Cuban Alfredo Despaigne had an amazing performance last weekend in the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB).

Cuban long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarria won the Gold Medal on Wednesday in Ostrava, Czech Republic where he jumped 8.66 meters constituting the best world mark of the season.

Cuba will attend with 13 athletes the 2018 World Junior Athletics Championships based in Tampere, Finland, from next July 10 to 15, led by triple jumper Jordan Diaz, 2017 U18 universal monarch.

Cuba will host from next June 15-20 the Fencing Continental Tournament, qualifier to the Lima 2019 Pan-American Games at Havana´s Sports City Coliseum.

Cuban long-jumper Juan Miguel Echevarria will compete today at the 57th Ostrava Golden Spike meeting, in the Czech Republic, where he will try to maintain the good results achieved in the 2018 IAAF Diamond League.

Cuban will attend the 2018 Pan-American Men's Handball Championship, to be held from June 16-24 in Greenland, event that will grant three tickets to next year World Championships.

Cuba won undefeated the 2018 NORCECA Boy's Youth Continental Volleyball Championship U-19 held in San Jose, Costa Rica, thus earning a ticket to the coming world cup.

Cuba obtained three medals during the 4 th Diamond Athletics League in Rome thanks to long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarria and Discuss throwers Yaime Perez and Denia Caballero.

Cuban Alfredo Despaigne hit his 12th homerun this season in the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB).

Cuban Arlenis Sierra finished second in the 6th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic, last race in her raid for the United States.

Cuban Jorge Felix Alvarez had a terrific performance when finishing third in the men´s 25m rapid fire pistol event of the 2018 ISSF World Cup in Rifle and Pistol events held in Munich, Germany.

Reynier Henriquez and Yunior Reytor were the best-ranked Cubans in the 2018 FIE Epee Grand Prix of Cali, Colombia, won by Olympic monarchs: Frenchman Yannick Borel and Hungarian woman Emese Szasz-Kovacs.