Women sport news

MOSCOW (EuroLeague Women) - Spartak Moscow Region remained on course for a third straight title in the EuroLeague Women but only after surviving a tense Game 3 in their play-off Quarter-Final with Ros Casares. photo FIBA

Time for surf action! As 11 members of the British Junior Surf team face a massive £11,000 invoice from the BSA, to surf for Britain at the world junior championships to be held in Ecuador at the end of March.

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has published the Notice of Race for the 2009 ISAF Womens Match Racing World Championship, the leading annual event for the new Olympic discipline set to debut at the 2012 London Games.

US SAILING and Rolex Watch U.S.A. today announced a four-year sponsorship through the year 2012. The agreement between the two parties highlights Rolex’s continued support of US SAILING events and programs.

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) announced today that The Case Book for 2009-2012, which contains interpretations of The Racing Rules of Sailing, has been released and published on the ISAF website - www.sailing.org.

Finland led much of the race to take the gold Thursday in the womens team event at the 2009 FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in the Czech Republic. The USA finished 14th. photo Doug Haney US Ski Team

The BRITS 2009 and SNO!zone, the UK’s largest indoor snow slope operator, are pleased to announce their continued partnership on and off the slopes at this year’s BRITS when they take the title rights for the SNO!zone British Halfpipe Championships and host the SNO!zone Drum and Bass night in association with Cushe and Metrosnow.co.uk.

New England\\\'s own Mochelle Gorgone (Boston) led the way for the U.S. alpine snowboarders Thursday, finishing sixth in a parallel giant slalom at the 2009 Visa U.S. Snowboarding Cup at Sunday River Resort in Maine.

Britain will this year hold a GB World Cup for both Men & Women, which will be the biggest judo World Cup ever held in Britain.

Britain’s women sliders are all well placed at the halfway mark of the 2009 Skeleton World Championships, with Amy Williams in fourth and both Shelley Rudman and Donna Creighton also featuring in the top-10. photo Bryn Vaile, Matchtight Ltd

Olympic discus champion Stephanie Brown Trafton is the seventh Beijing gold medallist joining a stellar cast of international stars set to compete in Sydney this Saturday night and Melbourne next Thursday.

A field including Olympic and World Championships medalists will vie for national titles at the 2009 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships February 28-March 1 at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Boston.

Olympic javelin fourth-placer Goldie Sayers (Belgrave Harriers) has been named in the Aviva Great Britain & Northern Ireland Team for the European Cup – Winter Throwing event in Los Realejos, Tenerife on 14/15 March. The annual competition always attracts high-quality fields packed with Europe’s elite throwers.

2006 Commonwealth heptathlon bronze medallist Jessica Ennis (City of Sheffield) will return to national competition on 28th February ,at the McCain Indoor City Challenge (ICC) Final at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff photo PA

Three seeds were defeated today in the second round of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel Cup in Acapulco. Suarez Navarro, Dulko and Martinez Sanchez all went down, while defending champion Flavia Pennetta, Venus Williams and Iveta Benesova all continue their Mexican campaigns.

English strokeplay champion Jodi Ewart has tied for her fourth individual victory on the US women’s college circuit – and equalled her university’s all-time record.

The 2009 Kitespeed World Championships will be hosted in Port Saint Louis du Rhone. The battle will be between Bredenkamp and Consorti, one not to be missed.

The ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2009 continued Thursday in Sofia, Bulgaria with the Original Dance

A British women’s cycling team is to compete for the first time in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour in Cape Town, South Africa.

Members of the jubilant ParalympicsGB team attended a reception at Buckingham Palace yesterday, hosted by Her Majesty the Queen in recognition for their achievements in Beijing last summer.

Jamaica came out with all guns blazing at the series match 2 played in Coventry last night. It was a physical match which resulted in many players ending up on the floor. With Awesome shooting by Louisa Brownfield England secured the match 57-47.

Top seed Milou van der Heijden emerged triumphant in the U19 finals in the French Junior Open Squash Championships.

The body was called together following the direct disqualification of Renate Urne in the last seconds (59:57) of the Womens EHF Cup second leg match between HC Leipzig/ GER and HCM Baia Mare/ ROU.

Eurohandball.com talks to a Montenegrin talent, the 17-year old line player Suzana Lazovic, who scored three goals in Ljubljana last weekend. photo EHF

Referee and delegate nominations for the quarterfinal matches of the Womens EHF Cup, Challenge Cup and Cupwinners Cup. The matches will take place on March 14/15 (first leg) and March 21/22 (second leg).

Tennis Legends Steffi Graf and Kim Clijsters will grace us with their presence at the Celebratory opening of the New Centre Court Roof on Sunday 17th May. With players of the calibre this test event promises to be hugely entertaining.