A deafening roar at Twickenham capped a 2025 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup that smashed attendance records, while India\u2019s first Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup triumph sparked nationwide celebrations.<\/p>\n
A\u2019Ja Wilson delivered a jaw-dropping Women\u2019s National Basketball Association (WNBA) season to redefine what dominance looks like and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone raced to a sensational world title at a new distance in \u200dthe 400m.<\/p>\n
While the year was full of lasting images of women in sport that reshaped their visibility, it was also marked by new franchises, bigger television audiences and greater advertising impact, sending women\u2019s sport into 2026 on a wave of momentum.<\/p>\n
Red Roses redefine rugby\u2019s potential<\/p>\n
England hosted and won a Rugby World Cup that shattered records and redefined the sport\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n
The more than 440,000 tickets sold was triple the number at the 2021 edition and the crescendo was at Twickenham where 81,885 fans \u2013 the biggest \u2060crowd to watch a women\u2019s rugby match \u2013 witnessed England\u2019s Red Roses triumph 33\u201313 over Canada.<\/p>\n
Sally Horrox, World Rugby\u2019s chief of Women\u2019s Rugby, described the spectacle as \u201csomething girls\u2019 dreams are made of\u201d.<\/p>\n
More than half the tournament spectators were female and a huge 50 per cent attended their first-ever women\u2019s rugby match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deafening roar at Twickenham capped a 2025 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup that smashed attendance records, while India\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":470031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2341,48767,5407,5336,2147,15535,6026,134137,1567,4144,77061,2983,213535,5224,62,213533,213532,67,132,68,232,213534,213536,12860,72630,213531],"class_list":{"0":"post-470030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-aja-wilson","9":"tag-alex-morgan","10":"tag-arsenal","11":"tag-breanna-stewart","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-chelsea-gray","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-european-championship","16":"tag-india","17":"tag-las-vegas-aces","18":"tag-mumbai","19":"tag-nike","20":"tag-red-roses","21":"tag-serena-williams","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sydney-mclaughlin-levrone","24":"tag-twickenham","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-wnba","29":"tag-womens-cricket-world-cup","30":"tag-womens-rugby-world-cup","31":"tag-womens-national-basketball-association","32":"tag-world-championships","33":"tag-world-rugby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115778251875258204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}