EVENT NEWS

August 11, 2022

After 16-year hiatus, women’s championship tour returns to Teahupo’o

For the first time in 16 years, the best female surfers are set to compete at Teahupo’o. Women previously competed at Teahupo’o, the infamous reef break in Tahiti whose name roughly translates to “wall of skulls,” but after 2006, surfing’s international federation stopped holding women’s contests at Teahupo’o, citing safety...

August 9, 2022

Serena Williams Says Farewell to Tennis On Her Own Terms—And In Her Own Words

I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people. Maybe the best word...

August 8, 2022

Sue Bird’s Final Regular-Season Home Game Sets Attendance Records

WNBA legend Sue Bird took the hardwood for her final regular-season home game on Sunday evening — to a historic crowd. About 18,100 fans packed into Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle to celebrate Bird’s illustrious career, the team announced. FOS

August 8, 2022

Morro Bay, California Welcomes East Coast Fitness Celebrity For A First-Of-Its-Kind Event At The Iconic Morro Rock

Morro Bay, CA /SPORTSWIREWOMEN/ - The Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce that as part of their brand-new reimagined and rebranded 2022 Avocado Margarita Food and Drink Festival, Friday, Sept. 9 - Sunday, Sept 11, the event will feature satellite stage events at the iconic Morro Rock...

August 7, 2022

Surfing the biggest growth sport among women in Australia

Surfing was one of the fastest-growing activities during the pandemic, alongside basketball and soccer, with 196,000 people aged 15 or older picking it up in 2020 or last year, according to the latest data from the Australian Sports Commission. AFR

August 3, 2022

Tour De France Femmes Proves TV Hit As Viewing Figures Released

The eight stages captured, on average, a quarter of the French television audience, a total of 2.25 million viewers across the channels France 2 and France 3 and a total of 20 million people watching across the entire race. The peak was 5.1 million viewers, a 45.6% audience share, for...

August 3, 2022

Elevate Women 4-Tri Malibu Triathlon Women’s Only Training Program

/SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ – 2XU Malibu Triathlon is excited to announce the Elevate Women 4Tri 7-week triathlon training program will kick off the week off August 8th and lead right into race weekend September 17-18, 2022. The women’s only training program is designed to encourage participation for women learning the sport...

August 1, 2022

England Lionesses Women’s Euro Victory Leads to Record 17.6 Million Viewership for BBC

The England Lionesses’ historic win in the Women’s Euro 2022 soccer championship has proved to be a viewership bonanza for the BBC. England beat eight-time champions Germany at London’s Wembley stadium in the final on Sunday evening, with Ella Toone and Chloe Kelly scoring for the victors. The game was played in front of a...

August 1, 2022

England’s Lionesses roar to victory in Euro 2022: how women’s football beat the sceptics

England’s women have won the European football championship, bringing a major international trophy home for the first time since the men’s team won the World Cup in 1966, more than a lifetime ago for many of the fans who crowded into Wembley Stadium for the match. They beat Germany, English...

July 31, 2022

Felicia Stancil Wins Elite Women’s BMX Racing World Championship

NANTES, France /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ –  Team USA showed up to the second day of racing at the 2022 UCI BMX Racing World Championships with 12 riders heading in to the quarterfinals. The highlight of the day came from the Elite Women’s race with Felicia Stancil (Lake Villa, Ill.; Factory SSquared/Answer) winning...

July 31, 2022

Women sweep the podium at Near Death Marathon

The three women sped to the finish line at the world-renowned Canadian Death Race (CDR) hosted by Sinister Sports, for a remarkable first all-women top-three finish for the 22nd running of the CDR event. Edmonton’s Priscilla Forgie led the pack with a blistering time of 4:06:21, followed by Jenny Quilty of...

July 27, 2022

Women’s gold-medal game set as soccer finale for 2024 Olympics

The women’s gold-medal match will serve as the finale of the Olympic soccer tournament at the Summer Games in 2024. The Paris Olympics will mark the first time the soccer competition will conclude with the women’s final instead of the men’s, FIFA revealed Wednesday when it announced the full soccer tournament...

July 27, 2022

All-female rowing team breaks world record with 2,400-mile trek from California to Hawaii

After 34 days and more than 2,400 nautical miles, four female rowers made history on Tuesday morning by wrapping up their journey from California to Hawaii in record time.  CBS Sports

July 22, 2022

Tour de France Femmes Is a Women’s Sports Triumph Long in the Making

Up against the sport’s long, male-dominated history and its masculinity-driven marquee event, the women of cycling secured the first official women’s Tour de France stage race in 33 years. SI

July 21, 2022

London Marathon changes policy for pregnant and postpartum participants

London Marathon Events has made immediate policy changes to make the event more inclusive. Participants who are pregnant or postpartum – including general entry participants and participants with a Good For Age or Championship place in the 2022 TCS London Marathon on Sunday 2 October – will now have the opportunity to...

July 20, 2022

Here’s What You Need to Know About the Inaugural Tour de France Femmes

On Sunday, for the first time in a very long time, there will be two pelotons in Paris racing the Tour de France. The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift begins on July 24 and runs for eight days across northeast France. The race features 144 women from 24 teams, and...

July 20, 2022

Liv Brings Women’s Only A-Line Session Back to Crankworx Whistler

WHISTLER, Canada (July 20, 2022)/SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/- After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Liv, the company dedicated to getting more women on bikes, has again partnered with Crankworx Whistler to bring the Liv Women’s Only A-Line Session back to the event on Sunday, August 7. The following day, Liv...

July 15, 2022

Here’s What it Feels Like to Run 100 Miles at the Western States

The Western States 100-mile race has a cool history, a gorgeous route, and the world’s best masochists. This short film shows everything that goes into the race for three women who run in the rarefied air of people who can not only last the entire 100 miles, but who can...

July 15, 2022

Women’s Euros breaks attendance record with 15 games to go

The Women's European Championship has broken the competiton's attendance record before the knockout stages, figures have shown. The 2017 Euros in the Netherlands had a total crowd figure of 240,055. The 8,173 attendance figure at France's 2-1 victory over Belgium on Thursday took the total for this year's competition to...

July 6, 2022

British Triathlon creates ‘open’ category for transgender athletes to compete at all levels

Triathlon has become the first sport in the UK to ban transgender athletes from racing in the female category at elite and grassroots level after deciding that “fairness of competition is paramount”. Under British Triathlon’s new policy, which kicks in on 1 January 2023, transgender athletes over the age of...

July 5, 2022

Colorado runner Allie McLaughlin shatters women’s record at Mount Marathon

The world champion mountain runner from Colorado Springs, Colorado, blew past the rest of the field Monday, breaking the Mount Marathon women’s record by 39 seconds. McLaughlin’s time of 47 minutes, nine seconds was also more than five minutes faster than her closest competitors. ADN

July 4, 2022

Break the Record. Break the Cycle.

YAKIMA, WA /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ - Rosalie Fish ran 12 miles for Miles Against Violence at the Downtown Yakima Mile, each mile she completed received over $4,400 pledged—over $53,000 in total pledge donations. Fish, internationally respected athlete and activist, ran the Yakima Mile this year “to demonstrate that every single one...

June 29, 2022

Gravel Worlds reaches goal of 1,000 women participants

On Wednesday, the Pirate Cycling League, hosts of Garmin Gravel Worlds, announced that the event had reached a milestone: 1,000 women have signed up to race across the event’s five distances. The number corresponds to nearly 40 percent of the event’s total registrants. Velo News

June 28, 2022

Tour de France Femmes gets NTT-powered innovations as part of technology deal

NTT has served as the technology partner of the men’s event for the past eight years and now, it will offer its services to the women’s edition of the marquee cycling race. NTT will provide live rider tracking throughout the event via the Tour de France Femmes’ ‘race centre’ platform,...

June 28, 2022

Japanese women’s road race indefinitely postponed over argument about team vehicles

The women’s road race at the Japanese national championships was indefinitely postponed due to an argument over whether team vehicles should be allowed in the race convoy. The event was due to take place at the Hiroshima Central Forest Park last Saturday, but officials decided not to hold it after...