Women sport news

Australia’s Pip Taylor’s second place behind New York’s Rebeccah Wassner in the recent RYKA Iron Girl Columbia Triathlon ( Maryland USA) is her sixth podium finish out of eight starts so far this year along with a 4th and 5th place. Report and photo John Coxon

Six-time title winners Brazil, Italy and the Netherlands snatched opening wins at the 2007 FIVB World Grand Prix final round here on Wednesday.

Organizers of the MARKETING WOMEN'S SPORTS CONFERENCE have announced that top sports columnist and author, Christine Brennan, will deliver the keynote address. photo www.womenssportscares.com

Rain washed out all but two matches on Tuesday. Among the matches pushed to Wednesday was Cara Black and Liezel Huber taking on Lisa Raymond and a returned Lindsay Davenport.

Rain washed out play at Forest Hills on Tuesday, but all 16 entrants will take the court as the first round takes place Wednesday. No.3 seed Gisela Dulko is among those in action

Camp Hill players' Antoinette Morgan and Jo Kilby will for a second time in as many months clear their diaries as they prepare for this weekend's Super 4 trials at RAF Halton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. A lovett/rugbymatters.net

The Women’s event was always going to be billed as a mouth-watering match between Karin Jaggi (F2 / North) and the resurgent Valerie Ghibaudo (Tabou). photo PWA Carter

In untypical Qingdao conditions of 15-17 knots out in Fushan Bay, Skandia Team GBR’s Female gold rush came via Bryony Shaw in the women’s RS:X windsurfing event. photo Richard Langdon /Skandia Team GBR

In the USA Cycling Elite Criterium Championships, Tina Pic (Dahlonega, Ga./Colavita-Sutter Home-Cooking Light) sprinted to her fifth career title in the women’s race. photo US Cycling

USA Cycling confirmed today revisions and finalized venues to the previously announced 2007-08 UCI BMX Continental Calendar. The UCI has awarded eight of the 10 North American-based events to the United States.

USA Cycling announced today the Female athletes that will represent the United States at the upcoming Mountain Bike Olympic Test Event in Beijing on Saturday, Sept. 22. photo US Cycling

World Triathlon Corporation, owner of the Ironman brand, announces that T3 Athletic Recovery Products will be the official sleep partner of the inaugural Ford Ironman Louisville, Ford Ironman World Championship and the Ford Ironman World Championship 70.3.

The spectacular 2007 FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round presented by Arawana will kick off on Wednesday in the Beilun Sports and Arts Center of Ningbo, with five best teams from the preliminaries and the host China to vie for the trophy.

It was a fantastic Olympic Test Event the 2007 FIVB Women's Beach Volleyball Challenger in Beijing, finished on Sunday with the victory of fourth seeds Angela Vieira and Danielle da Conceicao Cunha Vivian.

With Denmark’s victory the 2007 Women's 19 European Championship in Izmir, Turkey (10-19 August 2007) came to an end yesterday. Danish right wing Louise Knak Lyksborg scored 8 goals leading Denmark to a 29:19 (12:10) win over Spain in front of 1200 spectators.

World N0 1 Justine Henin def Jelena Jankovic in the Rogers Cup Final in Toronto. A superb match by both players which resulted in two very close sets, Henin came out the winner 76-75

Azerbaijan def ukraine, Italy def Ireland, Germany def Spain and The Netherland def England at The fourth day of The Euro Hockey Championships in Manchester. photo Andrew Beckett

Players from 16 countries will be competing at Conwy Golf Club from 22-24 August in the hope of winning the Nicholls Trophy, awarded to the winner of the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship.

NEW YORK (WNBA) - The New York Liberty clinched the fourth and final play-off spot in the Eastern Conference by beating the Chicago Sky 58-52 on Sunday. photo FIBA

PUEBLA (FIBA Americas Championship) - Uruguay began their tour to Mexico with mixed fortunes ahead of next month's FIBA Americas Championship in Las Vegas.

BANGKOK (World University Games Women) - Australia's women captured gold at the World University Games on Friday with an 85-65 thumping of Russia.

MADRID (FIBA Americas Championship for Women) – Team Chile, scheduled to be the host team in the FIBA Americas Championship 2007, in the city of Valdivia, Chile, defeated Team Spain, 62-53, in the first game of a series of exhibition games between the two teams.

Roseline Filion (Laval, Que.) of Collège André-Grasset finished 4th with 325.75 points in today’s 10m platform final. Filion’s fourth place finish was the best diving performance for Canada during the six day competition. photo diving.ca

Britain's Caitlin McClatchey narrowly missed out on her own British Record when she took the bronze medal in the Women's 400m Freestyle on day one of the Japan International Meet in Chiba.

In Tallinn, Estonia, Allison Shreeve has defended her world championship title for the third consecutive year. The 2005 and 2006 world champion put in her best performance yet, winning every race (11 in total) held during the week of 13th to 18th August, in very trying and varied conditions ranging from 10 to 27 knots.

The majority of sailors at the 2007 Olympic Test Event in Qingdao (CHN) saw some action late in the day on Monday (20 August), with British sailors still firmly in the hunt in spite of the continued light wind conditions. photo onEdition