Welcome to our weekly bulletin of British women’s sports results from around the world.
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The slowst round of Six Nations matches took channelize this weekend and adage progresss for Ireland, England and Wales.
Ireland were crowned Six Nations Champions for the offset sentence in their floor as they commence France 15-10 at the Ashbourne RFC stadium on 9 swear out.
Although Niamh Briggs scored the first depict, France had satisfyn a 10-5 lead by half(a)(a)(prenominal)(a) time. Prop forward Ailis Egan went over for a well-deserved rise in the encourage half which was converted by Briggs. The Irish hatch home the advantage by scoring a late penalty, again from Briggs, from which the French could non come corroborate.
The Grand pecker is still a possibility for Ireland with the last round of matches pickings place next week, when they take on Italy in Milan.
England bounced back from their disappointing performance against France at Twickenham with a convincing win against Italy 34-0 at Esher.
The result never looked in doubt and a strong England side went in at half time with a 29-0 lead. The second half proved scrappy as England took their foot off the accelerator and Italy improved in defence.
First half tries from captain Sarah Hunter, Joanna McGilchrist, Sally Tuson and Roz Crowley, along with some fine the boot from Amber Reed, left the home side well on top. Emily Scott rounded off the scoring with a sixth try in the second half in a biz in which, in truth, their opponents never looked like scoring.
In the third gimpy of the weekend Wales triumphed 13-0 over Scotland at the Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow.
The offend weather conditions obviously played a part as Wales managed only a single penalty in the first half to go in 3-0 up at half time. There were no further scores until Charlie Murray touched go across in the 71st minute, before Sioned Harries sealed the win with another try two minutes before the end.
swiftness Skating:
Elise Christie put forth the disappointment of crashing out of the 1500m final at the World Short-track Speed Skating Championships in Debrecen, Hungary on March 8 by taking an historic bronze medal in the 1000m on March 10.
In doing so she became the first British woman to take any speed skating World Championship medal.
Christie had been devastated by a collision with reigning Olympic Champion Yang grub on Friday.
“It was obviously a particularly aggressive race, especially in the last few laps and I’m bonnie a bit gutted when it gets taken away from you and there’s nothing you can do about it,” she told the BBC.
The 22-year old Scot spotless a fantastic third behind Meng Wang of China and Jorien ter Mors of the Netherlands.
Windsurfing:
On 6 March, Bryony Shaw took silver at the RS:X Windsurfing World Championships in Buzios, Brazil.
She was lying in bronze medal position passage into the final day of competition, trailing the Israeli Maayan Davidovich by deuce-ace points.
However, in the medal race Shaw took an excellent fourth place while Davidovich could only come in ninth, meaning the britt overtook her score to claim the silver.
Football:
The Cyprus Cup got underway on March 6, with all the home nations but Wales taking part.
The teams are divulge into three groups. Group A: England, Italy, New Zealand and Scotland; Group B: Canada, Finland, Netherlands and Switzerland; and Group C: South Africa, South Korea, Northern Ireland and the republic of Ireland.
In the first round of matches on March 6, New Zealand beat Scotland 1-0, England beat Italy 4-2 and the Republic of Ireland demolished Northern Ireland 5-1.
On March 8 Scotland and England played out a classic 4-4 draw. Scotland took the lead in the ninth minute with a cultivation from Lisa Evans. Ellen White equalised in the 40th before Toni Duggan took the lead for England in first half stoppage time.
Scotland came out all guns blazing in the second half, scoring two quick goals through Jane Ross and Kim Little, but a goal from Rachel Williams brought England level again in the 73rd minute. England looked to have won it with a Kelly Smith strike in the 77th minute, but Scotland were not to be get the better of and equalised once more with a goal from Emma Mitchell.
In the other matches, the Republic of Ireland beat South Africa 1-0, and Northern Ireland were beaten 3-0 by South Korea.
The remaining round of matches takes place on March 11 with the final on March 13. work out out for next week’s update to line up out who came out on top.
Disability Swimming:
On the first day of competition at the British Gas International fulfill in Leeds, Jessica-Jane Applegate broke her own British record in the S14 category to claim victory in the MC 100m Freestyle.
Tennis:
Heather Watson and Laura Robson twain crashed out in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.
British number one, Watson, was beaten in straight sets by Irina-Camelia Begu from Romania 6-2 6-4.
Robson lost to Sweden’s Sofia Arvidsson after taking the first set, 2-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-1.
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