Women sport news

Poynton fought back from two goals down to win 3-2 with Katie Maltman scoring twice to set up a famous victory

Cricket Australia and Ford Australia today launched a search for Australia’s best backyard cricketers through the Ford Backyard Series Cricket competition.

Karen Carney says she was delighted to be part of the England team that qualified for a third major tournament in a row, but admits that she won't start thinking about Finland until the squad for the Championship is named. photo FA

SAN ANTONIO (WNBA) – Kate Smith helped fired the United States to a fourth straight Olympic gold medal earlier this summer and now the Detroit Shock sharpshooter looks intent on guiding her club to a second title in the last three years. photo FIBA

The countdown to the world's preeminent surfing series has begun and the acclaimed waves of Oahu's North Shore are coming to life on cue. The 26th annual Vans Triple Crown of Surfing will commence its six-week run on November 12, 2008, through December 20, and will offer the largest prize purse in the Series' history: $815,000.

Larissa llchenko from Russia swam a fantastic race to win the 2008 FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup event held at East Coast Park this morning in a time of 2 hr 15 min 22.00 sec.

From the outset, the objective of the Waterski and Wakeboard World Cup series was to bring the best athletes in the world to spectacular downtown locations for public enjoyment. This year, the Singapore Waterski and Wakeboard Federation (SWWF), will host the 24th Stop of the series. They have organized one of the most exciting and unique venues to date. It is known as the Marina Bay Floating Stadium in downtown Singapore.

The Swedish Linda Rahm won the Tróia Portugal Women's Cup,organized by Sun Sailing team and sponsored by Turismo de Portugal and Troiaresort, which ended today in Tróia. The crew won 13 matches and was defeated only twice in the three Round Robins. photo troiaportugalwomenscup.com

If you had only 24 hours to live, how would you spend them? For hundreds of mountain bikers the chance to spend the whole day ... and night... on world class trails is like a dream come true.

The Commonwealth Youth Games have provided a launching pad for a number of renowned international athletes, and in just over a week’s time the next generation of Australian sporting champions will make their mark at the third edition of the Commonwealth Youth Games, which will be held in Pune, India from October 12 – 18.

Inspired by ParalympicsGB’s performance in Beijing? Think you have what it takes to be an elite athlete? With Britain’s successful Paralympic team now back from the Beijing Games with an impressive haul of 42 gold medals, attention has now turned to London 2012 and the search for the next generation of Paralympic stars.

World N0 1 Australia defeated England by only 3 goals in the first test of a 2 match series held in Newcastle Australis on Saturday evening.

The staging of this week’s Women's Tekamed Moscow Open in Moscow marks the inaugural WISPA World Tour squash event to be held in Russia.

Venus Williams showed who was boss in the QF's of the Stuttgart Open defeating No 3 seed Dinara Safina in straight sets. Victoria Azarenka performed the upset of the day by claiming victory over N0 4 seed Elena Dementieva of Russia in 3 sets.

Mark Lane, the England Women’s head coach has made one change to the victorious summer squad by naming the uncapped wicket-keeper Lauren Griffiths in the15-player squad for the ICC Women’s World Cup to be held in Australia in March 2009.

BENDIGO (Olympics/WNBL) – Australia’s long-time national team point guard Kristi Harrower is lining up a return to Victoria to join hometown club Bendigo instead of playing again for UMMC Ekaterinburg in Russia.

Liz cole at Jack's Billiards in Lynnwood, WA on September 20th and 21st as tour stop #6 was held. With only one stop remaining, things are getting interesting.

Twenty-three women played in the AWBT’s 6th stop at Kolby’s Korner Pocket in Tempe, Arizona on Saturday, Sept. 27th & 28th. This was a $500 added WPBA Qualifier, presented by J. Pechauer Custom Cues. The Qualifier spot was for the WPBA Championships to be held in Florida in November.

On a beautiful Thursday of sunshine and good waves in the three-to-five foot (1.5 metre) range, the Billabong Pro Ladies Costao do Santinho determined the Semifinalists that will decide the title on the 12th stop of the ASP WQS Women’s Tour on Saturday in Florianopolis (SC). photo ASP

Some heavyweights of the international open water scene were on-hand for two Asian stages of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2008, which took place in Hong Kong (HKG) on Sunday, September 28 and Shantou (CHN) on Sunday, September 21, 2008.

The Swedish Linda Rahm and the British Lucy McGregor, current European Champion, confirmed the status of favorites to victory at Tróia Portugal Women's Cup, event organized by Sun Sailing Team and sponsored by Turismo de Portugal and Troiaresort. photo .troiaportugalwomenscup.com

The British Snow Tour accelerates to Glasgow this weekend, Saturday 4th October for the final indoor event of the series, the Trespass Snowboardcross & Skiercross Championships and Slopestyle Jam.

The organizer and hosting resort LAAX is proud to announce the date for the EUROPEAN FREESKI OPEN by SWATCH 2009. For the fourth time in a row the season highlight of European freeski sport will take part from March 17 – 21, 2009 in LAAX, Switzerland. photo Christian Stadler

The skies opened up for some beautiful blue bird conditions as riders pushed through an almost too-soft-to-handle Slopestyle course at the 2008 Swatch TTR 5Star Burton Australian Open Snowboarding Championships.

Heather Fell, Britain’s Beijing 2008 Olympic silver medal winning modern pentathlete, returns to action in the World Cup Final in Portugal today 4th October.

The World Acro Gymnastics competitions is being held this weekend in Glasgow, Scotland. Some of the rounds have taken place already and results are in.