Women sport news

Vlasic, who was also the European Athlete of the Month in July, became the first Croatian in history to be crowned World High Jump Champion when she cleared 2.05m to win the title in Osaka on September 2. photo Picture alliance

The U.S. beach volleyball team of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh have been grabbing postseason beach volleyball honors both domestically and internationally.

Players from seven nations - two from England and one from each of Netherlands, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark and Ireland - claimed places in the main draw of the Madrid Women's World Open Squash Championship after surviving testing qualifying finals today (Monday) at Club Palestra in the Spanish capital.

EHF E-NEWS the link with the referee and delegate nominations for the Women's EHF Champions LeagueGroup Matches (2) to be played from 31.10 - 04.10.2007.

Serbian fourth to qualify for prestigious crown jewel season-ending $3 million event

American becomes the fifth to qualify for prestigious season-ending $3-million event

Bammer, Srebotnik, Kirilenko, Krajicek and Radwanska all bowed out in the first round of the Generali Ladies Linz Open in Austria. Julia Vakulendo def Maria Kirilenko 63 63 to advance to the second round.

Former Australian captain Mark Taylor and current Australian players Phil Jaques and Lisa Sthalekar today lent their support to the expansion of Australian cricket’s major education and community project, the CricKids Playing in Harmony school resource. photo Getty Images

Australian cricket’s quest to stay number one in the world has been given a boost with a Federal Government grant of $17.5 million for a major redevelopment of the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane.

EKATERINBURG (FIBA Women's World League) - The team may be called CSKA Moscow instead of CSKS Samara, but one big thing hasn't change.

EKATERINBURG (FIBA Women's World League) - The USA Basketball Select Team quickly established themselves as one of the favourites to capture the Women's World League with a 93-49 mauling of Canberra Capitals. photo FIBA

Lijie Miao had 25 points as the WCBA All Stars China held on for an 82-76 win over Basketball Club Habana on Monday in Women's World League preliminary round action. photo FIBA

Agnieszka Bibrzycka scored 19 points as UMMC Ekaterinburg secured a narrow 71-67 win over Mizo Pecs in their Women's World League preliminary round opening game on Monday.

A pioneering Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) initiative aiming to reduce the number of children unable to swim is celebrating a successful first year in existence.

World Championship silver medallist Cassie Patten will descend on Sheffield this weekend for the ASA National Masters and Senior Age Group Championships (25m).

Olympians Brenda Villa, Heather Petri, and Natalie Golda are just three of the athletes that will headline the 2007 Speedo Top 40 set for November 2-4 at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, California. photo Kirby Lee

The comeback of three-time Olympian Caroline Lalive (Steamboat Springs, CO) was cut short this week when she suffered a season-ending knee injury while training in Pitztal, Austria.

SOELDEN, Austria (Oct. 21) - in a World Cup parallel giant slalom Kreiner of Austria finished first on the Rettenbach Glacier.

U.S. Figure Skating, USA Hockey and US Speedskating are joining forces to promote National Skating Month, taking place in January 2008. photo Paul Harvath US Figure Skating

Paralympian and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Cathy Mitton led the British charge, winning individual bronze in the women’s class 2 event.

Great Britain Taekwondo has announced the squad that will fly out to the Azerbaijan capital of Baku to compete in the Junior European Championships, which take place from the 26th-28th October.

The results from the first weekend of Round 1 of the EKA Cup are now in. Although some teams came close, there were no overall surprises in the final pool results, with all the National League Premier and Division 1 teams, and Reserve League champions Mitcham 2, all progressing.

Bowdon Hightown enjoyed a French fancy when Lindsay French rounded off the scoring in their 4-1 win at home to second placed Slough, establishing a points lead for the first time this season. Slough’s tight defence had previously only conceded three goals in four games, but were undone by two goals in either half from the Cheshire side Jo Ellis, Julie Hope, and Lis Chaffey scoring before French. photo Andrew Beckett

The updated version of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Accreditation and Sport Entries at the Paralympic Games - Users' Guide has been published today. This version of the Guide was produced and updated for the context of accreditation to be used during the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. It will be updated following every edition of the Paralympic Games.

A brilliant 44-34 win over Canada on Friday put the Northern Ireland netball team into the finals of the 5 Nations Cup in Singapore. Posting their first win in the tournament they were unlucky to lose against Sri Lanka and Singppore earlier in the week and were beaten by Trinidad & Tobago.

Ireland's Laura Mylotte missed out on a glorious chance to win her maiden WISPA World Tour squash title on home soil when she lost in four games to Dutch opponent Orla Noom in the final of the Bymac Leinster Open at the Fitzwilliam Club in Dublin.