sustained during the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

GREAT Britain women are in Holland this week as their preparations for the World Championships in Poland next month gather pace.

Saltford Golf Club, between Bath and Bristol, has stepped in to host the 2011 English senior women’s strokeplay championship, after the original hosts pulled out at short notice. The championship will take place, as planned, from June 14 to 16.

Australia’s Claire Duke has enjoyed a golden final day (26/11) at the fifth Asia Pacific Merdeka Indoor Championships in Kuala Lumpur after winning two the three titles on offer.

The fifth and final Bowls Australia grand prix for the year will ignite in Wagga tomorrow (28/11) when the $30,000 NSW Open gets underway.

Consorti wins the Kitesurf title while Aubet wins the Windsurfing title. Results below

Bath’s Olympic golden girl Amy Williams was presented with her MBE by The Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace. The University of Bath Sports Performance graduate received the honour in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List following her outstanding performance in winning skeleton gold at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games in March.

Ida Sargent (Orleans, VT) finished first for the U.S. women in 33rd. Norway's Marit Bjoergen won the women's 1.4/1.2k classic sprint.

Three-time Olympic medalist Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) showed she has the speed to return to the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom podium finishing eighth Saturday to lead the U.S. at the Visa Aspen Winternational.

Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (GER) take lead in Pairs Short Program, Kiira Korpi (FIN) captures Ladies Short Program and Nathalie Pechalat/Fabian Bourzat (FRA) dance to the lead

The ODP is the second step on British Cycling’s pathway to elite success, and aims to develop riders aged 16-18 years to a standard where they will be accepted onto the Olympic Academy Programme.

Netball Australia CEO Kate Palmer welcomed the announcement today by Minister for Sport Mark Arbib of $700,000 participation funding for netball.

The opening day of the O'Neill Women's World Cup, the second jewel of the Vans Triple Crown, saw the top seeds dominate their Round 1 heats in firing six-to-eight foot (2 metre) surf at the world famous pointbreak of Sunset Beach on Oahu's North Shore. photo Cestari

Nine U.S. Figure Skating athletes will compete Nov. 26-28 at Trophée Eric Bompard, the final event in the 2010 International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series.

Kiri Baga, the 2009 U.S. novice champion, announced today she has withdrawn from the 2010 ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) of Figure Skating Final due to Achilles tendinopathy in her left ankle.

Titles galore for the GB Squad who recently competed at the Trampoline/Tumbling World Championships in Metz France

USA Hockey today announced the 20-player U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team roster that will compete in the 2011 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's U18 Championship, set for Jan. 1-8 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Joyce Lindores’ bid for a sixth world lawn bowls title has suffered an early setback on Norfolk Island following a tie-break loss to Malaysian whiz kid Zuraini Khalid today (24/3).

Australia’s Joyce Lindores chalked up her second win from three starts at the World Champion of Champions after accounting for Holland’s Sashia Schaft in convincing fashion.

For the first time in the history of women's professional surfing, O'Neill is proud to present an ASP World Tour championship event: The $100,000 O'Neill Women's World Cup of Surfing, the second stop for the ladies in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. The women's event will run parallel with the long established men's O'Neill World Cup of Surfing.

British Cycling has today announced the riders it will be sending to represent Great Britain in the first two rounds of the 2010-2011 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, held in Melbourne, Australia from 2-4 December and Cali, Columbia from 16 -18 December.

The International Triathlon Union's bid to have Paratriathlon added to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games programme has been boosted today by a world championship squad.

The Main Round groups of the EHF Women’s Champions League were drawn in Vienna today. The first and second ranked teams of the two groups will continue in the semi-final of the EHF Women's Champions League.

Something's brewing again for entrepreneur and two-time Olympic medalist Shannon Bahrke Happe. The Lake Tahoe native, who now calls Salt Lake City home, is expanding her three-year-old Silver Bean Coffee Company, opening a flagship retail coffee shop at the bottom of Big Cottonwood Canyon just off I-215. Bahrke Happe was joined by fans and fellow Olympians Friday for a grand opening celebration.