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September Sunday

Cuba finished second by country in the Junior Pan American Judo Cup, a competition that took place this weekend in Panama with the participation of 182 athletes - 102 men and 80 women - from 20 countries.

Cuba’s Erick Hernandez juggled a soccer ball with his head and feet for 10 hours, 13 minutes, 3 seconds and 88 centiseconds, enough to beat his own previous mark―10 hours―and set a new world record.

The Cuban Athletics Federation (FCA) denounced the massive denial of visas by the U.S. Embassy in Havana, which prevented nearly its entire delegation from participating in the 2025 World Masters Indoor Athletics Championships, held in Gainesville, Florida, from March 23 to 30.

Cuban diver Anisley Garcia was left out of the final of the 10-meter platform of the first phase of the World Cup and will try today to be included among the finalists of the three-meter springboard, based in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The four Cuban divers who will compete in the qualifying tournament hosted by Medellín, Colombia, on May 11 to 18 are stepping up their training, intended as they are to earn a place in the Junior Pan American Games, to be held in Asuncion, Paraguay, on August 9 to 23 this year.

Ball dominator Erick Hernandez will try this Saturday, April 5, to surpass 10 hours of uninterrupted dominance using only his feet and head, without the support of his thighs.

The professional boxing event on April 11 in the Cuban resort of Varadero will feature six bouts, with a 12-round bout for Julio Cesar La Cruz (101.6 kilograms) and the debut of Yakelin Estornell (66.6 kg) in four rounds, to be held at the Melia Internacional Hotel with the support of the AGON Sports promoter.

The 18-year-old world rapid chess champion Volodar Murzin, from Russia, will be one of the five members of the Elite group of the international chess tournament Capablanca in Memoriam, scheduled to be held in Cuba's Varadero Beach resort on May 9 to 19.

Cuban divers Carlos Daniel Ramos and Bernardo Arias Peña debuted with the silver medal in the synchronized platform of the 2025 Eurasian Cup, with headquarters in the Russian city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the participation of 40 ornamentalists from six countries.

Four Cubans will compete today in the 2025 Eurasian Diving Cup, which gathers 40 athletes from six countries―Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Ecuador, Argentina and Cuba―in the Russian city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Cuba's national team was eliminated from the preliminaries of the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup after losing 0-4 to Trinidad & Tobago, host of the decisive second leg at the Ato Boldon Stadium.

Cuba's rowing increased to nine the quotas for the 2nd edition of the Junior Pan American Games of Asuncion 2025, Paraguay, after a letter from the president of the Pan American Confederation (CPR), Maria Arge Diez Gonzalez sent to the Cuban Olympic Committee (COC).

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