Women sport news

Liz Halliday battled difficult conditions at the weekend to secure an 11th place finish in a class of 40 with her horse Oscar at the Aston-le-Walls Horse Trials in Northamptonshire. Photo James Payne

This weekend (19/20 May) the third round of the Scottish Cross Country Mountain Bike Series will be staged on the Witch's Trail course in Forestry Commission Scotland's Leanachan Forest, Fort William.

Elsbeth Van Rooij-Vink wins The Benelux Cup, Ronse in Belgium

INDIANAPOLIS -Allyson Felix, Stacy Dragila, Tyson and Ginnie Powell are just a few of the U.S. stars expected to compete Sunday at the adidas Track Classic in Carson, Calif.

A superb second half defensive display from Australia's midcourt, inspired by WD Selina Gilsenan, effectively crushed England's hope of a famous victory in the Tri-Nations Netball international at Earl's Court this evening, leaving the world number 2 side to run out 47-40 winners.

The much anticipated match between World N0 2 Australia and England will begin today at 7.45 pm at Earls Court in London. England defeated World N0 1 New Zealand last Sunday by 5 goals, Australia also def New Zealand on Tuesday by 3 goals, this match will be the one to watch. England have upped their game-photos show Australia and New Zealand's match on Tuesday in Birmingham

New Zealand's Silver Ferns won their final tour match 66-42 against England A in front of a capacity crowd at Earl's Court this evening.

USA Volleyball has announced the 24-player roster for the 2007 U.S. Women's Junior National Training Team, which will train May 18-20 in Austin, Texas.

Hong Kong's fifth seed Annie Au produced the only upset in the women's event when she beat Malaysia's Lim Yoke Wah, the fourth seed, 9-5, 9-2, 9-1 in 43 minutes.

Samantha Stosur caused the first major upset at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia on Wednesday, when she won a three-set thriller over top seed Amelie Mauresmo

Serena Williams defeated Shahar Peer to continue good form in Berlin, while N0 7 seed was ousted by the N0 9 seed Daniela Hantuchova. Stosur failed to continue her good run falling to Patty Schnyder 6-4 6-4

Jill Craybas was knocked out of the Grand Prix de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem by Aleksandra Wozniak on Wednesday. Caroline Wozniacki and Alize Cornet also made the quarterfinals

England signed off for the season in style with a second successive 4-0 victory, this time over Iceland, in front of almost eight thousand fans at Roots Hall.

Sarah Lee fired a six under par round of 66 in the first round of the Sybase Classic presented by ShopRite to take a two stroke lead from a group of five players, that includes defending champion Lorena Ochoa

CANBERRA (U21 Women national team) - Basketball Australia is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent the 2007 Australian Sapphires Under 21 women’s basketball team.

A SNOOKER team containing four women has defied the odds and won promotion to the Winchester City and District Premier League. Captain Jim Everett’s gamble of signing on the quartet has paid off as his Chandler’s Ford D side finished second in Division one with 13 wins out of 18. photo Kevin Legg

Durban – the second Roxy Surf Jam presented by Virgin Mobile In Association With Resolution Health is set to take place at the Wedge in Durban on the weekend 26-27 May 2007. photo Alice Mcgregor busting out in training for next weekend’s Roxy Surf Jam in Durban. © Scholts

ARAFURA GAMES CAMPAIGN COMMENCES STRONGLY, COUNTDOWN TO COURTS NATIONAL SCHOOL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS BEGINS

U.S. Figure Skating announced today the launching of a new, free video features page on icenetwork.com that includes both on- and off-ice content from throughout the 2006-2007 season

Abigail Coulson and Lucy Wainwright hope to impress at the World Cup 2 in Hungary this weekend. photo BCU

Tracy's Report-Here we go again…..World Cup time ! Suddenly the winter seems to have been so short as it doesn’t feel very long since I was celebrating winning the World Cup Overall in Schladming last September.

Kathi Krause won the Virginia State Downhill Championships with a time of 4.33.52, in second place was Elgert with Brennan in 3rd

Gladys Willems (BEL) shot magnificently last Sunday setting the Compound Women world record for a FITA Round at an astonishing 1411 points! The competition took place in Goirle (NED). She also set the world record for the distance of 60 meters at 356 points.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - USA Track & Field announced Tuesday the Team USA marathon squad for the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, to be held in Osaka, Japan August 24 - September 2.

Allyson Felix has been named USA Track & Field's Athlete of the Week after winning an impressive double, the women's 100 meters and 400m, Friday at the Qatar IAAF World Super Tour 2007 in Doha, Qatar.

Sanya Richards, American women's record holder in the 400 meters outdoors, 2006 IAAF World Athlete of the Year and Jesse Owens Award winner, will run the 400 meters at the Road to Eugene 08 Track & Field Meet at historic Hayward Field on Sunday, May 27.