Women sport news

Unbeaten Balmain needed a late penalty goal to seal a 7-all draw with Brisbane Barracudas women in a National Water Polo League match at Musgrave Park Pool yesterday. photo pearsephotography.com.au

PKRA the Globally Recognized Professional Kiteboarding Organization will once again bring back the new exciting race discipline to the international competition scene by hosting for the second consecutive year the Kiteboarding Course Racing World Tour.

Dee Caffari onboard her yacht Aviva completed a double world first at 13:13 (GMT) on 16 February 2009 by crossing the official finish line of the round the world Vendée Globe yacht race. photo OnEditon

LAAX is proud to announce the next great freestyle event, the Orage European Freeski Open by Swatch 2009, taking place from March 17 to 21, 2009. The highlight event of the European freeski season offers a total prize purse of US$ 50.000. photo Christian Stadler

Of the £9.325 billion in the public sector funding package that was announced in March 2007 for the 2012 London Olympic Games, £2.7 billion was marked as a contingency fund. However with a scarcity of credit in the economic downturn, the contingency fund has been put under scrutiny.

UCI World Cup Results Copenhagen. Sanchez, Guerra and Pendleton were among the 2009 winners in Ballerup. The next international event is the UCI World Track Cycling Championships in Poland on the 23rd of March 2009

World Champion Ann-Marie Saccurato makes HISTORY by becoming the first female figher to win the WBC World Championship on three separate occasions.

Public money will be used to maintain London’s Olympic stadium after the 2012 Games because organisers have failed in their bid to find a commercial operator to take it over.

The start of competition for Team GB at the 9th European Youth Olympic Festival in Poland saw some promising results for British athletes.

Minichiello, who does some of her training at the University of Bath, finished sixth in the final leg of the World Cup in Park City, the USA at the weekend.

Austrian veteran Carina Wasle thrilled the Austrian crowds by winning her first ITU Winter Triathlon World Championships on home soil today. photo ITU Media

England Captain Sue Day said: We left it late to win the game, but in the end we came good. We knew we had the fitness to keep going, so we just had to keeping working and hope that we got that winning try.

Harlequin Ladies ventured to Ealing to take on The Jades in a friendly match on Sunday 15th February. The Jades are a tricky side to gage. Even though they are in the league below Harlequin Ladies, they have proven to be formidable opponents in the past.

England’s Laura Davies won her second Australian Open after a dramatic final day at Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne.

Kelly Clark (Mt. Snow, VT) took to what will be the 2010 Olympic pipe Saturday to win a World Cup during test events for the Games at Cypress Mountain, BC.

Anna Sloan was selected to carry the Great Britain flag at today’s Opening Ceremony at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival (EYOWF) taking place in Slask-Beskidy, Poland.

Round 14 of The Co-operative Netball Superleague threw up a big surprise, as Glasgow Wildcats beat Brunel Hurricanes 48-42 in an electrifying match at Guildford Spectrum. The match between Mavericks and Northern Thunder in Hatfield drew in a decent crowd despite the weather.

Amelie Mauresmo spoiled an all-Top 4 seed semifinal line-up with a 62 60 upset of No.4 seed Agnieszka Radwanska. The Top 3 seeds all moved on, including a fighting Jelena Jankovic.

Magdalena Rybarikova stunned Caroline Wozniacki to mark up a semifinal showdown against Sania Mirza at the PTT Pattaya Open. Vera Zvonareva and Shahar Peer will also do battle. 

Laura Enever (North Narrabeen, NSW) stamped her class, talent and authority on junior female surfing today, taking the Billabong Pro Junior Coffs Harbour in style. photo ASP

The third race (15km in length) of the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix 2009 on February 14 in Viedma (ARG) brought another victory for Britta Kamrau-Corestein (GER), who now has 3 medals in 3 races after winning silver in Santa Fe (ARG) on February 1 and gold in Rosario (ARG) on February 7.

After overcoming the odds and placing second in the first run of women\'s slalom Saturday, double World Champion Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) crashed early in her second and did not finish. Maria Riesch of Germany, sixth in the first run, won while Resi Stiegler (Jackson Hole, WY) finished 19th. photo Doug Haney US Ski Team

The British Olympic Association (BOA) today announced the athletes selected to represent Team GB at the 9th European Youth Olympic Winter Festival (EYOWF) in Slask Beskidy, Poland between 14-21 February

A total of 43 players have been nominated for the 2009 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, presented annually to the top player in NCAA Division I womens ice hockey. Nominations for the honor, which is presented by the USA Hockey Foundation, were made by NCAA Division I womens ice hockey head coaches.

The England Women’s Cricket Team were today awarded the Team of the Year at The Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Awards for the second time in four years.

The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars have retained the Rose Bowl after today’s fifth and deciding match against New Zealand was abandoned due to rain in Wellington