Women sport news

A champion in her own right, the U.S. Freestyle Ski Teams Emily Cook (Belmont, MA) is a leader amongst her aerials peers. While she waits for her 2010 season to begin in December, Cooks focus is strong and set on being Vancouver Bound.

Sports Women of the year was held in London on third of November, runner up Heptathlete Jessica Ennis spoke to WSR. Questions by Stephanie Basten

Sport England announced that they are to allocate £10 million of National Lottery funding to an initiative aimed at getting more women from disadvantaged communities, and women caring for children, playing sport. Report by David Brenchley

The first of two FIVB Womens World Grand Champions Cup 2009 stops was completed in Tokyo with Olympic gold medalists Brazil and European champions Italy both collecting their third victory from as many matches on Thursday. photo FIVB

The womens European Cup competitions have arrived to their Last 16 stage. Though Round 4 will only be played in February 2010, the fixtures were decided by draw today in the EHF Headquarters, Vienna.

This 29th Stop of the Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup Series ended with perfection on many fronts. In temperatures reaching 35C, the 51 athletes from 15 countries were provided with outstanding facilities in Putrajaya Malaysia for this last event of the 2009 World Cup calendar.

Sport England announced that they are to allocate £10 million of National Lottery funding to an initiative aimed at getting more women from disadvantaged communities, and women caring for children, playing sport. Report by David Brenchley

A World time barrier was broken this weekend for the LC2-CP4 500 m time trial by USA’s Jennifer Schuble breaking the 39 second barrier and establishing a new World Record. GB’s Sarah Storey broke her personal 38 second barrier to record a personal best and gold in what really isn’t her speciality event. photo John Coxon

The Dominican Republic had to fight hard to recover from a disastrous first set and overcome a feisty performance from Thailand before claiming their first ever World Grand Champions Cup victory with a 14-25, 25-20, 25-21, 28-26 win on the second day of the FIVB 2009 Women’s World Grand Champions Cup on Wednesday. photo FIVB

Italy were expected to cruise to victory over South Korea in the FIVB 2009 Women’s World Grand Champions Cup on Wednesday, but the Koreans hadnt read the script. Italy still won, but had to come back from two sets down, finally winning 24-26, 24-26, 28-26, 25-19, 15-9 after more than two hours of play. photo FIVB

West Indies defeated England by five wickets to win the Twenty20 series 2-0 in St. Kitts with one match left to play.

World number three Bonney, 33, the four-time WLBSA world billiards champion, defeated Kent’s June Banks 3-0 in last year’s final. She returns to the Newmarket Snooker & Bowl bidding for a third WLBSA snooker title.

Anna Tunnicliffe joined the sailing worlds most prestigious list of winners last night, 10 November, as they were named winners of the 2009 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards at a spectacular ceremony held in Busan, South Korea. photo Daniel Forster Rolex

The two favourites Brazil and Italy were joined by hosts Japan in being successful on the opening day of the FIVB 2009 Women’s World Grand Champions Cup on Tuesday. photo FIVB

Freed from the responsibility of also being the tournament organiser, Canadas Alana Miller swept to victory in the Womens Flying Pig Open, the $7,100 WISPA World Tour squash event in its maiden year at the Cincinnati Country Club in Cincinnati in the US state of Ohio. photo WISPA

Less than 24 hours after beating the reigning world number one to record the best individual win of her career, Englands Jenny Duncalf claimed the biggest title of her life by winning the Womens Carol Weymuller US Open - beating her England team-mate Alison Waters

The England Womens A team to take on the world champions New Zealand on November 17th, kick off 7pm at Esher RFC, has today (Tuesday) been announced.

West Indies defeated England by 4 wickets in the first Twenty20 of the three match series in St Kitts.

HSBC today announced that they will title sponsor the HSBC Women’s Champions for the next three years with the 2010 tournament scheduled from the 25th to 28th of February in Singapore. photo Getty Images

Sasha Cohen, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, three-time World medalist and six-time U.S. medalist, announced today she will not compete at 2009 Cancer.Net Skate America because of an injury. She will be replaced by 2007 U.S. silver medalist Emily Hughes. photo Paul Harvath US figure skating

The Speed Skating season started in Berlin with fast times, and impressive track records by Shani Davis (USA), Jenny Wolf (GER), Christine Nesbitt (CAN) and Martína Sábliková (CZE). The times of Davis and Wolf were the fastest ever times on a lowland rink where times are usually slower because of the air resistance.

Ai Ueda took her first ITU Triathlon World Cup win of the year in Huatulco, Mexico, as the Japanese double Asian champion stretched away in the late stages of the race to cross the line in 2:12:47, ahead of Denmarks Helle Frederiksen and Jessica Harrison from France. photo David McColm/Triathlon.org

The U.S. Womens National Team dropped a 5-1 decision to Canada here tonight in the championship game of the 2009 Womens Four Nations Cup at Valtti Arena. photo Jeff Vinnick

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is proud to announce that its online video Spirit in Motion, produced by brandstage.tv for ParalympicSport.TV, has been awarded a Best in Show award in the Online Film/Video category from the 2009 International Davey Awards.

Loughborough Lightning kick off The Co-operative Netball Superleague season in style later this month at a special launch event hosted at Loughborough University.

Brazil will start as strong favourites to defend their 2005 title but five other contenders – Dominican Republic, Italy, Japan, Korea and Thailand – will all fancy their chances when the FIVB 2009 Women’s World Grand Champions Cup begins on Tuesday in the impressive Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. photo FIVB