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Britain name women's squad for World Wheelchair Basketball Championships

  • Wheelchair Basketball News

Great Britain have named their women's squad for this year's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Hamburg.

Under-25 World Championships in Beijing, so there is a very cohesive and confident feel to the team

Defensively this team is strong in understanding our half court and full court principles.

By the time the World Championships come the GB women will be strong."


Great Britain announce squad for Wheelchair Rugby World Championships

  • Wheelchair Rugby News

Great Britain have announced their squad for the 2018 International Wheelchair Rugby Federation World Championships in Sydney. 

 David Pond, chief executive of GB Wheelchair Rugby said: "This is an exciting team selection with

 GB Wheelchair Rugby, who are currently ranked fifth in the world and are the European champions


Team USA go 9-3 up to stand on the brink of reclaiming Curtis Cup in New York

  • Golf

The United States are on the brink of reclaiming the Curtis Cup from Great Britain and Ireland (GB&

Team USA need just one-and-a-half points from the eight available from tomorrow's concluding singles

maintained her 100 per cent record.Kristen Gillman, left, and Lauren Stephenson pictured after putting Team

matches in a single Cup competition since the format was changed to three days a decade ago.The home team

Andrea Lee beating Lily May Humphreys and Shannon McWilliam 3&2.Mehaffey - one of two returning GB

I just keep reminding them, stay focused, one shot at a time," said Team USA's Virginia Derby Grimes.


Gillman excels as Team USA take first day Curtis Cup lead on home ground

  • Golf

Team USA, favourites to regain the Curtis Cup that the Great Britain and Ireland (GB&I) team won

The US line-up for the  the best known team trophy for women amateur golfers appeared stronger than

and that soon became evident at Quaker Ridge Golf Club as Kristen Gillman led the charge for the home team

foot downhill birdie putt.Olivia Mehaffey, the Curtis Cup veteran and the highest ranked player on the GB

&I team at number 16, got her team off to a winning start in company with Sophie Lamb as they beat

Stephenson and Gillman tipped the scoring the home way.Great Britain and Ireland's players trail 4-2 to Team


Great Britain and Ireland eye Curtis Cup defence in New York

  • Golf

Great Britain and Ireland (GB&I) will hope to retain the Curtis Cup title at the 40th edition of

The women's amatuer competition sees GB&I face the challenge of the United States in a team event.Unlike

the Ryder Cup, the tournament has not seen European players added to the GB&I team.Held on a biennial

Li, Sophia Schubert, Lauren Stephenson and Lilia Vu in her team.They will face the challenge of the GB

&I team selected by Scotland's Elaine Farquharson-Black.Her selection includes India Clyburn, Annabell


Minsk 2019 places up for grabs at Women's European Boxing Championships

  • Boxing

Boxers will be looking to secure their places at the Minsk 2019 European Games when they compete at the European Boxing Confederation (EUBC) Women's European Championships at the Asics Arena in Bulgarian capital Sofia this week.

however, is middleweight boxer and reigning European champion Natasha Gale, who has been suspended by GB

Boxing because of "unacceptable conduct" - reportedly in regard to her interaction with team-mates.More


Pink power - Leander celebrates its first 200 years

  • The Big Read

Next Thursday evening (June 7) in central London, a group of rowing enthusiasts will stroll across the Thames from the terrace of the House of Commons and take up station outside St Thomas’ Hospital, where a memorial stone is to be unveiled.

recruit athletes from all over the country because they know their best chance of getting into the GB

The Leander book states that in 2017 fully 63 per cent of the GB senior team were club members.A few

These include the Paris rugby club Stade Français and latterly the Scotland football team.


Gayle joins GB Taekwondo coaching set-up

  • Member National Association and Continental Unions News

Former athlete Jordan Gayle has returned to the GB Taekwondo set-up by taking a coaching role at the

It's really exciting being back into the mix of things with the team," said Gayle.Jordan Gayle, right

, follows other athletes into the GB Taekwondo coaching set-up ©GB Taekwondo"I've always looked at the

Gayle is from Manchester, where GB Taekwondo and the National Performance Centre are based."


British Lionhearts welcome reigning champions Astana Arlans Kazakhstan for first WSB semi-final

  • Boxing

The British Lionhearts will host defending champions Astana Arlans Kazakhstan in the first of the World Series of Boxing semi-finals taking place this week.

medallist Cheavon Clarke, who will compete in the heavyweight fight.The headline name on the Arlans team

Coast 2018 ©Getty ImagesGB Boxing chief executive Matthew Holt said: "It is a great honour for the team

to start the play-offs in Sheffield, home of the GB Olympic Boxing programme, where our WSB boxers train

The team has shown its potential so far this season and we are confident there will be some great bouts


Jones and Walkden in British squad for European Taekwondo Championships

  • Member National Association and Continental Unions News

Double Olympic champion Jade Jones and two-time world champion Bianca Walkden have been selected in the Great Britain squad for next month’s European Taekwondo Championship in Kazan. 

 The remaining members of women’s section are the team are Jordyn Smith, winner of a gold medal

Junior Championships in Tunisia last week, Maddison Moore, Lauren Williams and Jade Slavin.The men’s team

Longobardi-Radford, Damon Sansum, Lutalo Muhammad and Jack Spall.The senior European Championships team

t.co/IMGUuS1zN0#Euros18 #Taekwondo @wte_taekwondo @TeamGB @uk_sport pic.twitter.com/B56VCnXEDr— GB

Championships will take place in the Russian city of Kazan from May 10 to 13.The British taekwondo team


Dame Katherine Grainger: Sport should be held to the highest standard to remain truly influential and inspirational

  • Inside the Blogs

I’m old enough to remember a time before the introduction of the National Lottery in the United Kingdom. 

 Performances were of course celebrated and the pride of competing for Team GB was strong, but success

was limited and in 1996 the British team finished 36th on the Olympic medal table in Atlanta with one

 Team GB brought back more medals than ever before and in the skeleton event we had three podium


David Owen: Women’s team sport in UK enjoying outstanding period - but spare thought for softball players

  • Inside the Blogs

Hockey - Olympic champions; cricket - world champions; and now netball – Commonwealth Games champions.

GB softball is a self funded program, and is one of the only countries in Europe without any funding

each year we are required to pay thousands of pounds out of our own pockets in order to compete for GB

Covering the costs of competing for Team GB softball can be a challenge, and as you can imagine takes

three European sides - The Netherlands, Italy and the Czech Republic - above Great Britain.Team GB

Since six of the Dutch team are in Pearce’s club side, and other GB players perform in Italy, there is



Britain book place in women's BNP Paribas World Team Cup Finals

  • Wheelchair Tennis

Britain qualified for the women’s tournament at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup Finals after winning the

rain, but play eventually got underway at the Vilamoura Tennis Academy.Lucy Shuker gave the British team

- GB Women reach the World Team Cup Finals!

in Portugal, Louise Hunt & Lucy Shuker beat Viktoriia Lvova & Polina Shalkirova 7-5, 6-1 and GB

Cup Final in The Netherlands.Britain will now take their spot at the World Team Cup final, due to take

and the Argentina women's team were the successful qualifiers from the Americas while Morocco's men


Clean sweep start for British women top seeds in World Team Cup European Qualification at Vilamoura

  • Wheelchair Tennis

Britain’s women, top seeds in the BNP Paribas World Team Cup European Qualification event, earned the

regional qualification events for the International Tennis Federation’s flagship wheelchair tennis team

event, this week’s competition will see one men’s team and one women’s team qualify for the 2018 BNP

Paribas World Team Cup in Apeldoorn in The Netherlands from May 28 until June 3.A total of 18 nations

win came on a day when new Tennis Foundation Disability Performance Director Matt Hammond joined the GB

support team in Vilamoura.Great Britain are due to play Sweden on Friday (April 13) in the second of