Women sport news

Serena Williams defeated Lucie Safarova 63 62 to continue into the semi finals of the Rogers Cup. Dementieva, Kleybanova and Sharapova also advance.

Switzerlands Nicola Spirig powered her way to victory today at the London Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship Series. After exiting the water behind the leaders, Spirig pulled herself into the front group on the bike and then tagging at the front of the run, bolted away in the last 200 metres from Swedens Lisa Norden to take her first Dextro Energy Triathlon. photo DellyCarr/Triathlon.org

Swedens Lisa Norden finally took victory at todays Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU World Championship Series leg in Yokohama, Japan. The 24 year old Swede ended her streak of three silver medals with gold in a thrilling three woman sprint with a time of 1 hour 55 minutes and 56 seconds. photo DellyCarr/Triathlon.org

USA Hockey today announched the launching of its new Come Play Youth Hockey campaign, a program geared to educate the parents of four- to eight-year-olds on the benefits of youth hockey.

Twenty-one-year-old Dani Samuels has become Australias first gold medallist of the 12th IAAF world championships and the youngest world discus champion in history after taking out the gold medal overnight with a new personal best performance in Berlin.

Felix makes it a hatric in Berlin by winning the 200m Gold three times in a row. Im just extremely happy. Three times is very special, even more special to take place in this stadium with so much history. I dont think I could have asked for more tonight!.

Next months Forexx Women’s World Open Squash Championship in Amsterdam has already attracted more than 100 entrants - more than ever before in the 30-year history of the premier event on the Womens International Squash Players Association (WISPA) World Tour.

A statement from World Squash Federation President N Ramachandran in response todays IOC Executive Board Announcement

Today marks the one year countdown to the kick-off of the IRB Womens Rugby World Cup in London.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today confirmed there will be 10 sailing events at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Australia meet New Zealand in the final of the World Youth Netball Championships. Australia defeated England 63-42, New Zealand defeated Jamaica 57-44.

After 40 matches and nearly one week of action at the 2009 Women’s 19 European Championship in Hungary, the tournament has arrived to its final phase.

Loughborough University’s women’s tennis team has made it through to the finals of the AEGON Team Tennis National Open to reach the top eight for the first time since gaining promotion to Division one in 2005.

England Women were crowned Nations Cup champions last night (Wednesday) after a bonus point victory against South Africa in the third round on the round-robin tournament in Toronto.

Age old rivals met once again on the green field of Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario. Canada and the United States faced off for the fourth round of the 2009 Women’s Nations Cup.

The new England women’s home kit will be worn in a competitive match for the first time on Tuesday 25th August when England begin their 2009 European Championship campaign against Italy in Finland.

England’s Kelly Tidy was Europe’s top scorer in the PING Junior Solheim Cup match at Aurora Country Club, Illinois, USA, with a 100 per cent record of three wins.

For the second year in a row, a Chicago Bandits has been awarded National Pro Fastpitch ‘Rookie of the Year’ honors. The Nokona American Glove Rookie of the Year award, given to Tammy Williams on Wednesday night as part of the NPF Fan Fest and Awards Ceremony, was just one of seven awards the Chicago Bandits received.

Kelly Clark (Mt. Snow, VT) dropped in for her seasons first win Saturday as she bested the field in typical Clark fashion at the Burton New Zealand Open.

1. At what age did you realise your ambition to become a NASCAR driver? It was at the young age of 10 when I first fell in love with the sport . Interview by Jenna Davies

The announcement by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to include women’s amateur boxing in the programme for the London 2012 Olympics has been acclaimed as a historic decision by a wide cross-section from sport and politics.

Former Rogers Cup Champion Kim clijsters won her first match back on Canadian Soil after defeating Britains Elena Baltacha in straight sets. The major upset was number 3 seed Venus Williams was defeated by Kateryna Bondarenko of the Ukraine.

South Africa remains the lone winless team at the 2009 Women’s Nations Cup and will face a tough challenge coming up against heavy tournament favorites England on Wednesday.

The Euro 2009 is fast approaching, listed below are the Group matches.

St Johns’ Claire Duke returned from the XIII Asia Pacific Championships in Kuala Lumpur yesterday harboring mixed emotions.

Home favourite Whitney Mcclintock won the World Waterski Championships in Alberta Canada. She won the Slalom and Tricks events combined with her jumping result she won the overall title.