Women sport news

Anna Hemmings, five times world champion and Britain’s greatest ever female canoeist this weekend won the women’s K1 and K2 events at the 2007 National Marathon Canoe Championships, held at Wokingham Canoe Club on the River Thames. photo Mark Lloyd

The third and last round of the Trial Women European Championship was held today in Hobøl (Norway). The event was held on a damp ground with mixture of wet and dry rocks.

Contrary to popular belief amongst mountain bike fans there is loads of accommodation available in the Fort William and Lochaber area for the week of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships - powered by Nissan Sports Adventure - 3 - 9 September 2007.

NZ's Nicky Samuels broke through to win the BG Triathlon World Cup in Austria last month ahead of the race favourites, it was a shock to most in the triathlon circles. But one who wasn’t surprised at all was her team mate and former teacher, Samantha Warriner. She was the one who encouraged Samuels to try the sport. photo ITU Media

Five of England’s silver medal winning squad from the 2005 World Youth Netball Championships have been named in the England squad to contest the World Netball Championships in Auckland in November 2007

Maria Toor Pakay, a 16-year-old from Pakistan making her first appearance on the WISPA World Tour outside her home country, caused an impressive upset in the first round of the Women's Alexandria Sporting Club Squash Open in Egypt when she defeated Ireland's experienced No8 seed Laura Mylotte

Spain def Azerbaijan, Germany def Ukraine , England def Italy, on Monday at The Euro Hockey Championships in Manchester UK, other results to follow when matches are complete lots of photos inside by Andrew Beckett

International Women’s Cricket returns to Derbyshire CCC for the second consecutive year as England Women take on New Zealand in the third ODI of the 2007 NatWest Women’s Series on Thursday August 23.

Mollie Fankhauser made her wire-to-wire win look easy this week at the $75,000 Hunters Oak Golf Classic. From start to finish, she was Runaway Mollie -- untouchable and uncatchable.

World N0 1 Lorena Ochoa, cannot put a foot wrong on the Women's Tour this year. She won the CN Canadian Women's Open by 3 strokes by Paula Creamer -16 under par 268 70-64-65-69. This victory comes straight after her major victory last week at the Ricoh British Women's Open.

The Australian is now in the top 6 of the WQS and will compete in the WCT in Brazil. photo ASP

All eligible boats are invited to enter the 2007 TOTAL Lubmarine Asia Pacific China Coast Race Week, based in Hong Kong and organised by Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC).

The Sydney TAB Swifts have won the 2007 Commonwealth Bank Trophy with a hard-fought 45-37 win over the Melbourne First National Phoenix at Sydney's Acer Arena on Sunday afternoon.

With only 100 days to go, New Zealand Selectors today named the 12 members of the Silver Ferns team for the New World Netball World Championships to be held in Auckland in November.

The U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team lost to Netherlands 25-18, 25-23, 11-25, 25-20 on the final day of preliminary action in the FIVB World Grand Prix on Sunday at the Macau Forum in Macau, China.

The third weekend of the FIVB World Grand Prix is finished and the overall statistics promotes the best five and China. Brazil, Italy, Russia, Poland and The Netherlands are qualified for the final week in Ningbo, together with China. photo FIVB

After 13-straight weeks of competition in 11 countries on four continents, Jia Tian and Jie Wang will return home for an 11-week break as the top women’s team on the 2007 SWATCH-FIVB World Tour as the Chinese pair claimed a silver medal here Saturday at the US$400,000 PAF Open. photo FIVB

Justine Henin and Jelena Jankovic square off in the Toronto Final today. Henin def Yan Zi of China in straight sets to advance and Jankovic def Golovin in three sets

In all the excitement about the World Cup next month everyone seems to have overlooked an event which risks ending rugby in another part of the world. Report by John Birch

The England women’s hockey team made a fine start to their EuroHockey Nations Championships campaign with a convincing three-nil win against Pool A rivals Ireland. plus other scores from day 1 photo Andrew Beckett

2nd NatWest ODI England v New Zealand, Stratford-Upon-Avon. Due to the continuous bad weather and heavy overnight rain at Stratford-Upon-Avon CC, the 2nd NatWest Women’s ODI between England and New Zealand has been cancelled.

Rolex Rankings Number 1 Lorena Ochoa posted a bogey freee 64 (-7) in Round 3 to seize a four stroke lead at 4 under par 199 heading into the final round of the CN Canadian Women's Open. Paula Creamer and Laura Diaz are her closets contenders

Mollie Fankhauser extended her lead by five shots in this week’s $75,000 Hunters Oak Golf Classic, carding a second consecutive round of five-under-par 67. She heads into Sunday’s final round with a two-day total of 134 (-10).

Yeovil’s Henrietta Brockway beat Manchester’s Kelly Tidy 4/3 in the all-English final of the British girls’ championship at Southerndown, Wales.

Kent’s Claire Aitken won the ladies’ English open mid-amateur championship at Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, when she beat Jenny Pease of Essex 3/2 in a low-scoring final.

The Aussie Jessi Miley-Dyer steals the show at the Billabong Girls Pro WQS. In her first appearance the waves were really good reaching 5 feet at Tiririca Beach. Jessi surfed the best wave of the contest. photo ASP