Cuba Takes the Lead at Pan-Am Judo ChampionshipVaradero, Cuba, April 6 (ACN) Cuban judo experts took 22 titles in all 30 divisions within the Cadet and Juvenile categories, during the first matches held at the 2023 Open Pan-American Judo Championship underway in this western Cuban city till Sunday.

Cuba will compete with 265 athletes April 21-29 in Venezuela at the 5th ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America) Games, resumed after 12 years.

Cuba has classified 412 athletes for the upcoming Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, when disciplines such as athletics and judo have yet to close quotas.

Despite dropping four places in the last hours in the world ranking of road cycling, the Cuban Arlenis Sierra is still the best of the Americas with 1,571.33 points, good enough to be No. 19 among 1,459 riders.

Cuba will have a tough start on the road to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after announcing the groups for the men's volleyball qualifying tournament, scheduled to be held in Brazil from September 30 to October 8.

The famous Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra was Team Movistar’s best rider in Belgium’s classic Tour of Flanders, where she was the tenth to cross the finish line, 00:03:38 minutes behind the winner, the phenomenal Belgian Lotte Kopecky, who clocked 4:06:11 hours.

Two Cubans will compete today in the Pan American Weightlifting Championship held in Bariloche, Argentina, a qualifying competition for the 2024 Olympic Games.

The Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) reported that the athlete Yariel Rodriguez Yordi decided not to join the Japanese professional league’s Chunichi Dragons franchise with which he is currently under contract.

With two silver medals, Arley Calderon opened Cuba's participation in the Pan American Weightlifting Championship in Bariloche, Argentina.

Andy Granda (+100 kg) and Ivan Silva (90 kg) won bronze medals in the closing day of the Judo Grand Slam Tbilisi and placed Cuba in 18th place of the tournament.

The Cuban national soccer team defeated Guadeloupe by one goal to zero in a match played on Sunday at the Antonio Maceo stadium in this city, a victory that qualifies Cuba to the Gold Cup and grants promotion to the A League of Nations.

With six gold medals, one silver and one bronze, Cuba led the Caribbean Table Tennis Championship, held this week in Guyana, where the Cubans qualified entire teams to the Central American Games and the Pan American Games in 2023.

Cuban Mayelin Bernal Villa scored two goals today in the second victory of Olympia Košice in the beginning of the Slovak Water Polo League, after scoring four goals in the first victory.

Renowned Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra will lead the Movistar Team today in the Belgian classic Ghent-Wevelgem, a 162.5-kilometer race, with seven notable climbs in the second half.

Cuba qualified to the quarterfinals of the team tournament of the Caribbean Table Tennis Championship in Guyana, by leading undefeated the preliminary rounds among women and men.

Cuba will debut today with judokas Orlando Polanco and Kimy Bravo, both in the 66 kilograms (kg), in the first day of the Grand Slam of Tbilisi, Georgia, a competition that brings together 419 athletes from 61 countries in search of points for the world rankings (WR) and Olympic rankings.