Women sport news

Blanca MANCHON (ESP) has made the most of the Spanish event, winning six races in the Women’s RS:X, including the Medal Race. She added 20 points to her impressive ISAF Sailing World Cup Standings score now at 58 points!

Britains archers were in good form with four medals, including a silver for Alison Williamson , at the opening World Cup event of the season in the Dominican Republic.

Jelena Jankovic looks on course in the first competition in Andalucia for 2009. She defeated number 4 seed Anabel Medina Garrigues in two sets lasting 2 hours 15 minutes. She faces Spaniard Carla Navarro who defeated Sorana Cirstea in three sets

England won the second of their two matches against Ireland in Dublin today after coming from behind to beat an experienced Ireland side 3-1 courtesy of goals from Beijing Olympians Alex Danson and Kate Walsh, and a first senior international goal from Katie Long.

Spartak Moscow Region and their cast of international superstars captured a third straight EuroLeague Women title over the weekend in Salamanca, Spain. photo FIBA Europe

Netball fans world wide are in for a treat as the playing schedule for the fast approaching World Netball Series is announced.

Despite a 33-save effort by U.S. netminder Molly Schaus (Natick, Mass.), the U.S. Women\'s National Team was edged by Canada, 2-1, in the qualifying round of the 2009 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women\'s Championship here tonight at the Patria Arena.

Women’s National Selection Panel (WNSP) have announced the preliminary Australia squad to contest the ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England.

Congratulations to Ellis Keenan (Sunningdale GC) who beat Kate Shepherd (Guildford Ladies) 2/1 to win the 2009 Surrey Ladies Championship.

Helena Lucas scooped Britain’s first medal of the ISAF Sailing World Cup event in Palma, Majorca, on Thursday (9 April), with British sailors poised in six more podium spots heading into the final day of racing on Good Friday. Skandia Team GBR/Richard Langdon

Twenty-nine Paralympic athletes, including eight track & field medalists from the 2008 Paralympic Games, will compete at the upcoming 2009 Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., April 17-18.

Responding to the request of the nations widely and regularly practising the sport of Ice Sledge Hockey, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board has approved an entry provision to allow qualified teams for the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games to enter female athletes to their roster should they wish.

Bianca Buitendag stamped her authority on the Pro Junior (U20) girls surfing in South Africa by winning the U20 girls title in the first Billabong Junior Series event of 2009 and denting a few male egos by advancing to the last eight in the U16 boys division on a dramatic Day 3 at Scottburgh on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast on Friday.

Detail Events, organisers of the Edinburgh Rat Race, are calling on all young multi-sport enthusiasts between the ages of 14 and 18 to sign up now for a new youth team event as part of Scotlands coolest urban adventure challenge.

Beijing 2008 Paralympian and University of Bath student Katrina Hart was named winner of a top award at the Npower Midlands Disability Sports Awards.

Comfortable wins for our top teams, defending champs Swifts on top form after cruising past the Tactix in the first round. Read more for the second round schedule which takes place on Saturday

Natalie Darwitz (Eagan, Minn.) and Hilary Knight (Hanover, N.H.) each scored three times and Jessie Vetter (Cottage Grove, Wis.) turned aside all 16 shots in leading the U.S. Womens National Team to a 7-0 shutout victory over Finland here tonight in the qualifying round of the 2009 International Ice Hockey Federation World Womens Championship at the Patria Arena. photo Images on ice.

Internationals Hannah Barwood and Rachel Connor will represent England in the Nations Cup event at the Helen Holm Scottish open strokeplay championship at Troon from April 24-26.

ST LOUIS (NCAA Women’s Tournament) - The University of Connecticut put an exclamation point on another dominating season in womens college basketball with a 76-54 demolition of Louisville in Tuesday’s NCAA Final in St Louis. photo www.ncaa.com

Synchro Canada is pleased to announce the selections for the National ‘AA’ Team and National ‘A’ Team have been finalized in preparation for the upcoming competitive season. Veuillez trouver ci-joint le communique pour la selection de l’Équipe nationale AA et de l’Équipe nationale A.

Britain’s sailors made the best of a long and frustrating day on the water on day four of the ISAF Sailing World Cup event in Palma, Majorca, on Wednesday. photo Steve Irish/RYA

The Egypt Junior Open in Cairo will be held during the Easter holidays from Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th April 2009. Players from five continents (Latin America, North America, Asia, Europe and Africa) will compete in Singles, Doubles and Team events. photo ITTF Chinas Girls National Team , Gold medallist in Cairo in 2006.

Great Britain has finished the 2009 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships with a superb medal haul – 2 Gold, 2 Silver and a Bronze medal.

2009 (Tampa, FL) – Tune in Saturday, April 12, as NBC showcases the 2008 Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3, presented by Ford, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. EST.

Egypt’s Al Ahly Women’s team became the Queens of Africa for the sixth time in their history after their victory over Kenya Commercial Bank in the 2009 Women’s African Clubs Championship final in front of 3,000 home spectators here at Moi International Sports Complex of Kasarani in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday. photo FIVB

Rachael Grinham is one match away from extending her lead as the current player with the most WISPA World Tour final appearances after despatching Dutch opponent Orla Noom in the quarter-finals of the On The Run Heliopolis Open, the womens $20,000 WISPA World Tour squash event at the Heliopolis Sporting Club in Cairo.