Women sport news

“I’m really pleased with the game. I came off the bench, but the girls started well and we all carried that on. I have to give all credit to Kazakhstan. They hit us hard, they disrupted our ball and they played to the end.

It was 21 year old Jemma Kirk from West Lothian, Edinburgh that took the first place prize money riding Robert Kirk’s 14 year old bay gelding Wexford.

Malaysia’s world number one Nicol David is set to equal Australian Sarah Fitz-Gerald’s record five women’s world squash titles in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Soho Square at Sharm El Sheikh next month, according to the draw for The Soho Square World Open revealed today by the Women’s International Squash Players’ Association (WISPA).

The World Cup snowball of Canada’s National Senior Women’s team is growing after a 40-10 victory over Sweden in London, England.

COLORADO SPRINGS (FIBA World Championship for Women) - United States coach Geno Auriemma has named four additions to his squad for the FIBA World Championship for Women, but the big talking point was a player not called.

MELBOURNE (FIBA World Championship for Women) - Lauren Jackson, Kristi Harrower and Belinda Snell are all back to defend the gold medal they won in Brazil four years ago.

Julie Keegan’s Delhi preparations spiked dramatically today (23/8) as the Commonwealth Games bound lawn bowler advanced to the quarter-finals of the Australian Indoor Championships at Tweed Heads.

On August 29th / 30th, the Waterski and Wakeboard World Cup series will celebrate the staging of its 30th Stop of this series in ChunCheon City, South Korea.

The heat is on for the 500m Finals. The temperature really went through the roof for the last day of competition at the World Championships, here in Poznan, when winners of the last 17 medals were contested.

U.S. Women's Under-22 Select Team Drops 7-2 Decision to Canada iin Final Game of 2010 Women's Under-22 Series

Bonn, Germany - After six days of competition inside the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium, the 2010 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World Championships finished with the Open Water event at E3 Beach in Eersel, the Netherlands.

Sarah Storey was competing in the C5 women’s road race with 5 laps of the tough circuit to complete. After the surprise 2nd place the Polish rider Anna Harkowska achieved in the time trial, Storey knew almost certainly her biggest challenge would come from the Pole and the race did not disappoint! photo Barney Storey

Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas) scored a personal international career-high 25 points in leading the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team to a 25-20, 25-10, 22-25, 25-22 victory over China on Sunday afternoon during Pool G of the 18th World Grand Prix in Hong Kong.

Germany's former world No6 Sabine Schoene is set to star in this week's World Masters Squash Championships in Cologne where she is the only local player seeded to win one of the 17 titles on offer in the World Squash Federation event being staged in Germany for the first time in its 34-year history.

Highly-rated national representative Anastasia Rodionova will headline Australia’s tennis campaign at the Commonwealth Games in India in October, where tennis will make its Games debut.

Darlington Mowden Park Sharks fly half Katy McLean will skipper England during their second Women’s Rugby World Cup (WRWC) encounter against Kazakhstan on Tuesday August 24th at Surrey Sports Park, Guildford, kick off 630pm.

The U.S. Girls' Youth Olympic Volleyball Team advanced to the Youth Olympic Games semifinal round by defeating Egypt (0-2) 25-18, 25-19, 25-23 on Monday afternoon to win Pool B of the Youth Olympic Games being played in Singapore through Aug. 26.

Isabelle Li's dream run in the Youth Olympic Games table tennis girls singles competition ended with a silver medal this evening when she lost 0-4 to China's Gu Yuting in the final at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

A fierce battle saw Keighley Cats crowned champions, but only after Saima Hussain broke the deadlock with a Golden Point score. The game was tight throughout as the teams who finished top of the Yorkshire League and latterly the Championship Play-Off League did battle one final time for 2010.

Strong pitching performances and solid hitting from the Bandits (30-19) was the formula to slow down the recently hot Tennessee Diamonds (15-33) Saturday as the Bandits swept the Tennessee ballclub in a double-header at Judson University in Elgin, Ill.

At our seven-year itch Marathon Open MTB Gran Canaria will take place again in Maspalomas from 26 to 27 of March, 2011. After the great success of the last year this event promises going to be supreme.

Sherone WIlliams, Debbie Dunn and Becky Heidler were amongst the winners at the ISAFT Berlin on Saturday.

Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) scored a match-high 16 points in leading the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team to a fifth straight victory with a 25-16, 25-16, 25-16 win over Thailand on Saturday afternoon in Hong Kong during Pool G of the 18th FIVB World Grand Prix.

England and Saracens flanker Maggie Alphonsi said: “We won but we still need to work on a few things. Our next game is Kazakhstan so we need to go out and produce the goods. No game is comfortable in this tournament. There are 11 other great teams.

The British Disability Swimming Team, powered by British Gas, concluded their IPC Swimming World Championship campaign with a total of 16 gold medals after Daniel Pepper added to the impressive medal tally on the final evening.

Sweden's Lisa Norden topped reigning ITU World Champ Emma Moffatt to take the first-ever ITU Sprint Triathlon World Championship in Lausanne