Women sport news

Russian sensation Aliya Mustafina (61.032) took the Women's World All Around title with a superb display of consistency proving too good for China’s Yuyan Jiang (59.998) in Silver and America's Rebecca Bross (58.966) who dramatically fell from Beam, her third piece of apparatus.

Hope Powell made eight changes to the side that drew with South Korea on Monday and the Three Lions were the better side throughout, creating the clearer opportunities but they were unable to find the finish their play merited.

Japan’s Ai Miyazato, winner of the 2010 HSBC Women’s Champions and current world No.1 on the Rolex Rankings, confirmed today that she will return to defend her title at the Tanah Merah Country Club (TMCC) from 24 to 27 February 2011. HSBC Women’s Champions 2011

The ladies event made for an exciting Sunday when Teresa Garland played for the hot seat against Stacy Decker and Marie Chhuon battled April Henley on the west side.

SOELDEN, Austria Olympic gold medalists Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) and Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA) will be at the start gate when the 2011 Audi FIS Alpine World Cup Cup tour kicks off this weekend in Soelden.

The 2010 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series begins this week with the NHK Trophy in Nagoya, Japan. Thirteen athletes from Team USA will compete against skaters from 14 other countries, all vying for points and prize money in this first of six events in the series. photo US Figure Skating

Las Palmas ? The date for the first run of the racing marathon Cycling Challenge in Gran Canaria has been set. On Friday the 25th of March 2011, tourism expert and marathon organizer Petra Wonisch and her team will send cyclists from all over the world on one of the most beautiful scenic marathon tracks of Europe.

The final two rounds of the 2010 Championship were held over the weekend and for Gail it was a case of what might have been. Earlier this year at the start of the season she had qualified first then rolled her car in the first race and registered a dnf and dns.

2010 Unite for HER nonproit organization is pleased to announce an increase in grants for 2011. The Gymnasts Unite Grant program was created to ease the emotional and inancial burden experienced by USAG women’s artistic gymnasts and their families due to breast cancer.

42nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, Rotterdam, 16-24 October. 20/11 - Womens Team Final

British Gymnastics announced today that a bid has been submitted for the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

The IAAF has the pleasure to announce the 10 10 female athletes who have been selected as candidates for the 2010 World Athlete of the Year Award.

Top Ultra Distance Athlete Suzy Degazon does Magic Mountain Triathlon. As we were leaving from home we were all up at 4.15am and out of the door by 4.45am, the drive was hassle free and we were soon at Lake Castaic.

Sprinter Katrina Hart was back training at the University of Bath Sports Training Village just four days after winning a Commonwealth Games gold medal in Delhi.

Two Russian youngsters upset the seeds yesterday with Anna Chakvetadze defeating third seed Li Na of China 64 62 in the first round of The Kremlin Cup. Elena Vesnina ousted Italian Flavia Pennetta in three sets 64 26 62. Gisela Dulko and Klara Zakopalova also out

England Hockey Newsletter-Wakefield Bradford, the only Women’s team to have a 100% record in the England Hockey league, had a 4-3 win away at bottom side Beeston to keep up the pressure in Women’s Conference North. photo John Coxon

Frank Warren, one of the countrys best known sports promoters, has joined forces with hockeys National Governing Body, the England Hockey Board (EHB), to officially launch an exciting bid to bring the 2014 hockey World Cups to London. photo Ady Kerry

Europe’s leading girl golfers will have a trip to Ireland on their minds when they tee up in the Girls’ British Open Amateur Championship, to be played at Gullane Golf Club, Scotland, on August 8-12 2011

Spanish rookie Beatriz Recari became a Rolex First-Time Winner Sunday when she shot a final-round, 2-under 70 to finish 14-under and win the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge at Blackhawk Country Club in Danville, Calif. by one shot over Gwladys Nocera.

Launching at Sheffield’s Motorpoint Arena next Easter (22-24 April 2011), the three-day, three star international showjumping event is set to be a first-class competition on the equestrian calendar and is scheduled to take place for the next three years.

Fourth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was defeated by Slovakian Kominika Cibulkova in three sets in the opening round the of The Kremlin Cup in Moscow Russia. Both Bondarenko sisters safely through to the next round.

Hooftklasse high-fliers SCHC’s, Caia van Maasakker, a member of the Netherlands Junior National squad had the lionesses’ share of the goals in her sides 7-0m mauling of Naomi Van As’s former team , hapless Klein Zwitserland. photos by John Coxon

Women's Football Cup Arabia 2010-It was a perfect start for Bahrain, under their coach Khalid Al Harban, who took a step closer towards qualifying for the semi-finals. Shaikha Al Anood Al Khalifa was the top scorer of the game with six goals.

Before flying out to Korea for this friendly tournament, Hope Powell had promised to give a run out to as many players as possible as she looks to form ‘the crux’ of her side ahead of next summer’s World Cup Finals.

Changes to the top of the icenetwork.com World Figure Skater Rankings are imminent as three of the four skaters occupying the No. 1 spots are either sitting out the 2010 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series or unlikely to compete in it.

Hosts Tunisia and defending champions Egypt both ended the first day of the 2010 Women's Junior African Nations Volleyball Championship victorious in Tunis on Thursday. photo FIVB