Welcome back to our weekly bulletin of British wo hands’s sports results from more or less the globe.
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Rowing:
Oxford claimed the Women’s Boat festinate on March 24 at Dorney Lake by cardinal lengths. The race should have been held at Henley but was moved due to this week’s bad weather.
Although the women’s race has been in existence since 1927, it has only had a proper home, in Henley, since the mid-1960s. Things argon beat to change in 2015, when the race testament be moved to the Tideway and depart be on the same solar day as the men’s.
In the Rowing creative activity Cup in Sydney, several women’s crews put in creditable performances.
March 23 saw Ruth Walczak compact fourth in her lightweight single sculls final.
On March 24, the new combination of Helen Glover and Polly Swann took gold in the women’s pairs, while there were bronzes for the open weight straddle of Frances Houghton and Vicky Meyer-Laker and lightweight women’s doubles Imogen Walsh and Kathryn Twyman.
Curling:
Scotland has won the final of the World Women’s Curling Championship in Riga, beating Sweden 6-5 on March 24.
The team, comprising skip Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams, Claire Hamilton and Lauren Gray had already confounded twice to Sweden earlier in the tournament, but held on to go through the final by the narrowest of margins.
Cycling:
Not a result, but great password nonetheless: the 2013 Tour of Britain will include a one-day women’s race. It will act as a curtain-raiser for the new five-day lay out race due to be held in 2014.
The one-day race will take place on September 22 and will be over the same 8.8km London circuit that the men will ride. The distance is yet to be decided.
“The aim is for it to be a world level race and all of the UCI teams, much(prenominal) as the newly formed Wiggle Honda, will be invited,” said a Tour of Britain spokesman.
Football:
The WSL Continental Cup, the precursor to the Women’s Super League season, began this weekend.
Unfortunately, the terrible weather put paying to most of the fixtures: the only survivor was the Merseyside derby, which took place only by and by six inches of snow were cleared from Liverpool’s Halton Stadium lunge in Widnes.
A crowd of 1,432 saw a competitive encounter with Liverpool taking the lead through a Louise Fors penalty in the 75th minute. This looked to be the winner until a Nicky Parris header equalised with four proceeding to go.
gymnastic exercise:
Gabby Jupp took gold this week at Liverpool’s Echo celestial orbit to become British Senior Champion. The 15 year-old was competing in her starting major elderberry bush event. Charlie Fellows took silver, with Niamh Rippon winning the bronze.
Former English Champion Hannah Whelan wing twice in her bars routine to ruin each chance she had of taking the title, eventually give uping eighth.
Jupp told the British Gymnastics website, “I’m so, so happy I didn’t ever think I’d be senior British champion.
“Floor and vault were really good, bars I was a bit disappointed but to end on beam, even though it wasn’t perfect, suited me as it’s my strongest piece.
“As a first year senior to take the title is like a dream and as for the rest of the year hopefully I can now slay the European team which would be a big measuring rod in my career.”
Snowboarding:
British snowboarder Zoe Gillings finished tenth in the final round of the World cup in Spain. Although she qualified fifth, she was knocked out in the semi-final. In an interview with the BBC she said,
“It was a tough course with almost massive jumps so I am happy to finish the season injury free.”
The overall winner was Dominique Maltais of Canada.
Tennis:
After Heather Watson’s high profile first round loss at the Miami Masters, Laura Robson progressed to the second, but fell to France’s Alize Cornet 5-7 7-5 6-1.
The match was a bizarre one, including three rain delays, two floodlight failures and a change of court. The match finally finished seven hours afterwards it had begun, although there were only 60 minutes of on-court time.
Robson took the first set and looked to be doing well until her serve imploded. She served 17 double faults and baffled six games in row to go out in the most disappointing way possible, missing out on a chance to become British number one.
Materials taken from Womens Views on News
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