Women sport news

Since she retired as a Federal public services manager in Vancouver and had the time to work on her golf game, Alison Murdoch has blossomed into a highly-successful senior amateur golfer and not just in her native Canada, where she has won the Canadian senior women's title five times.

WOMEN’S snooker star Reanne Evans admitted she was “drained” after retaining the Wytech Masters trophy in a dramatic late-night battle with Katie Henrick. photo Mark Jones

Olympic medallist Cassie Patten swam to victory in the UK's largest open water event - the inaugural Great North Swim.

The RYA’s top young windsurfing talent lived up to their billing going into this weekend’s inaugural RYA/UKWA National Windsurfing Championships picking up the crop of top titles at Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA).

Zoe Gillings, Britain’s No.1 female snowboarder, started her season in superb form, finishing 4th in the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup in Chapelco Argentina.

British athletes were in the thick of the action in day one of the lucrative IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart today in what is the traditional annual climax to the summer track and field season.

Olympic 400m bronze medalist Sanya Richards won over a strong field in the women's 200, taking the victory easily in 22.50 over Olympic Trials third-place finisher Marshevet Hooker in second (22.69) and Olympic silver medalist Kerron Stewart of Jamaica third in 22.72. Carmelita Jeter was fifth (22.98) and Lauryn Williams sixth (22.30).

Sanya Richards won her third straight women's 400m title Sunday at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany, becoming the first athlete ever to win a 200-400 double at the meet and posting one of three American titles on the day.

Team GB's Swimming star 13 year old Ellie Simmonds squashed the world record in the 400m freestyle S6 category in a time of 5.41.34s.

Ganna Ielisavetska from the Ukraine broke the world record in the 50m Backstroke S2 today in Beijing 1.13.64.

Gizerm Girismen of Turkey wins the gold medal of the Women's Individual Recurve - W1/W2 in Archery at the Olympic Green Archery Field during day seven of the 2008 Paralympic Games. photo FITA

The U.S. Sitting Women’s Volleyball Team won the silver medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games on Sunday after falling to defending champion China in the final match, 25-14, 25-19, 25-15, before 5,500 spectators at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium in Beijing. photo Hanger Prosthesics and Orthotics.

Home favourite Lisha Huang from china broke the world record in the T53 200m final today in the Birds Nest.

Singpore favourite Yip Pin Xiu swam away from the rest of the pack to win the 50m Backstroke S3 in a time of 58.7.

World No.1 and two-time Paralympic Games Women's Singles champion, Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands defeated fellow dutch women Korie Homan to win her third straight paralympic title. Homan and Walraven of the Netherlands won the Wheelchair Tennis Doubles Gold defeating Griffioen and Vergeer in the final

Beijing, China - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) today announced two further anti-doping rule violations, which occurred at the occasion of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.

Mexican swimmer Nely Miranda stormed to victory on the way to breaking the 50m Freestyle S4 catergory race today in Beijing.

Kelley Becherer of Canada won the 50 Freestyle S13 Catergory in the Water Cube today.

The Greek beach volleyball pair of Vassiliki Arvaniti and Vassiliki Karadassiou became the first team to win a Nestea European Championship Tour English Masters title when they beat Finnish twins Erika and Emilia Nystrom in Blackpool this afternoon. photo Andrew Beckett.

Switzerland's Patty Schnyder beat Austrian teenager Tamira Paszek in the final of the Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic on Sunday for her 11th career Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title.

Canada's Chantal Petitclerc ran in two races and grabbed two golds tonight, bringing her personal medal tally to four golds.

Olympic class shone through on the first day of the main draw of the Nestea European Championship Tour English Masters at St Chad’s Head, Blackpool today (Friday). photo FIBA

Daniela Hantuchova, Patty Schnyder and Nadia Petrova all won their quarterfinals on Friday. No.3-seeded Flavia Pennetta is the only Top 4 seed missing from the semis after falling to Tamira Paszek.

Cricket fans will be served a double dose of trans-Tasman rivalry this summer with the announcement of a men’s and women’s Twenty20™ double-header at the SCG next year. photo Getty Images

Almost 200 young sports volunteers from across the country recently came together to participate in the Young Leaders Camp held at Bradfield College near Reading.

More than 150 windsurfers from all over Britain descend on Weymouth and Portland this weekend (13-14 September) for the inaugural RYA/UKWA National Windsurfing Championships.