Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated on Saturday the Leñadores, the baseball team from the eastern province of Las Tunas, for becoming the first finalists in the country’s championship. On his Twitter profile, the president noted that the “hard-hitting team with its debutant management reaches a final for the third time in six seasons”. […]
Havana, Cuba.- The Cuban women’s softball team achieved on Wednesday its second victory in the women’s World Cup of that sport, defeating South Africa 10-3, in Valencia, Spain. The victory was achieved in six innings, with personal credit to Yamerki Guevera, author of 13 strikeouts and only one hit allowed, reports colleague Hernández Luján. On […]
Havana, Cuba- The second game of the NPB All-Star Series will be played this Thursday in Hiroshima, with the presence of two Cuban players. In the first game, held on Wednesday in Nagoya, Cuban Ariel Martinez connected a single in two innings in the 8×1 victory of the Pacific League over the Central League. The […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban long jumper Maykel Massó, injured at the 24th Central American and Caribbean Games, will travel to Cuba today to receive surgical medical treatment at the Frank País International Orthopedic Complex. A statement from the Cuban delegation to this regional multi-sport event also specified that the bronze medalist in the last Olympic event […]
Santiago de Chile, Chile.- Cuba expects to participate with some 400 athletes in the Pan American Games, the general secretary of the Cuban Olympic Committee, Ruperto Herrera, declared. In an interview with Prensa Latina, Herrera, who is also a member of the Panam Sports coordinating committee, tasked with running sports on the continent, reminded that […]
Havana, Cuba.- Different delegations of member countries of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) highlighted at the preparatory meeting of the Council of Ministers in Guatemala, Cuba’s active and constructive role within the consultation and cooperation body. Rodolfo Benítez, general director of Multilateral Affairs and International Law of Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cubans Sulian Matienzo and Laura Suarez were crowned champions of the Spanish Volleyball League 2023, as their team Hidramar Gran Canaria triumphed. With a notable contribution from the Cubans, the Canary Islands club overcame in the fourth match of the final the defending champion Tenerife La Laguna in five sets. Matienzo was named […]
Havana, Cuba.- Pinar del Rio beat Cienfuegos 2-0 and took advantage of Santiago de Cuba’s failure to remain alone at the top of the 62nd National Baseball Series, which will drop the curtains of its sixth particular sub-series this Thursday. As locals in their Capitán San Luis stadium, the Vegueros of mentor Alexander Urquiola scored […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban boxing raised to seven wins in a row and maintained its undefeated record at the World Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with one man still to step into the ring on the day. On Thursday, young Alejandro Claro and Fernando Arzola achieved victories. Claro (48 kg) beat Armenian Bareghan 4-0 in the second […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuba’s best canoeists and kayakers are training in Bydgoszcz, Poland, ahead of the World Cup in Szeged, Hungary, scheduled for May 11-14. “Almost all of them are predicted to be on the podium, although they will find ranked opponents such as Olympic and world champions,” Alejandro Hamze, president of the Cuban federation of […]
Havana, Cuba.- Daniel Bas, official of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, received the last group of athletes who participated in the V Alba Games of Venezuela 2023. “We are very proud of their performance, they represented the homeland with dignity,” he said after the arrival of the athletes to Cuba. Also […]
Havana, Cuba.- A simple opening ceremony, which did not lack touches of emotion, inaugurated on Tuesday the 56th International Chess Tournament Capablanca in Memoriam 2023, at the downtown Havana Libre Hotel. The record number of represented players was confirmed by the president of the Cuban Chess Federation, Carlos Rivero, during the gala that was attended […]
Havana, Cuba.- More than a thousand foreign delegates will participate today in the Havana Convention Center in the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and anti-imperialism. The foreign visitors will be joined by around 200 national delegates, and together they will raise their voices against the US blockade and in favor of the removal of […]
Havana, Cuba.- The Channel Europe for Cuba today paid tribute to the two workers who died as a result of an accident on Friday at the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant, located in Matanzas, in the western part of the island. In its Sunday broadcast through the YouTube audiovisual network, the platform conveyed its condolences […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel described the elections that are taking place in the country on Sunday as a party and a day of extreme joy. “We are going for another new revolutionary victory,” the head of State noted after casting his vote. Diaz-Canel is one of eight candidates for the Cuban National People’s […]
Havana, Cuba.- The Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) reiterated today its complaints about the discriminatory treatment suffered by its players to take part in the V World Classic of the discipline In particular, the FCB criticized the license granted by the United States Government to the organizers of the event, banning players of Cuban origin residing […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban catcher Ariel Martinez signed on Wednesday with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters team of the Professional League of Japan. Happy to be able of continuing to represent Cuban baseball, the 26-year-old catcher, who has played in that Asian country since 2018 said, although until now he was part of the Chunichi Dragons team. […]
Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel received the chief of the International Boxing Association (IBA), Umar Kremlev, the weekly Jit reported on Wednesday. The website of the Cuban Sports Institute (Inder) noted that the parties agreed on major steps for the development of boxing in Cuba and discussed boosting collaboration in the development of boxers […]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.- The arrival of four Cuban beach and indoor volleyball coaches and officials is welcomed this Friday by sports officials in Cambodia, a country that will host the Southeast Asian Games in 2023. Karell Peña and Berto Friol Barrios are the beach and indoor volleyball coaches, respectively, while Leonid Abum and Natyelis Riol […]
Díaz-Canel: Cuba dressed up Caribbean sports in luxury
