Women sport news

Conference South side Bishops Stortford FC will host an international friendly between England Women’s U17s and Denmark on Friday 21 September. Kick-off is at 7.30pm. photo FA

Following the completion of Stop No. 3 of 7 on the ASP Women’s World Tour in Brazil this week, the World’s Top 17 Women now head to Spain for the Rip Curl Girls Festival which will get underway in Santander, from Sept. 4-9, 2007.

Emilie Heymans and Marie-Eve Marleau of Canada won the silver medal in the 10 metre synchro in Sheffield. Chen and Wang of China won Gold, Briony Cole and Melissa Wu of China can home in third

Defending World Cup snowboardcross champion Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) switched to the halfpipe Saturday and finished second in the season opener with U.S. Snowboarding teammate Clair Bidez (Minturn, CO) in third place. photo (FIS/Oliver Kraus) Smugmug.com

Blanka Vlasic and Catherine Ndereba both win Gold on Day 9 in Osaka. Vlasic cleared 2.05m on her third attempt. She was already in the lead, but this tied up the victory. Catherine Ndereba retrieved back her title she lost two years ago to Britain's Paula Radcliff. photos PA Picture Alliance

The top spot on the women’s podium at the US$400,000 St. Petersburg Open had the same look as the first two years of the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour event on the Neva River with Brazilians Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca capturing their third-straight gold medal at the Peter-And-Paul Fortress.

Venus Williams put on a dazzling display of power tennis under the lights Friday, cruising past Alona Bondarenko, 61 62. Justine Henin was among eight women who reached the second week.

Sherri Steinhauer extended her lead to two strokes after carding a six under par 67 on the second round of the State Farm Classic. Steinhauer sits on top of the leader board with 11 under par while Christina Kim who also carded a six under par 67 sits in second place at 9 under par. photo Seoulsisters.com

Émilie Heymans of Greenfield Park, Que., the bronze on women’s 10-metre on Saturday at the inaugural $300,000 (U.S.) World Series of diving. photo diving.ca

Portuguese superstar Vanessa Fernandes is the new triathlon world champion, winning today with a time of 1 hour 53 minutes and 27 seconds. Three-time world champion Emma Snowsill came from behind to win silver while American Laura Bennett took the bronze, her fourth career medal at the world championships. photos Silke Insel and Frank Wechsel ITU Media

Allyson Felix successfully defended her title in the 200m, with a peerless display of sprinting, passing 100m winner, Veronica Campbell of Jamaica entering the straight, and going away to win in 21.81, the fastest performance in nearly a decade.

Like US baton changes, there are some other things which seem to become immutable over time. One of them is that an Ethiopian will win the women’s 5000m. Tirunesh Dibaba pulled out of the shorter race after she won the 10,000m a week ago, but all her presence would have done is produce, as it has done so many time in the past, a closer finish with her colleague and sparring partner, Meseret Defar

TeamBath have announced an exciting new netball coaching partnership that it is hoped will help them secure an historic hat-trick of Superleague titles.

Annelize Naude clinched a straight games victory over New Zealand's Louise Crome in the women's qualifying finals of the Forexx Dutch Open Squash Championships to boost local interest in the WISPA Gold squash event at Frans Otten Stadion in the Netherlands capital city Amsterdam.

with a round-up of European handball and the news of what is going on in Septmber.

The following competitions will be played, withthe first leg on 1/2 september and 2nd leg on 8/9 September 2007.

Please see the draws for the Preliminary Round and Last 32 Round of the women’s 2007-2008 District Cup competition.

This event will bring together the champions from the LPGA and from the leading Tours around the world and will showcase the global talent of women’s professional golf and the global commitment of HSBC to women’s golf.

Three Canadians in Top 4 for Canadian Ski Racers in Chili training races

The car came to a stop at Malibu Creek State Park, it was 5.20am and I find myself with 165 runners picking up my race bib No.80

Andrea Tiberi and Yader Zoli won’t compete the Italian Marathon Championship, because in the same period they will take part to the Cross Country World Championship scheduled from 3 to 9 September in Scotland.

Tracey Neville, one of the most familiar names in netball in recent years, has announced that she plans to return to competitive netball after a long term injury, by trialling for the Brunel Hurricanes 2007-8 Netball Superleague squad.

It was a good day here Thursday for American women at the US$400,000 St. Petersburg Open as the Beach Volleyball pairs from the United States posted upset wins over teams from Brazil to advance to Saturday’s semi-finals in the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour event.

Serena Williams fended off a spirited challenge from Maria Elena Camerin at night, joining Venus, who won earlier on, in the third round. The top doubles teams made winning debuts. World N0 1 Justine Henin also won through to the third round.

Svetland Kuznetsova survived a three set match against Camille Pin of France before advancing into the third round. Hingis, Petrova and Vaidisova also continue in good form

Beth Morgan’s 77 for England women put them on course for a dramatic three-wicket win with one ball remaining in the sixth match of the NatWest Series with New Zealand at Shenley.