Women sport news

Premiers of New Brunswick, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador join vision to make the 2010 Winter Games “Canada’s Games”

The Burton Global Open Series announces Torah Bright (AUS) as women’s halfpipe champion in the fifth annual TTR FIVE(5)STAR Burton NZ Open at Snow Park NZ today

Both U.S. women also completed their 84-kilometer contest in the top 40 alongside the world’s best junior female road cyclists. Lauren Shirock (Emmaus, Pa./BMW-Bianchi) was the top finisher in 20th place. photo US Cycling

The regatta is of extra significance this year because it is a qualifying event for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. photo BCU

Gyms For All UK Ltd is to have free gyms in every community, to help make Britain a fitter and healthier nation. In order to achieve this, we have created a unique, non-traditional environment where people from all walks of life can enjoy fitness for free. photo Olympic Athlete Tessa Sanderson CBE helps with the Launch

Dame Kelly Holmes Joins Three Generations Eager For British Success.

Great Britian's Tracy Moseley (Kona Les Gets Factory Team) defeated Australian Tracey Hannah (Cairns Cycle Club) and New Zealander Jennifer Makgill (SsangYong-fusion Team) with a time of 2.35.640. Makgill overcame mechanical problems and came in third.

In the 17th year of the National Club Relay Championships at the National Watersports Centre Holme Pierrepoint, Nottingham, and with a record entry of nearly 400 teams, the ladies quartet from Birmingham Running and Triathlon Club took the honours. Report and pictures by John Coxon

American triathletes will get three chances over the next 10 months to earn a spot on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team at the Beijing Olympic Games in August 2008. photo ITU Media

World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) announces an addition to the global Ironman 70.3 Event Series, the Muskoka Ironman 70.3. Trisport Promotions, a company that has been host to more than 250,000 triathletes and 300 triathlons across Ontario for the past 21 years, will manage the event that will take place in Muskoka, Canada. photo Lisa Bentley

With the New World Netball World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand now only three months away, England’s netballers are stepping up their preparations as they challenge for a medal in the competition. photo Kate Fisher

Three out of four is not perfect but certainly is a very good average. That is the record achieved by China in the past four editions of the FIVB Girls’ Youth World Championship after winning tonight the crown of the 2007 edition in Tijuana, Mexico.

The second week end of the FIVB World Grand Prix is won by Brazil, Russia and Poland: they were the leaders of the three pools which were played for the second leg in Tokyo, Khabarovsk and Hong Kong. Brazil is leading the general standings of the competition with a 6-0 record. photo FIBA

After placing ninth in their last trip to Norway earlier this season, Brazilians Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca climbed atop another SWATCH-FIVB World Tour podium by defeating two teams from China here Saturday to net the women’s gold medal at the US$350,000 Otera Open. photo FIVB

Two successive stunning victories over higher-ranked Canadians have taken England's Emma Beddoes into her maiden WISPA World Tour final at the Women's Sun & Surf Jericho Squash Open at the Jericho Tennis Club in Vancouver, Canada.

Top seed Maria Sharapova retired from the LA Semi Final due to a lower left leg strain, Petrova receives a walkover into the final where she faces Ana Ivanovic

Reigning World Cup champions and England's Group A opponents Germany have named their 21 player squad, with Head Coach Silvia Neid being able to call on the experience of seven cap centurians. photo FA

Rookie Taylor Leon extended her first-round lead today and heads into Sunday’s final round of the $80,000 Betty Puskar Golf Classic hoping for a wire-to-wire finish and her second professional title. photo Futurestour.com

ASP World No. 10 Jacqueline Silva (BRA) has defeated teenage European sensation Pauline Ado (FRA) in clean 2-3ft (1m) surf to win the Davidoff Cool Water Wave 5 star WQS at the 2007 Rip Curl Boardmasters. photo Poullenot/ASP Europe

Pegasus airlines, and the town of Alaçati, in Turkey's Izmir Province will welcome the PWA World Tour between August 13th and 18th for a scintillating Slalom racing spectacular. photo PWA

Australia is the new junior women’s water polo world champion, after winning the seventh edition of the competition (from July 23-29, 2007) in Porto (POR).

The USA Women's Junior National Team fell in the Bronze Medal game of the 2007 FINA Junior Women's World Championship. The squad was downed by Hungary 10-8 in overtime with their final overall record in the tourney ending at 4-3.

Race crews had an extra day to prepare for the Rolex Fastnet Race start rescheduled for Monday 13 August. For the first time in race history, RORC race organizers elected to postpone the start by 25 hours due to a severe weather warning from the UK Met Office, which would have put the bulk of the fleet in the middle of the Celtic Sea as a low pressure system approached, with no safe port to run to.

New Zealand’s Samantha Warriner has won the 2007 Tiszaujvaros BG Triathlon World Cup in Hungary today, the fifth win of her great career. photo Spomedis/ITU Media Frank Wechsel

Russia's women can now call them selves the top triathlon country after handily beating eight other nations at the 2007 ITU Team Triathlon World Championships today in Tiszaujvaros, Hungary

Valerie Ghibaudo (FRA, Loft Sails) is leading the 2007 ISA Speed Windsurfing World Tour. photo PWA