Women sport news

TeamBath will begin the task of choosing the team to defend the Co-operative Superleague title on Thursday (8th October).

Nicol David, who last month became world champion for the fourth time, extends her lead at the top of the October Womens World Rankings, the latest list published today (Thursday) by the Womens International Squash Players Association (WISPA).

The LPGA State Farm Classic has renewed its contract with title sponsor, State Farm® through 2011, Executive Director Kate Peters announced today. The tournament will celebrate a milestone 35th anniversary in 2010, making it one of the longest running tournaments on the Tour.

Azahara Muñoz won the Madrid Ladies Masters on her professional debut on Saturday, beating LPGA Major Champion Anna Nordqvist at the first playoff hole.

Australian ace Sharyn Renshaw is ready to leave her mark on next week’s $30,000 Janome NSW Open at Taren Point Bowling Club.

World number five Karen Murphy is well aware that she is just one win away from immortality at next week’s $30,000 Janome NSW Open at Taren Point Bowling Club.

Laura Enever (North Narrabeen, NSW) battled massive waves and challenging conditions today as she conquered the Billabong Pro Junior Bells Beach in style.

Silvana Lima (BRA), 24, won the Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic this afternoon over reigning two-time ASP Women’s World Champion and current ASP Women’s World No. 1 Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 21, in stormy three-to-five foot (1.5 metre) conditions at Dee Why in an action packed Final, marking back-to-back wins for the hungry Brazilian after claiming the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach.

Did you know that headaches affect three times more women than men? Worse, the disease can have a greater overall impact on the lives of women.

We are really happy to be able to confirm that we are establishing a new Women’s racing team for 2010. The team has great backing from sponsors that have been involved in the sport already. They know what to expect and are the right partners for this project.

On Saturday October 24th the Wicked Wheelers take on the Rolling Thundercats in the 2009 Season Championship! The Wheelers go into this bout hoping to regain the Championship title, since beating the Thundercats in a nailbitter bout back in 2006.

Marta Domínguez of Spain has been voted the 2009 winner of the womens European Athlete of the Year Award presented by MONDO.

Acquiring new phrases from market traders to peer leaders, students began piecing together their Nianja in preparation for placements. Though English is the national language of Zambia, directing children during coaching sessions has proved difficult. Communication barriers exist not only from the misunderstanding of words, but also from the unfamiliarity of phrases used.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today Rio de Janeiro as the host city for the 2016 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, beating out Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid through secret balloting of the 106-member IOC body at Copenhagen, Denmark.

The EHF Women\'s Champions League arrived to the Qualification Tournaments 2 with four groups played from Friday to Sunday. The winners of these groups will secure their places among the 16 best women\'s teams and take part in the Group Matches.

Maria Sharapova won her first WTA Tour of 2009 , maybe not the way she would have wanted. Jankovic retired due to a right wrist injury. Kleybanova/Schiavone def Hantuchova/Sugiyama in straight sets to take the doubles victory.

Charlie “Hillbilly” Bryant cleaned up at Bradley’s N Billiards in San Antonio, Texas at the seventh stop on the 09 Lone Star Billiards Tour event held September 25th-27th.

ISAF received nominations for the 2009 Awards from across the world for sailors representing all aspects of the sport. In deciding the nominees, the achievements of sailors made during the qualifying period of 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009 are taken into consideration. Photo credit: Rolex / Kurt Arrigo

A 21-year old RAF Officer Cadet student, Gemma Lamont, who hails from Scotland, has done ‘a bit of dinghy sailing and some yachting’ during her service with the RAF, but nothing remotely significant compared to her latest sailing challenge on Exercise TRANSGLOBE

Sports social networking portal tourlegends.com introduces Player Registration Management (PRM), a newly released module to allow sports clubs to register members and collect subscriptions as well as payments on-line using PayPal.

Singapore’s LI Isabelle Siyun was the dominating player at the Chile Junior and Cadet Open in Chile. The 15 year old won the Cadet Girls’ Singles as well as the title in the Junior event, dedicated for players up to 18 years. Photo By: Cristian Larrai

Sadly due to a persistent knee injury his counterpart in the women’s division, triple-winner Lornah Kiplagat of the Netherlands, will not be taking part in the IAAF / EDF Energy World Half Marathon Championships in Birmingham, UK on Sunday 11 October 2009.

Brazil, Argentina and Peru got off to strong starts at the South American Women’s Championships on Wednesday with straight-sets victories that put the trio at the top of their respective groups. photo FIVB

Maria Sharapova and Jelena Jankovic continue into the final of the Toray Open after semi final wins against Li Na and Agnieszka Radwanska. Jankovic is looking for her third WTA win of the year while Sharapova is looking for her first. Sharapova holds a 4-1 head-to-head lead over Jankovic, and 3-0 on hard (they are 1-1 on grass).

We would like to begin by thanking Snookers Sports, Billiards, Bar and Grill for hosting the fifth stop of the New England Women’s Pool Tour at their brand new location in Providence, RI.

At the Cheshire Women’s Cricket League Dinner, Emma Barlow, Gillian Spragg and Lauren Griffiths were the major winners. As well as collecting her Poynton team’s League Championship and Twenty20 trophies, Spragg also scooped the league’s first division bowling award.