Women sport news

Xiaoting Pan, who has been so dominate on this years WPBA Tour, has claimed the World Champion Title.

British Diving is redefining its structure as it looks to provide a clear pathway for athletes to fulfill their Olympic potential in Beijing 2008, London 2012 and beyond.

Dual-sportswoman Liz Halliday begins her European season this weekend as the prestigious Le Mans Series begins its 2007 season at the famous Monza circuit in Italy.

Eight years after opening its men’s European residence center in Izegem, Belgium, USA Cycling announced today the opening of a similar facility for its Women’s National Team and development programs in Lucca, Italy.

Lucy Wainwright and Abi Coulson were the hot favourites over the 500m and 200m distance and won both events.

A dozen TeamBath netballers were today (Tuesday) named in England squads to play matches against the top two teams in the world – New Zealand and Australia – next month/photo Team Bath's Sara Bayman

Sasha Corbin (19) and Sara Bayman (23) are the surprise names included in England Netball’s 12 player squad to face Australia and New Zealand in a tri-series to be held in England during May. Photo England's Sasha Corbin-credit Mark Pritchard

Just six days after winning a major Tour title in Kuwait, Malaysia's Nicol David established a remarkable double in Doha by claiming the women's trophie, respectively, in the Qatar Classic at the Khalifa Squash Complex in Doha photo Alexwan.net

The country's famed jogo bonito (beautiful game), once the sole preserve of Brazilian men, now has a new exponent: and it is none other than their female counterparts.

VITERBO (Training camp) - Utilizing a balanced scoring attack and receiving a pair of double-doubles from Tamika Catchings (Indiana Fever) and Taj McWilliams-Franklin (Los Angeles Sparks), the 2007-08 USA Basketball Women’s Senior National Team (3-0) dominated professional club team Virtus Viterbo

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA - USA Water Polo has hired Keith Walker as the new Director of Marketing and Communication. Keith officially began his employment on April 9, working out of the National Training Center in Orange County, CA.

are the current World Champions and British Champions.... On May 19th - the UK's top female skydivers will attempt to break a British Record for the most number of British females on a single formation

Liz Halliday’s European season began with a strong performance at the 2007 Le Mans Series opener at Monza-

The world's top two women squash players will meet in their fourth successive WISPA World Tour final when Nicol David and Natalie Grinham line up for the climax of the Qatar Classic.

Ireland's Laura Mylotte emerged as champion in the first Malmo Squash Open at Bellevuestadion in the Swedish city of Malmo. Top women's seed Laura Mylotte, in her fourth year on the WISPA World Tour, celebrated her maiden title success when she beat England's No2 seed Kirsty McPhee 10-8, 10-9, 9-6.

Mexican favourite Samantha Teran was in scintillating form as she despatched seven-times US National champion Latasha Khan in straight games to lift the Women's Toronto Squash Open title in the largest city in Canada.

The toil of seven years of competitive action on the WISPA World Tour finally bore fruit for Elise Ng when the 26-year-old from Hong Kong won her maiden Tour title at the Spaworld Hellendoorn Squash Open in the Netherlands town of Hellendoorn.

Brittany Lincicome qualifies for the LPGA 2007 playoffs

HOUSTON (NBA) - China center Yao Ming teamed up with Tracy McGrady to combine for 73 points as the Houston Rockets clinched home-court advantage for the first round of the NBA play-offs with a 120-117 win over the Phoenix Suns/photo FIBA

Brothers Neilsen Pro Junior-QueenslandBikini battle lines’ were drawn today, with the ASP Australasia rated girls’ division hitting Southport for opening round heats this afternoon.

Whistler, B.C. – Prior, Whistler’s ski and snowboard company, presents The Prior 2008 Topsheet Launch Party on Wednesday, April 18 at Maxx Fish to highlight the 2008 ski and snowboard graphics created by Sea to Sky artists

the high performance business arm of the National Governing Body for Olympic Taekwondo in Great Britain, has appointed three high performance coaching staff to work with their elite academy athletes

TREK British Mountainbike Series #1 - 2 (XCO) Checkendon, Reading, Great Britain, April 14

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (April 17, 2007) -- University of Alabama football won't be the only game in town this weekend as Tuscaloosa hosts the USA Triathlon Collegiate National Championship on Saturday, April 21.

Shalane Flanagan breaks the Women's American 5000M record with a time of 14:44.80 at the Mt. SAC Relays this weekend in Walnut, California/visit Flotrack for the lastest interviews from the Championships/photo Prettysporty.com

-Marlins led the table as they continued their winning run after Round 4 of the NSL. They are currently leading with 8 points