Women sport news

On Tuesday June 26, ahead of Warwickshire Bears’ encounter with Northamptonshire Steelbacks at 12pm at Edgbaston, England will again play in a demonstration Twenty20 match. The day, touted by Warwickshire CCC as ladies day, will include beauty treatments, beauty queens and even make-up presentations for spectators and players alike! photo Don Miles

After a quadruple winning season with Arsenal, Anita Asante knows how important the squad’s continued strength and fitness will be when the England Women’s team travel to the World Cup in China in August.

Just two months before their first game of the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup at the Shanghai Hongkou Football Stadium against Japan, England will be meeting for their last training camp on home soil at Bisham Abbey between 9-13 July.

World N0 1 Lorena Ochoa entered the sudden death playoff against In Kyung Kim at the Wegmans LPGA with a 0-4 playoff record, but used a par on the second playoff hole to take home her twelth career title. Ochoa carded a 69-71-67-72=280 (-8) during regulation

Rachel Jennings and Anna Scott will represent England in the Irish Open Strokeplay Championship at Clandeboye Golf Club, Newtownards, on June 30 and July 1.

Despite spotting France a 16-0 run in the third quarter, the USA Basketball Women’s U21 World Championship Team (3-0) completed its three-game sweep of the French U21 World Championship Team with a 71-57 victory Thursday night in La Garde, France.

Canada's team includes two players who were part of the National Elite Development Academy program in Hamilton this past year, forward Krysten Boogaard and guard Kalisha Keane.

The world’s best tandem surfing teams will return to the sport’s birthplace of Waikiki, August 23-25, to pair up on the waves for the World Title of Tandem Surfing, presented by Tsunami’s Waikiki

The final stop of the 2007 Chevrolet Revolution Tour opened Thursday Kelly Marren (Hillsborough, CA) captured halfpipe victories at Windells. Earning the overall halfpipe title for the five-stop series was U.S. Snowboarding Junior World Championships snowboardcross bronze medalist Brooke Shaw (Stratton Mountain, VT); She had two victories from the Tour this season.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have accepted that the number of bronze medals to be awarded in taekwondo at the Olympic Games will be increased to two starting with next year’s Olympic Games in the Chinese capital of Beijing.

In the women’s field, Canadians Paula Findlay and Alexandra Coates thrilled the home crowds with a gold-silver finish.

In the last race to ever be held in the capital city, Emma Moffatt of Australia has just won the 2007 Edmonton BG Triathlon World Cup in a time of 1 hour 57 minutes and 52 seconds for the first world cup win of her career. photo Delly Carr ITU Media

From 18 to 21 June, two Paralympic Games Knowledge Workshops and an official Project Review were held between the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC).

World No 1 Justine Henin fought all the way in a match that lasted over 2 and a half hours to defeat Amelie Mauresmo in three sets. Both women had a great tournament to start their Wimbledon campaign next week. Defending Champion Amelie Mauresmo won't be giving her crown up without another fight.

After 36 holes at the Wegmans LPGA, 72 players will tee off in the third round. Leading the pack are Mi Hyun Kim, and rookie In Kyung Kim at 7- under par and two strokes in front of Angela Stanford who is holding her own at 5 under par

Allied Pickford Melbourne Kestrels’ defender Amy Steel comes into the Australian 21 & Under line-up for their closed session matches against national senior teams from Jamaica and England next month in Melbourne.

The U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team overcame a slow start and finished strong to defeat Argentina 17-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-16 on the opening day of the Sixth Pan American Cup on June 21 in Colima, Mexico. photo US Volleyball

Defending Henkel Grand Chelem women’s champions Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca won their ninth-straight SWATCH-FIVB World Tour match on the Champs de Mars sand courts behind the Eiffel Tower here Thursday morning,

On a day when Brazilians Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca surpassed the US$1-million mark in international Beach Volleyball earnings.

Preview of the draw for the 2008 Women's European Championship Qualification, which will take place on 6 July 2007 at 16:45 in Bratislava, Slovakia

World No 1 Justine Henin def Marion Bartoli in straight sets to meet up with N0 2 seed Amelie Mauresmo in the Eastbourne Final

Jelena Jankovic was pushed to a third set tie-break but managed to hold off Dinara Safina to reach the Ordina Open final. She faces Anna Chakvetadze for the Tier III title Saturday.

First Round play at the Wegmans LPGA is underway after a weather delay that lasted 2 hours and 7 minutes. Kristie Kerr is leading 6 under par 66

Cheshire’s Sue Dye won the Senior Ladies’ English Strokeplay Championship by five shots at Northumberland Golf Club.

ANTIBES (FIBA U21 World Championship for Women) – It took nearly all four quarters, but in the end the 2007 USA Basketball Women’s U21 World Championship Team (2-0) upped its exhibition record against France (0-2) to 2-0 after pulling away in the final stanza to earn a hard-fought 81-68 win on Tuesday night in Antibes, France. photo FIBA

Cool, Quirky, Coveted Surf Items Worth over $250,000 Set For Hawaii's Vintage Surf Auction "Jaws", Duke and a Decade of Surfboards Go Under the Hammer July 21, 2007