Women sport news

The biggest honour in Women’s Gymnastics for 2009 was decided in dramatic style at the O2 arena tonight. After a pair of solid and powerful vaults, American’s Rebecca Bross (top qualifier) who is coached by Valeri Liukin and teammate Bridget Sloan, a member of the Olympic team in 2008, never looked back on their way to an American one, two.

After defeat to Australia in the first match of the Co-operative International Series the last thing England head coach Sue Hawkins wanted her side to do was start by giving the ball away or fail to convert the centre pass. photo Vaughn@swpix

Top seed Caroline Wozniacki holds on to her top spot after defeating Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak in three sets. Stosur, Mirza and Schiavone all through.

Australia remained undefeated in the women\'s divisions when the preliminary rounds of the Indoor Cricket World Cup concluded in Brisbane on Thursday night, but the hosts are set to face a stern test in the upcoming major semi finals.

ANTANANARIVO (21st FIBA Africa Championship for Women) – Cameroon forward, Amina Njonkou bids the 21st FIBA Africa Championship for Women holding in Madagascar goodbye after sustaining a kneel injury in her country third group-A against the Lioness of Senegal. photo CMR

Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, Fla.) and her team of Molly OBryan Vandemoer (Redwood City, Calif.), Liz Bower (Rochester, N.Y.) and Debbie Capozzi (Bayport, N.Y.) have won US SAILINGs 2009 Rolex International Womens Keelboat Championship. Photo credit: Rolex / Dan Nerney

Gymnasts of all ages from Honiton Gymnastics Club wowed a 1,500-strong crowd at the London Festival of Gymnastics last weekend.

Australia will finish the preliminary rounds of the 2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup atop the standing in the womens division after yet another fine performance in Brisbane on Wednesday, but the jockeying amongst the other nations for the remaining positions in the finals is heating up.

The World Gymnastics Championships at the O2 Arena is the first international sporting event to be held at a 2012 Olympic venue, with the eyes of the World on the management of the event as well as the gymnastics.

Australia showed why they are still the world’s best team after coming on strong to make it a convincing win over England in the Co-operative International Series maintaining their impressive test record against their great rivals. photo ben@swpix

The Australian Diamonds have defeated England 55-44 in an encouraging display in Bath this morning. Coming off the altered format of the game at the World Netball Series in Manchester the Diamonds showed poise and skill to overrun the English by 11-goals. photo Micheal Bradley

GREAT Britain Women take on Austria in Feldkirchen on Wednesday evening as their 2010 European Handball Championship campaign continues.

This will be the first occasion that all the national teams take part in the qualification – similarly to what we have seen at the recently concluded Men’s EHF EURO Qualification.

Australias defence of the womens Indoor Cricket World Cup titles continued to gather momentum in Brisbane on Tuesday, extending their undefeated streak at the tournament to five matches.

A new 50 pence coin to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, designed by nine-year-old Florence Jackson from Bristol, will be officially launched today.

Team USA netminder Jessie Vetter (Cottage Grove, Wis.) was today named the Sportswoman of the Year at the Womens Sports Foundations 30th Annual Salute to Women in Sports Awards Dinner at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel. Vetter, who was recognized for her accomplishments with both the U.S.

The inaugural Co-operative World Netball Series has been won by New Zealand’s Silver Ferns after a weekend of surprises at the Manchester arena.

Japans Kimiko Date Krumm was defeated by American veteran Jill Craybas in three sets in the first round of the Japan Womens Open on Tuesday. Krumm took the second set but couldnt hold in and lost the third 6-4. Ayumi Morita also lost. Kurumi Nara continues her quest going into the second round.

Australia has continued its undefeated run at the 2009 Indoor Cricket World Cup with a commanding 70-run win over title threats South Africa on Monday in Brisbane.

The people of Singapore looked on with intrigue and confusion as the red bodies carried out cycling movements and manoeuvred through the crowds with bicycle bell.

LIU Shiwen won the Volkswagen 2009 Women’s World Cup in Guangzhou. The 18 year old overcame her compatriot GUO Yue in seven games 11-5, 9-11, 7-11, 12-10, 11-3, 3-11, 11-3. photo Ding Zhiliang

New Zealand were handed the trophy yesterday after winning the all new World Netball Championships in Manchester. They defeated the powerful Sunshine girls by 5 goals.

Former World Number 1 Justine Henin, who said last month she was making a return to top-level tennis, has been granted a wildcard for the 2010 Australian Open.

After an exhausting five year journey and nearly 80 year absence from the Olympic games rugby was successfully added for the 2016 summer games in Rio de Janeiro and the 2020 games the host venue of which is still to be awarded.

Australia kicked off its defence of the womens Indoor Cricket World Cup title in stylish fashion on the opening day of the tournament in Brisbane on Sunday.

After an absence of more than a century, golf will return as an Olympic sport in 2016 along with rugby sevens following their approval by the International Olympic Committee membership during the IOC’s 121st Session.