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.

The Cuban women's team has already defined two of the three judokas who will participate at the First Caribbean Games, scheduled to be held June 30 to July 4 in Guadeloupe.

With her third gold medal in the Pan American Road Cycling Championships, won in San Juan, Argentina, Cuban Arlenis Sierra improves a record that will make her a legend in this sport.

Cuban shooter Juan Miguel Rodriguez—bronze medalist in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens—won a silver medal in the qualifiers for the Central American and Caribbean Games of San Salvador 2023.

Cuba will participate as a guest at the Caribbean Baseball Series, to be held on February 2023 in the Venezuelan cities of La Guaira and Caracas, announced today the Caribbean Baseball Professional Confederation (CBPC), in Santo Domingo.

Cyclist Marlies Mejías will be Cuba's main figure in the opening races of the Pan American Cycling Championships in San Juan, Argentina, which gathers some 200 athletes from 23 countries.

Four swimmers added in the last few hours raised to 13 the number of Cuban athletes who will compete in the World Aquatic Sports Championships, to be held from June 18 to July 3 in Budapest, Hungary.

Cuban Ariel Martinez hit his first home run today and drove in the only run of the game where the Chunichi Dragons defeated the Yakult Swallows 1-0, with the ninth save of Raidel Martinez in the Japanese baseball season.

Cuban weightlifter Elizabeth Reyes achieved historic results for Cuban sport today, winning two silver medals at the World Junior Championships in Heraklion, on the mythical Greek island of Crete, where Lesther Fernandez finished sixth.

The Cubans Elizabeth Caridad Reyes Entenza and Lesther Miguel Fernandez Prades will see action today in the penultimate day of the 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships being held in Heraklion, Greece.

Cuban wrestlers concluded on Sunday their participation in the Pan American Wrestling Championships in Acapulco, Mexico, with four gold, four silver and two bronze medals.