Women sport news

A little girl dressed head to toe in pink, grins from ear to ear as she bounces through the interactive village of the HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore. She looks as though all her birthdays have just come at once. In her eyes she’s done one better. By Ed Leech

Jana Lindsey (Black Hawk, SD) won the national aerial title Sunday at the 2009 Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships at Utah Olympic Park in Park City. photo doncookphoto.com

Matrix Fitness Systems a leading global commercial fitness equipment brand has signed up as the latest company to Sponsor Vision One racing and support Olympic cyclist Nicole Cooke in her quest to help young riders achieve their cycling ambitions and ensure medal success at London 2012.

She doesn’t drink. She doesn’t smoke. She hasn’t got time for a boyfriend. On the rare occasions when friends coax her out to a nightclub, she slips away after an hour or two. She thinks about boxing almost 24/7 and, before she competes, recites Psalm 18 like a mantra. Welcome to the world of Katie Taylor - pound for pound, the best female fighter on Planet Earth.

Snow in the early part of February forced the postponement of this Co-operative Netball Superleague match. For both sides it meant two matches in two days but Team Northumbria also had the added burden of a late finish on Saturday night against Mavericks before jumping on a plane to Bristol on Sunday.

Loughborough Lightning put up a strong fight against The Co-operative Netball Superleague leaders Team Bath in their own back yard on Saturday (7 March) as a late comeback saw them get within two points of their University rivals – the match finishing 47-45 to Bath.

England continued victorious in their World Cup campaign beating India by nine wickets in their first televised match of the tournament today.

Important contributions from captain Karen Rolton and opener Shelley Nitschke have helped get the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars’ ICC Women’s World Cup campaign back on track in a 61-run win against South Africa in Newcastle today.

The White Ferns beat The West Indies by 56 runs at The Bankstown Oval to sit on top of Group A, the only side in that group with two wins and by virtue of their two wins have qualified for the Super Six competition.

WORLD number one Reanne Evans stuttered to victory in the Connie Gough National Championship to claim a 16th title on the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association circuit. photo Mandy Fisher

The final World Cup event of the season brought the world’s best skaters to Salt Lake City where a number of world records and personal best times were set.

The London Rollergirls’ first full season is reaching its climax with our Championship Final on 25 April and a European Tournament we’re hosting on the 17th and 18th of July. We reckon this is the perfect time to bust out a full feature on the London Rollergirls, our three league teams, and the way the sport is spreading like wildfire in the UK and Europe. photo www.londonrollergirls.com

Leeds Carnegie put themselves into fourth spot after gripping match against Northern Thunder. Team Bath defeat Loughborough Lightning by two goals. Mavericks sweep Team Northumbria aside 32-51.

U.S. Womens National Team Head Volleyball Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) announced today the hiring of Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.) as the teams assistant coach/technical coordinator, a similar role he held with the 2008 Olympic Games gold-medal winning U.S. Mens National Volleyball Team. photo By USA Volleyball

In a sensational climax of the womens CIMB KL Open at Berjaya Times Square in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur today (Saturday), Natalie Grainger of the USA stunned defending champion Nicol David in five games - thus ending the 17-month, 56-match, unbeaten WISPA World Tour run by the world number one from Malaysia. photo WISPA

Robyn Hodgson from Scotland, prevailed in a tough U19 final in the Kane Mailing Welsh Junior Open Squash Championships in Cardiff to celebrate their first successes on the European Squash Federation Junior Circuit.

The Qualification for the 2009 Womens 17 European Championship took place over the weekend.

Marion Bartoli won her first Sony Ericsson WTA Tournament this year in Mexico defeating Chinas Li Na 64 63. This is the hard hitting Bartolis fourth WTA Tour title.

Perfect weather saw a perfect round by Korean sensation Jiyai Shin who shot another bogey-free round of 66 to capture the HSBC Women’s Champions by two strokes. Includes interviews with Jiyai Shin and Joey Poh. photo Getty Images

The British Synchronised Swimming team that was competing at the German Open showed their potential by claiming two bronze medals against world class competition.

OTTAWA – Canada’s National A Team wrapped up the German Open in style Sunday winning the gold medal in the Team Free Final.

The showdown between two New Zealand world wakeboarding champions at the New Zealand Wakeboarding Nationals on Saturday exceeded expectations, producing some of the best wakeboarding ever seen in New Zealand competition.

INAWASHIRO, Japan-Hannah Kearney (Norwich, VT) pulled out the stops Sunday to wrap up the 2009 FIS Freestyle Ski World Championships with a dual moguls bronze medal for the U.S.

Each year for the World Championships, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) offers three media scholarships to young journalists less than 35 years. For the H.I.S. 2009 World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama, Japan, the selected journalists are:

England Women were crowned champions of the IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens Plate in Dubai on Saturday night.

The Duckworth-Lewis method and an inopportune batting stumble conspired to give New Zealand a 13-run win over the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars in their opening ICC Women’s World Cup match at North Sydney Oval today.