Women sport news

The ensuing awards were dominated by Diana Gee who has had a magnificent golfing 2007. She features in six of the following results, taking the two available cups for these competitions,a stunning achievement.

The Club President, Anne Davies, held the ladies start of the season competition this week on the first non-rainy day for a long time,thank goodness.

ESB Lille clinched their progression to the eighth-finals of the EuroLeague Women with a heart-stopping 60-59 win at home over Fenerbahce only on Wednesday evening. photo FIbaeurope

ASP World Junior Champion Sally Fitzgibbons (Gerroa, NSW, AUS) proclaimed her arrival as Australia’s next biggest talent, taking out the 6-Star ASP World Qualifying Series Roxy Surf Festival, at Phillip Island, on Australia Day. photo ASP

The 5km and 10km 2007 World Champion, Larissa Ilchenko, imposed her finish in front of the American Kirsten Groome and the famous German duet, Angela Maurer (3rd) and Britta Kamrau Corestein (4th). For her comeback, the Dutch Edith van Dijk placed only 11th. Twelve swimmers crossed the line in the same minute. photo USA Swimming

The backing for the greatest tour on earth’s growing stronger day-by-day, with Maui Fin Co. becoming the latest Associate Member of the PWA. photo PWA Carter

Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) had the fourth-fastest second run Saturday to produce her best World Cup giant slalom result, finishing sixth. Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA) was 11th while Italy's Denise Karbon, skiing with a broken hand, had the fastest second run and won in 2:22.26.

Canmore…Alberta and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) have signed an accord that lays out the province of Alberta’s role leading up to and during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver-Whistler. The accord outlines Alberta’s actions in three areas –– sport, tourism and culture.

U.S. Snowboarding's Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) experienced the sweet taste of a long-awaited victory as she grabbed her fourth Winter X Games snowboardcross gold Saturday.

Britain’s number one snowboarder, Zoe Gillings, finished an impressive sixth in the snowboard cross at the prestigious Winter X-Games in Aspen, Colorado on Saturday night.

The cripplers were bigger and the 900s were more epic than usual Friday night as Olympic medalist and hometown superstar Gretchen Bleiler (Aspen, CO) left it all out in the superpipe to take home the coveted X Games gold medal.

Isabelle Delobel/Olivier Schoenfelder of France defended their lead after the Compulsory Dance ahead of Russia’s Oksana Domnina/Maxim Shabalin and Jana Khokhlova/Sergei Novitski.

The Ladies’ event kicked off with the Short Program. All 40 Ladies competed in the Short Program, and the top 24 advanced to the final Free Skating. Carolina Kostner of Italy captured the lead ahead of Finland’s Kiira Korpi and Laura Lepistö.

In what was a Ladies Free Skating full of suspense, Carolina Kostner of Italy captured her second consecutive European title. Switzerland’s Sarah Meier surged from fourth to second to earn her second silver and newcomer Laura Lepistö (FIN) captured the bronze medal.

There were two 500m races. The first one on Friday, where German World Champion Jenny Wolf skated the fastest time ever skated in Europe, 37.52. The second one on Saturday, where Jenny Wolf equaled that first time and again clocked 37.52. Both times, Korean Sang-Hwa Lee finished in second place. photo ISU

SHIRLEY ROBERTSON, a double Olympic gold medallist and an ambassador for the London Games, has has criticised the Scottish Government over a decision to scrap an elite sporting body she claims jeopardises Scottish athletes chances of winning gold medals in 2012. photo onEdition

It has been a difficult Christmas and New Year, due to my husbands’ mother being diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. I had not really ridden my bike more than 200miles in total since my last competition in Hawaii November! So I jumped at the chance to do a 200km" brevet" "as they called it.

The International Softball Federation, the governing body for worldwide softball now has programming available on the newly formed Women's Sports Television Network.

The International Triathlon Union today announced that Geel, Belgium will host the 2008 ITU Long Distance Duathlon World Championships on August 10th. También texto en español. photo ITU

The 2008 European Athletics Indoor rankings are now available on www.european-athletics.org .

Top seed Samantha Teran survived a two-hour marathon battle with second seed Latasha Khan in the final of the Women's Liberty Bell Open to lift the WISPA World Tour squash title at Berwyn Squash & Fitness Club in Philadelphia, USA, for the second time in three years. photo WISPA

After drawing Lindsay Davenport in the second round, it didn't seem so likely. But Maria Sharapova's form overcame that and many other tests and she walked away with her third major title.

Leeds United Ladies travel south to Chelsea this Sunday, with memories of reaching the final two years ago still fresh. photo FA

The Swatch TTR 6-STAR Burton European Open in Laax, Switzerland ended last weekend with amazing result of Billabong top riders in the Women’s fields. Photo credits: Vanessa Andrieux

The last day of the Swatch TTR THREE(3)STAR Protest World Rookie Fest 08 in Livigno, the first of three World Snowboard Federation (WSF) World Rookie Fests this season, saw an amazing level of riding from every rider in the finals. photo TTR World Snowboarding Tour

Brand Republic report that the Japanese company is launching its first global sponsorship campaign during the 2008 Olympics spanning, TV ads, idents and break bumpers.