EVENT NEWS

September 30, 2022

Women’s Triathlon Coming to Nashville

September 30, 2022 /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ - Team Magic has announced the addition of the Inaugural Nashville Women’s Triathlon to its 2023 race season, taking place at Music City’s central Centennial Park on Sunday, May 21. Nashville’s only women’s-focused triathlon will feature both Sprint and Super-Sprint distance options with a pool swim...

September 28, 2022

UCI to host road championships for Afghan women next month in Switzerland

Afghan women racers who were evacuated last year in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover will be racing next month for the 2022 Afghanistan Women’s National Championships. The UCI confirmed the date set for October 23 near the UCI’s headquarters in Aigle, Switzerland. Velo News

September 26, 2022

Arsenal Set Women’s Super League Attendance Record

A total of 47,367 fans watched Arsenal’s 4-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur at Emirates Stadium on Saturday — almost 10,000 more than the previous record. In total, the team sold more than 53,000 tickets. The record comes just a month-and-a-half after the Women’s Euro 2022 final set a record on its...

September 25, 2022

Ewers Rides to Top American Finish in Elite Women’s Road World Championships

September 24, 2022, WOLLONGONG, Australia /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ - Team USA took on the Junior and Elite Women’s Road Races on the sixth day of the 2022 UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong, Australia. Veronica Ewers (Moscow, Idaho; EF Education-TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank) and Samantha Scott (Boise, Idaho; Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) were...

September 22, 2022

&Mother and Salomon Raise the Bar for Supporting Mothers Participating in Race Events

BERKELEY, CA & OGDEN, UT (September 22, 2022) /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ – &Mother, a nonprofit driving change and building equity for mothers in sports, is partnering with Salomon, a global leader in trail running, to kick off a project aimed at standardizing support services for parents participating in recreational athletic events. These...

September 21, 2022

Tour de France Femmes: A lasting impact?

For most of its 120 years of existence, the Tour de France was misogynistic. Pro men’s teams had no female staff members; the presence of women in official race vehicles was not allowed; and a woman journalist in the press room was a rare sight. Matters began to change in...

September 15, 2022

Spivey Hoping For Redemption As She Returns Home For Super League Triathlon Malibu

/SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ - Taylor Spivey is hoping for redemption as she returns home to California, USA, for Super League Triathlon Malibu on Saturday (13:00 local time) with a chance of taking pole position in the race for the 2022 Championship Series. The American has been a resurgent force this year,...

September 14, 2022

London Marathon follows Boston in adding non-binary category

Five of the six largest marathons in the world will soon allow runners to compete without registering as men or women. The London Marathon changed its policy on Wednesday. Inside The Games

September 13, 2022

WNBA Finals Draws 550K Viewers Opposite First NFL Sunday

Game 1 of the WNBA Finals had to go up against the first Sunday of the NFL regular season, but still drew an impressive audience. The Las Vegas Aces’ 67-64 victory over the Connecticut Sun broadcast on ABC averaged 550,000 viewers, the network announced ahead of Tuesday’s Game 2. Sunday’s...

September 12, 2022

Oiselle and Run4AllWomen Host 3rd Annual “Women Run the Vote” Virtual Relay

VIRTUAL /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ – In the lead up to the 2022 Midterm Elections, Oiselle and Run4AllWomen are teaming up to host the third annual “Women Run the Vote” Virtual Relay. Organizers and runners are driving registration now ahead of the virtual event in the Fall. “Running can be a political act,”...

September 12, 2022

Record Broken: One of the Hardest FKTs in the US

After 2 years, Sabrina Stanley’s women’s supported FKT on Nolan’s 14 is no more. Andrea Sansone began a record attempt — running south to north — in the early hours of the morning on Sept. 10 and finished less than 2 days later, on the morning of Monday, Sept. 12....

September 9, 2022

rabbit Co-Founders Keep Dreaming at Cascade Express Marathon

/SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ - Monica DeVreese and Jill Deering, co-founders of rabbit, the free-spirited, California running apparel brand, know what it means to dream. Their original dream? To create a running apparel brand that married style, function and fit. When they first concocted the idea years ago, they utilized their 30-plus...

September 8, 2022

Women-Led Wednesday Returns For Fifth Year, Challenging the Mold For Conscious Consumerism

Sun Valley, ID /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ - Women-Led Wednesday, the annual shopping holiday to support conscious consumerism in support of women-led brands, is proud to announce the fifth installment and renewed effort to empower and promote women-led business. This year, Wild Rye, founders of the initiative, welcomes Boise-based goodbuy on board as...

September 7, 2022

Olympic Champion Duffy Highlights Unique Opportunity for Amateurs To ‘Race and Watch’ At The PTO US Open

Weds 7 September, London /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ -  The Professional Triathletes Organisation has announced a second group of professional triathletes who will compete in the women’s and men’s races at the inaugural $1 million PTO US Open (17-18 September), including Olympic Champion Flora Duffy. But whilst Bermuda’s finest will go head-to-head against...

September 7, 2022

U.K. Doubles Women’s Sports Viewership From 2021

In the U.K., 36.1 million people watched women’s sports between January and July of this year — more than double the 17.5 million people that watched during the same period in 2021, according to the Women’s Sport Trust. Not only were more people watching, but each individual’s average viewing time...

September 6, 2022

A Family Affair at She Tris

Charleston, SC (September 6, 2022) /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ - If you’re local to the Charleston, SC area, you’ve probably heard or read about the all-women short distance triathlon events called She Tris Sprint Triathlon. Started by Angela Klick of Mt. Pleasant, the event series is designed to welcome women to a...

September 6, 2022

Serena’s Swan Song – ESPN’s Most-Watched Tennis Telecast on Record

Friday’s US Open Third Round match on ESPN – apparently the last in the remarkable career of Serena Williams, as she lost to Ajla Tomljanovich of Australia 7-5, 6-7, 6-1 – is the most-watched tennis telecast on record in ESPN’s 43-year history.  An average of 4.6 million viewers (P2+) tuned...

September 5, 2022

ABC to broadcast NCAA Women’s Basketball championship game in 2023

The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship game will be broadcast live on ABC for the first time in 2023. The game will air Sunday, April 2, at 3 p.m. ET and will be played at American Airlines Center in Dallas. The 2023 Women’s Final Four semifinal matchups will air...

September 1, 2022

Serena Williams’ Last Dance Continues To Spark Big TV Numbers

Serena Williams’ last dance at the U.S. Open produced monster TV numbers for ESPN. The retiring Williams’ second-round victory over Anett Kontaveit Wednesday night averaged 2.3 million viewers in the “PrimeTime at the US Open” window from 7 pm to 12:13 am ET. That was up 289% from ESPN’s comparable primetime...

August 31, 2022

Women’s Euro 2022 Is Most-Watched Ever

A month after its Wembley Stadium finale, the Women’s Euro 2022 tournament keeps setting records. UEFA revealed on Wednesday that across TV, out-of-home viewing, and streaming, the 16-team tournament had a projected global cumulative live viewership of 365 million — the most-watched women’s Euro ever. The figure is more than double 2017’s viewership of 178 million...

August 31, 2022

Katie Schide highlights successful UTMB campaign for CTS athletes

(Colorado Springs, CO – August 31, 2022) / SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ - Seventeen CTS Athletes competed in the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB®) events held in Chamonix, France between August 22 – 28, 2022, with Katie Schide scoring a runaway victory in ultramarathon’s premier 171-kilometer event. As a testament to...

August 31, 2022

Serena Williams’ U.S. Open Match Averages 2.7M Viewers

Serena Williams’ farewell tour during the U.S. Open is generating big TV ratings for ESPN. The Worldwide Leader’s coverage of Williams’ straight-sets victory over Danka Kovinic on Monday night averaged 2.7 million viewers — nearly four times the viewership ESPN earned in the comparable primetime window in 2021. FOS

August 29, 2022

Leah Kirchmann announces retirement following road world championships

After a 12-year career,  the Canadian rider will make her last appearance in Team DSM colors at the Simac Ladies Tour this week before competing at the world championships in Australia next month. VeloNews

August 29, 2022

Mountain biker Haley Batten reaches World Championship podium twice in Les Gets

Haley Batten was aiming for a world championship podium finish this week in Les Gets, France. She captured two. Four days after helping the U.S. to a third-place finish in the cross-country team relay at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Batten finished third Sunday in the elite women’s cross-country...

August 26, 2022

The NCAA Plans to Fund and Host a Women’s NIT

The NCAA’s Division I women’s basketball committee is planning to host a tournament similar to the men’s National Invitational Tournament (NIT) — a secondary event to March Madness, according to minutes of an August NCAA meeting that Front Office Sports reviewed. The minutes confirm an Athlon Sports/D1 Ticker report. FOS