Women sport news

Reanne Evans (Dudley) won the Connie Gough National Championship in Birmingham. Hannah Jones (Derby) won the Plate and the junior title. Gaye Jones (Melksham, Wiltshire) won the Seniors’ title

South Koreas success at the Vancouver Olympic Games 2010, produced the star of the games Kim Yu-Na and was worth a staggering 20.2 trillion to the countrys economy

Brazilian Fail in Bid to Retain Titles - at the Latin American Championships on the Mexican city of Cancun on Saturday 6th March 2010

At around the age of four, I remember begging my older sisters, Aleczina and Amie to let me play with them.

Rocky Mountain Rollergirls March 6 Bout Sells Out Fillmore

Hertfordshire Mavericks have moved back to third place in the Co-operative netball Superleague table after a 55-37 home win against Team Northumbria.

Netball America announced they will showcase the sport in front of an estimated 17,000 NBA fans at the Staples Center in Los Angeles April 4th and in front of an estimated WNBA crowd of 14,000 for the first time at Madison Square Garden in NYC May 16th. April 4th Check out some of the country’s top netballers at The Staples Center plus more

The 2010 Winter Paralympics begin March 12 in Vancouver, but in Denver this weekend, there are Summer Paralympic hopefuls beginning their march toward the London Games in 2012.

Rising French star Camille Serme is celebrating her first appearance in the semi-finals of a WISPA World Tour Gold event after upsetting third seed Rachael Grinham, the former world number one from Australia, in todays (Friday) quarter-finals of the $53,500 Chennai Open Squash Championships at the Indian Squash Academy in Chennai, India.

Rugby league a sport for rough, tough men? Try telling that to Nagibe Hamzeh (pictured). The Kfarhabou High School sport’s teacher has rapidly made strides in what some Lebanese would consider the most masculine of pastimes.

She now joins an illustrious list of sports men and women who have scooped the crown, including Olympic Gold Medal winner Dame Kelly Holmes and rugby greats Rory Underwood and Rob Wainwright.

With number one bowler Jhulan Goswami not fit, Mithali Raj led India to victory in the second Twenty20 game of the series, at the Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai. India won by 30 runs finishing 126 for seven, with England all out for 96 in 19.2 overs.

When asked by LBC’s leading current affairs programme Kalam Al Nass to participate in a feature for International Women’s Day, Her Excellency Frances Guy, British ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, insisted on conducting the interview at the Middle East North Africa Under-16s Rugby League Championship at AUB’s Green Field.

Japans Ai Miyazato shot 69 in the final round of the third-annual HSBC Womens Champions to win the second-consecutive event of the 2010 LPGA season.

Fans of the World Championship-winning Opals of 2006 will have the opportunity to watch the current icon of Australian basketball, Lauren Jackson, battle future superstar Liz Cambage in the WNBL Grand Final on Saturday. photo FIBA

Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 22, reigning three-time ASP Womens World Champion and defending event winner, has taken out the 2010 Roxy Pro Gold Coast in punchy two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves at Snapper Rocks over fellow Finalist Melanie Bartels (HAW), 27.

The Head skis and Leki poles, which feature Ellens face and Vonns autograph, are up for grabs at www.ebay.com until 3:12 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 9 with all proceeds from the auction benefiting the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund.

High winds forced the cancellation of today’s ladies super combined in Crans Montana, SUI delaying what was supposed to be the resumption of World Cup alpine ski racing following the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Canada’s Brydon to earn GM vehicle after finishing 10th overall in ladies super combined standings. photo Alpine Canada

The ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2010 will open in The Hague, The Netherlands, on March 9. The Hague is hosting the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships for the second time. The first time the event was held in The Hague in 2004.

Yelena Isinbeyeva and Sany Richards will compete in the 36th annual Prefontaine Classic on Saturday 3rd July.

TeamBath take on long-time rivals Loughborough Lightning tomorrow at 5.30pm at the University’s Sports Training Village in the first of four big home matches this month in the Cooperative netball superleague.

2009 World Champions and World Tour No. 3 April Ross and Jennifer Kessy are set to take part in a four-team Women’s Beach Volleyball Tournament to celebrate the Bicentennial of Mexican Independence from March 5 to 7 in Puerto Vallarta. photo FIVB

Both Slovakian players through to the Monterrey Open Quarter Finals. Second seed Daniela Hantuchova made it through in two sets while Dominika Cibulkova had a little tough fighting to win a three set match against Italys Sara Errani.

Hope Powell, was in buoyant mood after her England Womens side ended their Cyprus Cup campaign with a 3-2 win against Italy in the play-off for fifth place.

Two national girls champions are included in the English Womens Golf Association squad for the Scottish U16 open strokeplay championship at Strathmore from 8-9 April.

England international Hannah Barwood (pictured) has reached the quarter finals of the Spanish women’s international amateur championship at Pals, Girona.