HAVANA, Cuba, May 5 (ACN) Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra will try to win today the first women's edition of the Tour of Andalusia (Route of the Sun) after prevailing in the first two stages of the race, disputed by 17 teams in Spain.

The Cubans Mayelín Bernal and Aliannis Ramírez with the Slovakian club Olympia Košice, and Cecilia Díaz with the Serbian runner-up Red Star Belgrade, will compete from Friday to Sunday in the finals of the Danube Water Polo League against a university team from Great Britain and Romania’s WPA Bucuresti, respectively.

Cuban Cecilia Diaz Mesa continued her scoring streak with her team Red Star Belgrade’s traditional duel with the Vojvodina, this time in the final of the Serbian First League A, in which she scored twice in the latter’s 14-10 win as home team.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the Republic of Cuba welcomed Riccardo Fraccari, President of the World Baseball and Softball Confederation (WBSC).

Cuban Greco-Roman gladiators have clear-cut goals for the Pan American Wrestling Championships to be held in Acapulco, Mexico, from May 5 to 8, where they will seek two places to the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile 2023.

Cuban Arlenis Sierra will start today as the overall and points leader of the first women's edition of the Tour of Andalusia, or Ruta del Sol (Route of the Sun) in Spain, where she won her first victory with her team Movistar yesterday.

Cuban pitchers Livan Moinelo and Yariel Rodriguez played today with efficiency their roles as relievers, improved particular numbers and supported the triumph of their respective clubs at the Japanese Professional Baseball League.

Cuban Arlenis Sierra, leader of the Movistar Team in the Vuelta a Andalucia, won Tuesday the first of the three stages of the race in Spain, her first victory with the powerful club.

Cuban Jasiel Rivero and the Spanish team Valencia Basket will go in search of being finalists of the Eurocup basketball tournament tomorrow, when they face the Italian team Bologna in the semifinals stage.

Cuban Arlenis Sierra, one of the best road cyclists in the world, will head from today until Thursday the diverse lineup selected by the famous Movistar Team for the Vuelta a Andalucia, in Spain.

Varadero will host on May 5-7 the second stop of the North, Central America and Caribbean Circuit ( NORCECA) of beach volleyball, a tournament where Cuba will participate with four (f and m) duos.

Riccardo Fraccari, president of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), arrived on Monday in Havana for a visit - which he said - aims to continue talks with Cuban sports authorities on the possibility that their players can play in other leagues abroad.

Still at the top and with no one stalking them, the Romanian Irina Bulgama and the American Hans Niemann start today the penultimate round of games of the 55th Capablanca Memorial chess tournament, bound to confer the top trophies to foreign visitors, at least in the Premier event, in which 10 women are competing.

Cuban Jasiel Rivero and the Spanish team Valencia Basket will play tomorrow against the French team Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92, in search of a place in the semifinals of the Eurocup basketball tournament, which in terms of quality is only behind the Euroleague in the Old Continent.

The Cuban duo (m) of Noslen Diaz and Jorge Luis Alayo won the gold medal on Sunday after beating the US duo of Kolinske-Cory 2-0, in the final of the first stop of the North, Central America and Caribbean Circuit (Norceca) of beach volleyball, held in Aguascalientes, Mexico.