Cuba is getting ready for what will be its test in baseball, with the penultimate opportunity to participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in a very difficult tournament to be held in Arizona, USA, in March.
Cuban high jump record holder Javier Sotomayor was confered the ‘Myth of Sport’ award during the annual gala of Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo, organized at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, in Barcelona.
A total of 175 women fencers, including the top 38 in the world rankings, will compete in the Designated Senior World Cup – Indiv & Team, Women’s Epee, to be held in Havana from Friday until Sunday, the Cuban Fencing Federation confirmed here.
The manager of the Cuban team, Miguel Borroto, described as positive the preparation stage and the six games played in two cities of Chinese Taipei towards the Premier 12 baseball event, in spite of today’s 6-12 defeat facing Venezuela.
The Brazilian judo team shone in front of its home audience to dominate the medal table of the Judo Grand Slam in Brasilia, in which the Cuban delegation also saw a good performance.
Players from Cuba and the Dominican Republic are heading the list of Latin American baseball players set to play in the final rounds of Japan’s Pacific and Central Baseball Leagues.
The Cuban para-athlete laureate, Omara Durand, known as the fastest in the world, left her mark for posterity in the athletic stadium of the Peruvian capital, where the Para-Pan American Games are taking place.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated Cuban athletes today who won gold medals in judo, wrestling, rowing and cycling in the 18th Pan American Games Lima 2019.
Cuban women’s handball team defeated the United States 24-23 in a dramatic bronze medal match of the Pan American Games Lima 2019.
Cuba won its fifth gold medal at the XVIII Pan American Games Lima-2019 this Monday through the canoeing pair composed by Mahivianet Borges and Katherin Nuevo in the C-2 at a distance of 500 meters.
Cuba’s fourth gold medal at the Pan Americans came through the 10 meter air pistol mixed team, consisting of Laina Perez and Jorge Grau, the second one for each of them.
Cuba will officially announce on Thursday its delegation made up of 420 athletes to participate the Pan American Games in Lima to be held from July 26 to August 11, 2019, according to the President of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), Jose Antonio Miranda.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Sunday congratulated the Cuban boxing team that finished first by countries at the Grand Prix held in Usti Nad Labem, in the Czech Republic.
Baseball teams of Nicaragua and Cuba will play a friendly five-game series in this Central American country in the last week of June, the sports press reported in Managua on Thursday.
The Cuban national volleyball team won the Pan-American U-20 Cup in Peru on Sunday, in an electrifying five-set final in which they imposed their character and efficiency against the refined game of the Dominican Republic team.
Former Cuban basketball player Ruperto Herrera will receive the Olympic Order, highest distinction granted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), according to the ”Jit” website.
The president of the Confederation of Professional Baseball of the Caribbean (CBPC), Juan Francisco Puello, today expressed confidence that the agreement between the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) and Major League Baseball ( MLB) can be saved.
Cuba has already qualified 350 athletes for the Pan American Games in Lima, from July 26 to August 11, reportedon Monday the weekly sports newspaper Jit in its online edition.
Cuba’s delegation to the Special Olympics World Games, which concluded Thursday, is leaving Abu Dhabi pleased to have done its homework with 11 medals and received recognition from hosts and other participants.
Cuba´s National Baseball Commissioner, Yovany Aragon, announced the appointment of Rey Vicente Anglada as the new manager for the Cuban national baseball team and revealed the agenda of matches and training with a view to the Pan American Games in Lima.
