Women sport news

British champion Chemmy Alcott raced to a personal best finish in the FIS World Championship Super G discipline in the race held at Val D’Isere in France earlier today, less than 12 weeks after breaking her ankle in a training accident in Canada.

It was a déjà vu Sunday. One week after her X Games victory Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) took to the top of the podium again, winning the first stop of the Visa Snowboardcross Championship Series at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix presented by Visa at Boreal Resort.

After an outstanding 20-year career that included four Olympic appearances, highlighted by a bronze medal in 2004, walker Jane Saville has announced her retirement from Australian and international athletics.

Grand Central Terminal in New York provided the perfect platform for the first meeting of Squash’s Olympic Athlete Ambassadors.

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12 women from the LPGA joined the various foursomes of players throughout the day to coach them in a selection of 7 clinics during the day. The lady veterans could choose from full swing, chipping, bunker, pitching and putting shots with the LPGA coaches.

The second-highest ranked female golfer in the world, Yani Tseng of Taiwan, has added an extra incentive for the Singapore golfers playing in this weeks local qualifier for the HSBC Womens Champions.

Regardless of venue, target, competition or fitness level, any swimmer can benefit from periodically assessing and re-evaluating their goals, techniques and training programme.

The winner of the first race of the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix 2009 is Linsy Heister (NED, born 1988) prevailed in the women’s field with a time of 8:55:16:99.

British Swimming Chief Executive David Sparkes has responded to today’s UK Sport announcement on funding that will see the Olympic sport of Water Polo receive £1,450,895 from 2009 until 2013.

In the RS:X Women’s class, the 23-board fleet had more than a dozen countries represented, but it was Marina Alabau (ESP) who took gold, on the strength of a second-place finish today. photo Dan Nerney Rolex

USA Water Ski is pleased to announce that the Ski Club of the Palm Beaches will host the 2009 GOODE Water Ski National Championships, presented by Speedo.

Sporting Equals welcomed the publication of the Audit Commission Report “Tired of Hanging Around” that showed sport and leisure activities can help stop young people drifting into anti-social behaviour.

From the Beijing Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games to the organization and preparation for the 2010 Games in Vancouver, the impact of the Olympics and Paralympics is evident on the 2008 list of Most Influential Women in Sport and Physical Activity.

Adidas announced today that starting February 1 it will host an enter-to-win promotion encouraging women to share their real stories about training struggles and successes.

The International Triathlon Union (ITU) today announced the programme and qualification system for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) following approval from the IOC Executive Board.

The Five Nations Match features one athlete in each event from the United States, Great Britain, Sweden, Germany and a Commonwealth Select team. It is a unique country vs. country format that features athletes from the different nations battling against each other to earn points towards their teams overall match total.

On 3 February, the first Paralympic Winter World Cup will take place in Solleftea, Sweden, bringing together over 200 athletes representing 26 countries from around the world.

England Womens Head Coach Gary Street has today announced his starting line-up for Saturdays RBS 6 Nations opener against Italy at London Welsh RFC, kick-off 130pm.

The four-way relegation battle at the foot of the first division of the women’s Subway indoor national league has one more week and two matches to run, but it became clearer at Bell’s Sports Centre, Perth, on Sunday.

Reigning World Cup overall champion Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) put herself one win away from being the most successful female American ski racer Sunday as she won a super G at the Audi FIS World Cup in Garmisch. The win came just 48 hours before the same event in the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships that begin Tuesday in Val d\\\'Isere, France.

TeamBath netballers will make up half of the England squad to take on Jamaica next month, England Netball has announced.

Italian Manuela Manetta claimed the women’s Tour squash title, respectively, at the Welsh Institute of Sport.

Andrea Lekic is undisputedly among the most talented young handballers in Europe. she also proves week by week in the Champions League or in the Regional League where she is among the top. Main Round (1 & 2) of the Womens Champions League. The matches will take place over the weekends of 7th/8th February and 14th/15th February 2009, in venues across Europe. photo EHF

Serena Williams became the highest earning female athlete of all time this week when she won both her singles and doubles semi final matches in Melbourne. She also finished on a high on Friday when she won with Venus their third Australian Open doubles title defeating Hantuchova and Sugiyama in straight sets.

Melbourne Park, the venue for the Australian Open tennis tournament, is to be redeveloped, ensuring that the Grand Slam event remains there permanently.