Cuban canoeists Yarisleidis Cirilo and Khaterin Nuevo will seek today more finals A at the World Cup canoeing competition that will conclude this Sunday in Poznan, Poland, with the presence of about 400 athletes from some 40 countries.

Cuba debuts today in the first day of the World Cup in Poznan, Poland, with Yarisleidis Cirilo-Khaterin Nuevo and José Ramón Pelier- Tabiani Diéguez Álvarez in the 500-m tandem canoes (C-2).

The six Cuban divers who will participate in the upcoming World Championship have already greatly increased the level of complexity of their dives, head coach Hugo Perez de Corcho announced exclusively to the Cuban News Agency.

Cuban Jasiel Rivero will be in action from today in the play-offs of the ACB basketball league in Spain, with his team Valencia Basket, against Bitci Baskonia in the quarterfinal phase.

Juvenile world medalists Juan Carley Vazquez, Shot Put, and sprinter Shainer Reginfo are part of the list of athletes to represent the island at the Guadeloupe 2022 Caribbean Games, to take place in June.

The five Cuban canoeists who won two gold, two silver and one bronze medals at the World Cup in Racice, Czech Republic, returned to the Bidgostia, Poland, to continue their preparation for the World Cup in the Polish city of Poznan on May 26-29.

With five gold, three silver and two bronze medals, Cuba was the third country in the Ibero-American Championships in Athletics held in Alicante, Spain, after the host (14-8-8) and the Dominican Republic (6-5-3).

After winning six gold medals, 17-year-old Andrea Becali prevailed in the 5-km sprint in open water with 59:12.60 min in the closing day of the Marcelo Salado Swimming Cup, held this week.

Cuba said goodbye today to the 2022 Canoe Sprint World Cup in Racice, Czech Republic, with a gold, a silver and a bronze medal, good enough to finish sixth in the competition (2-2-1).

The connoeists Yurisleidis Cirilo and Khaterin Nuevo stood out today in Cuba's debut on the first day of the World Cup in Racice, Czech Republic, by advancing to the single-seater canoe A finals (C- 1) and the two-seater (C-2).

Havana, Cuba, May 20 (ACN) The five Cuban athletes who will participate in the speed canoeing and kayaking World Cup will debut today on the first day of the contest, scheduled to take place until next Sunday in Racice, Czech Republic.

Led by Serguei Torres, Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion in the two-seater (C-2) at a thousand meters, all will have action Friday in preliminaries.

Torres, this time, will do it in the single-seater (C-1) at a thousand meters, and will be in the third heat of the modality, so it will be one of the main attractions for fans and specialists.

Jose Ramón Pelier, also an Olympian, will have more activity, since he will row in the C-1 at a thousand meters -first heat- and in the C-2 at 500 meters -fourth heat-, in the latter for the first time in international tournaments and he will do it in the company of Thabaini Dieguez Alvarez, a debutant at this level.

For their part, Yarisleidis Cirilo and Khaterine Nuevo, present in Tokyo, will first compete in the C-2 at 500 meters -first heat- and then in the C-1 at 200 meters for the first and third heats, in that order.

Without taking into account the possible advancement of these canoes to the following phases of their respective modalities, on Saturday Cirilo and Nuevo will return to the aquatic track in the C-2 at 200 meters, and as announced by its organizers, it will be in the final A – direct-.

The same thing will happen on Sunday, the last day of the World Cup, with Torres and Pelier, since they will seek medals in the final A -direct- in the five thousand meters, the canoeing breath-hold test and that is not in the Olympic program.

With the presence of 16 Cubans, the Ibero-American Athletics Championship begins today, in Alicante, Spain, until next Sunday.

Everything is ready and expectations are growing for the long-awaited debut of Domadores de Cuba in professional boxing circuits, a party to be held today at Palenque of the San Marcos National Fair, in Mexico.

The 25-year-old Elisbet Gámez Matos, the best Cuban swimmer in the last two Olympic cycles, will enjoy in the next few months her first scholarship—granted by the International Swimming Federation—with the training base will be in Thailand.

The five Cuban canoeists who will compete from May 20 to 22 in the World Cup in Recice, Czech Republic, are completing their preparation at the venue of the event after a brief training base in Poland.

Cuban Yurisbel Gracial hit a double and a single in four innings and drove in a run in the 5-1 victory of the SoftBank Falcons over the Seibu Lions in the Japanese professional baseball league Tuesday.