Women sport news

AUSTRALIAN surfing's in-form star Laura Enever has racked up a win on the Australasian junior tour by taking her respective division in the Motorola Pro Junior at Merewether in Newcastle. photo ASP

ENEVER RACKS UP WIN AT MOTOROLA PRO JUNIOR

BRITISH SWIMMING today launched a major recruitment drive to ensure it gives itself the best chance of success in the 2012 Olympics.

British Swimming prepares itself for 2012

Jennifer Hudak (Park City, UT) took her skiing to the next level Friday to win her third straight U.S. title in women's skier halfpipe during the Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships. photo Jen Hudak - Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships, skier halfpipe, Park City Mountain Resort. Photo: Tom Kelly/U.S. Ski Team

Hudak Takes Third HP Title

The U.S. Ski Team's Liz Stephen (East Montpelier, VT) won the U.S. Cross Country Distance Championships on Friday evening in Fairbanks. The events were held in the late evening twilight in Fairbanks. photo US Ski Team

Stephens wins CC Distance Championships in Fairbanks

31. March Skiing2294

Roark Wins Dual Moguls Titles

Roark, a 2006 Olympian and World Championships silver medalist, went all out to earn her first national title. Women's podium: (l-r) Kayla Snyderman (2); Michelle Roark (1), KC Oakley (3) - Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships, dual moguls, Deer Valley Resort, Park City, Utah. (U.S. Ski Team)

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Stephen Wins Second Title of Weekend

Liz Stephen (East Montpelier, VT) added another national title to her resume this weekend winning the women's 30K U.S. Cross Country Distance Championships on Sunday in Fairbanks. photo Scott Sine

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SEASONâ€™S FINAL ICENETWORK.COM â€œWORLD FIGURE SKATER RANKINGSâ€ PRESENTED BY KOHLS RELEASED

French ice dancers Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelderâ€™s gold medal at the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships last week in Gothenburg, Sweden, earned them the necessary points to move into the No. 1 spot in the seasonâ€™s final icenetwork.com World Figure Skater Rankings presented by Kohlâ€™s.

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Carillion tipped to build Velodrome for 2012

CARILLION are reportedly close to signing a deal with the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to build the Velodrome for the 2012 Games.

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Test for human growth hormone set to be in place for Beijing

THE World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has at last placed an order for â€œthousandsâ€ of human growth hormone testing kits, signalling an escalation in the fight against a drug widely thought to be one of the most abused in sport, insidethegames can exclusively reveal.

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British Acrobatic and Tumbling Championships.

Spelthorne clearly dominated at the Senior level of the 2008 British Acrobatics and Tumbling Championships held at Fenton Manor, Stoke on Trent, over the weekend 29/30 March. photo Alan Edwards Linda Gore

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Snowsill wins World Cup season opener in Mooloolaba

TambiÃ©n texto en espaÃ±ol. Emma Snowsill derailed Vanessa Fernandes' bid for history again. The Aussie three-time world champion won today's BG Triathlon World Cup season opener, successfully defending her Mooloolaba title. photo Delly Carr www.triathlon.org

31. March Athletics1399

Dibaba takes top honours

Tirunesh Dibaba made an impressive world class comeback as she won the senior title, in a day where all four seasons were demonstrated in the two hours of world class endurance racing.

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Gits scores top-20 finishe for Team USA at World Cross Country Championships

Gits, a freshman at Stanford Universityled the Team USA junior women with a 13th place finish. Despite a fall near 3 km, Gits ran 20:41 for the 6 km course to lead the U.S. squad to a sixth-place finish with 100 points, only one point out of fifth behind Canada. plus athletes quotes from the day

31. March Athletics1370

Australia claim World Cross bronze

Outstanding runs by Benita Johnson, Lisa-Jane Weightman, Anna Thompson and Melissa Rollison have led Australia to the team bronze medal at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland.

30. March Volleyball1896

Team USA Defeats ZheJiang 3-1 on China Exhibition Tour

Destinee Hooker (San Antonio) collected 24 points to lead the U.S. Womenâ€™s National Training Team over ZheJiang, a professional Chinese club team, 19-25, 25-17, 27-25, 25-21 Friday at Hangzhou, China. The two teams added a fifth set, which ZheJiang won 15-11. photo US Volleyball

30. March Tennis1145

Justine cruises into last 16 in Miami

Justine Henin beat everyone into the last 16, crushing Sara Errani in Sunday's first match, 62 61. Svetlana Kuznetsova came back from a set and 5-2 down to advance as well.

30. March Hockey1415

Illness forces England to reshape team defence

Great Britain â€“ who were forced to reshape the heart of their defence due to the illness of captain Kate Walsh and the loss of Crista Cullen who fractured her finger in yesterdayâ€™s game â€“ drew the second of three Tests 1-1 in Dublin this evening. photo Andrew Beckett

30. March Windsurfing1529

Ghibaudo wins Speed Windsurfing French Cup

Valerie Ghibaudo was not to beat in this week, with five out of five first places the reigning world champion is too dominant at the moment.

30. March Skiing1749

Torito Wins Moguls Title

Emiko Torito (Steamboat, CO) laid down a spectacular run to win gold in the moguls competition of the Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships at Deer Valley Resort in Park City Saturday.The Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships will air Sunday, April 6 on Versus at 3 p.m. ET. photo Jen Desmond

30. March Cycling2564

Vos goes into the record books and Pendleton, gets Britainâ€™s gold medal tally up to nine

Marianne Vos (Netherlands) went into the record books today as World Champion for 2008, Vos has now set records for the number of World titles achieved in different cycling disciplines. photo www.mariannevos.nl

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Reed wins world keirin title in Manchester

Jennie Reed (Kirkland, Wash.) gave the United States its first world title in the womenâ€™s keirin on Sunday to close out the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. photo US Cycling

29. March Netball1651

ANZ Championship - Netball, like you have never seen it!

It has finally arrived - the ANZ Championship was today launched in Australia by the Acting Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard at a gala event at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. photo Micheal Bradley

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USA Volleyball announces Selections for 2008 U.S. Women's National A2 Program

USA Volleyball is proud to announce the selection of 22 athletes to the U.S. Womenâ€™s Senior A2 National Team program, according to USAV Managing Director of High Performance Indoor Programs Tom Pingel. photo US Volleyball

29. March Beach Volleyball1651

ONE AMERICAN TEAM AGAINST THREE BRAZILIANS PAIRS FOR ADELAIDE GOLD

Nicole Branagh and Elaine Youngs will have to defeat a womenâ€™s team from Brazilian for a Beach Volleyball medal on Glenelg Beach this week as the American won a pair of elimination matches here Saturday morning to advance to the semi-finals of the US$350,000 Adelaide Australia Open. photo FIVB

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BRAZILIANS POISED FOR ADELAIDE AUSTRALIA OPEN PODIUM SWEEP

With their semi-final win here Saturday afternoon over Americans Nicole Branagh and Elaine Youngs, top-seeded Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca put Beach Volleyball power Brazil in position to sweep the womenâ€™s podium at the US$350,000 Adelaide Australia Open. photo FIVB

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