The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel, mourned the death of former Brazilian football player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pele, considered one of the best in the history of that sport, and an icon of the style known as Jogo Bonito (Beautiful Game).

One of the news of the year in Cuban sports was the qualification for the first time to the artistic swimming finals in a World Championship, a doubly historic event since it had a man.

Cuban sports closed 2022 with numerous athletes with tickets for the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile, both in 2023, and the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, in that order, numbers that should increase.

Cuban athletics ends the year 2022 with several achievements. One great joy was triathlete Lazaro Martinez’s gold medal with a personal best 17.64 m in triple jump in the 18th World Indoor Championships held in March in Belgrade, Serbia, as were the five gold, three silver and two bronze medals won in May in the Ibero-American Athletics Championships held in Alicante, Spain. The champions were Martínez himself, Shainer Reginfo (100 m), Yaimé Pérez (discus throw), Leyanis Pérez (triple jump) and Greisys Lázara Robles (100 m hurdles)

The iconic team Movistar, the doyen of the world road cycling circuit, confirmed that the Cuban Arlenis Sierra, multiple Pan American and international elite champion, will be competing for them in the 2023 season. 

Cuban handball closed 2022 with a golden finish thanks to the victory of the men's junior national team in the qualifying tournament for the World Championship of that sport.

Cuban handball closed 2022 with a golden finish thanks to the victory of the men's junior national team in the qualifying tournament for the World Championship of that sport.

Cuban handball closed 2022 with a golden finish thanks to the victory of the men's junior national team in the qualifying tournament for the World Championship of that sport.

Wrestling in Cuba had a good end of the year, as evidenced by the 18 places earned for the Central American and Caribbean Games of San Salvador 2023 in the qualifying tournament recently held in the Dominican Republic, where the Cubans won 16 gold medals, one silver and one bronze.

The Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) has been informed that the U.S. Government has greenlighted the presence of Cuban-born athletes playing in the Major Leagues or residing in that country to join Team Cuba for the 2023 World Baseball Classic, according to FCB president Juan Reinaldo Pérez Pardo.

Judo expert Andy Granda and Canoeist Yarisleidi Cirilo were picked as the Best Cuban Athletes of the year 2022.

Some Cuban chess players strived to win a medal in the last round of the 32nd Carlos Torre Repetto In Memoriam International Chess Tournament held in Merida, Mexico and won by the Peruvian Jose Eduardo Martinez.

The judoka Andy Granda and the canoeist Yarisleidis Cirilo, both of whom won gold medals in the world championships, will be awarded today in this city as Cuba's best athletes in 2022 during a gala to be held at the headquarters of the New Latin American Cinema Foundation.

The San Silvestre race in honor of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution will be held in Havana on December 31, organized by the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation ( INDER, for its Spanish acronym).

Cuban Carlos Daniel Albornoz won in his most recent outing and is now second by best tiebreaker in the international

Gianni Infantino, president of the International Football Federation (FIFA), congratulated the Cuban people on the great support of their fans of the Qatar 2022 World Cup.