In a wonderful evening for women’s sport, Claudia Fragapane won Young Sports Personality of the Year. The 17-year-old gymnast is the first British woman in 84 years to win four gold medals at one Commonwealth Games. Jill Stidever won the Sport’s Unsung Hero award: after spending nearly 60 years teaching thousands of children with special needs to swim.
Its been quite a time for our Rugby team, they were awarded Freedom of the City by Rugby Borough Council earlier in the week and the honours keep on coming both for the team as a whole and individual members. Yesterday in Darlington stars of the region’s sporting community descended on the Dolphin Centre for the 15th
Rugby Borough Councillors have awarded World Cup winners England Women the Freedom of the Borough, in recognition of their outstanding achievement in winning the 2014 Rugby World Cup in France. A special ceremony to honour the team was held at Rugby Town Hall, followed by a civic reception. Freedom of the Borough of Rugby is the
England have been drawn in Group F along with France, Colombia and Mexico for next summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup. Mark Sampson’s side will play their group matches in Moncton and Montreal between 9 and 17 June. The final will take place in Vancouver on Sunday 5 July. England made it to Canada 2015,
England Women will play USA and France at home in 2015 as preparations advance for next summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup. They will take on FIFA World Ranked no.1 team USA on Friday 13 February and fourth-place France on Thursday 9 April. Venues and kick-off times will be announced in the coming weeks. The matches will
Just months after a record-breaking Women’s Rugby World Cup in France, the tender process has now opened to host the event in 2017. The tournament, which was won by England after a thrilling final in Paris last August, will move to 2017 to maximise synergy with the Olympic and Rugby World Cup Sevens cycles, allowing
England’s rugby world cup winning captain Katy Mclean has been named BBC North East Sports Personality of the Year. The title was announced at the BBC North East Sports Awards at the Forum Theatre in Billingham on Wednesday. Other winners included: Sunderland Ladies FC Paralympian Jade Jones Basketball coach Fabulous Flournoy Rowing coach Graeme Mark
The players’ lawsuit against FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) will continue following the CSA’s refusal to enter into negotiations. The gender discrimination case has been brought before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal on the grounds that the FIFA would never hold the men’s tournament on artificial pitches, in fact since 1930 the men’s
Problems continue for FIFA after several leading women footballers have filed a suit claiming sex discrimination over the decision to use artificial turf at the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada. The BBC reported that legal proceedings have begun against the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) and football’s world governing body FIFA at the Ontario Human
England made it a perfect ten wins from ten in World Cup qualifying after a comfortable 10-0 dismissal of group minnows Montenegro. As reported by the FA’s Glenn Lavery in Petrovac, Montenegro Mark Sampson’s side had already qualified for Canada 2015, with their 4-0 win against Wales, but completed their campaign in emphatic fashion with
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