Women sport news

AACHEN, Germany – Pamela Ware and Carol Ann Ware of St-Hubert, Que., made an impressive debut as a synchro pair on Friday placing fourth in the women’s three-metre synchro event at the world junior diving championships.

The Netherlands overpowered Italy as the two Volleyball titans clashed on Day 2 of the European World Grand Prix qualifier in Omsk, Russia. In other matches Wednesday, Serbia and Germany claimed victories. photo FIVB

AACHEN, Germany – Rachel Kemp of Victoria won Canada’s second medal in two days at the world junior diving championships on Thursday earning the bronze medal in the women’s platform event in the 14-15 age group. photo diving.ca

Australia’s most outstanding netballer in 2008 will be honoured as the inaugural recipient of the Liz Ellis Diamond in another landmark announcement for the sport. photo Micheal Bradley

The Co-operative attracted over 150 golf enthusiasts to tee off on the famous Nicklaus and Cheshire golf course’s at Carden Park in Cheshire this week, raising over £ 20,000 for Refuge.

The Australian Netball Diamonds have been relentless under pressure tonight, defeating the New Zealand Silver Ferns 53-51 in Christchurch. photo Micheal Bradley.

Malaysia’s Nicol David has been seeded to win her third World Open title at The Hi-Tec World Squash Championships – Manchester 2008 which will run from 11-19 October at the National Squash Centre in the English city of Manchester.

The 2008 Women’s European Championship will take place in FYR Macedonia from 2 to 14 December 2008. The preliminary round will be played in the cities of Skopje (groups A and D) and Ohrid (groups B and C), with the main round in Skopje (groups C and D) and Ohrid (groups A and B) and the final weekend in Skopje.

AACHEN, Germany – Olympic team member Jennifer Abel of Laval, Que., nailed her final dive to win the silver medal on women’s three-metre springboard on Wednesday at the 40-country world junior diving championships. photo diving.ca

When a season ending knee injury caught Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) off guard mid way through the 2008 winter, the 12-time women's jumping champion could have taken her plight as an opportunity to rest.

KELLY SOTHERTON finished second at the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge in Talence, France at the weekend, beating Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska (Ukraine) into third place, in a competition won by USA’s Hyleas Fountain. Fountain scored 6479, with Sotherton just 40 points adrift and Dobrynksa another 10 points back. photo Andrew Beckett

Terezinha Guilhermina from Brazil won the final of the 200m T11 yesterday to end the final day of the best paralympic games ever in a time of 25.14

Hailed as the best Paralympic Games in History, Swiss athlete Edith Hunkeler won the last event the T54 Marathon. American McGrory claimed the silver. The Closing ceremony starts at 1pm BST, live from the bbc.

London is set to take over as the Paralympic host city, as Beijing bids farewell to the Games in a final closing ceremony.

The Netherlands downed Serbia in the big clash of the first day at the World Grand Prix 2009 European Qualification Tournament in Omsk, Russia. In other matches, Italy blanked Germany and hosts Russia overpowered outsiders France, with all three matches finishing in straight-set victories. photo FIVB

The first round and qualification matches of the 2008/2009 EHF Champions League and European Cup season took place over the past weekend

On 13/14 September, the 2008 EHF Women’s Champions Trophy took place in Chekhov, in the Moscow region of Russia. The hosts and current EHF Champions League titleholders, Zvenigorod Zvezda, took the title after a thrilling and extremely close match against arch rivals, Hypo Niederöstereich.

The WTA tour starts in Tokyo this week with 28 of the top names in tennis.The top name to go out in the first round were Amelie Mauresmo who was was defeated by Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia in three sets.

American Angela Stanford overcame 132 LPGA players at the famed Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, to take her second career victory at the Bell Micro LPGA Classic. photo Getty Images

England’s Laura Davies successfully defended her Austrian title at Golf Club Fohrenwald in Wiener Neustadt on Sunday.

After a great British Dryslope Championship series across the UK, the British Snow Tour looks forward to heading indoors, kicking off its first indoor event, the Animal British Slopestyle Championships at Castleford SNO!zone on Saturday 20th September.

Students at Telford College of Arts and Technology are excited about the prospect of meeting Anna Jackson, a Paralympics athlete on Wednesday September 17 2008. Anna will be attending the College to inspire young people to think about teaching sport to disabled students.

UK Athletics today announce athletes selected to represent Great Britain at the World Half Marathon Championships to be held in Rio, Brazil on 12 October 2008.

European Athletics is pleased to announce that the Portuguese city of Leiria has been chosen to host the first ever SPAR European Team Championships in 2009.

Belarus athlete Tamara Sivakova won the gold medal today in Beijing with a personal best throw of 41m 29.

Home favourite Fang Wang stormed away to win the gold medal in the 100m T36 and break the world record in a time of 13. 82.