Cuban Jasiel Rivero and his club Valencia Basket will face UCAM Murcia today, in one of the matches of the quarterfinal phase of the Copa del Rey basketball tournament in Spain.

With a mark of 4.55 meters (m), Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, London 2012 Olympic runner-up, finished sixth at the Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais athletic meeting in Lievin, France, a gold category tournament of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

With a mark of 17.21 meters (m), Cuban triple jumper Lazaro Martinez had a golden debut at the current winter tour, winning in a clear way at the Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais athletic meeting in Lievin, France, a tournament with gold category of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

Led by world runner-up Ivan Silva and multiple Pan American medalists Arnaes Odelin and Maylin del Toro, 12 Cubans will compete in the Judo Grand Slam in Tel Aviv, Israel, attended by 306 athletes from 34 countries.

Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, second in the 2012 London Olympics, will compete today in the Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais athletic meeting in Lievin, France, a gold category tournament of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

Luis Ernesto Quesada keeps up his good pace and Carlos Daniel Albornoz had two consecutive wins: both are the best Cuban players in the Ibero-American Chess Championship held in Mexico City.

 After their poor performance at the Grand Slam of Paris, Cuban judokas will compete this week in 12 of the 14 divisions of the circuit stop in Tel Aviv, Israel, attended by 306 athletes from 34 countries.

The Cuban women’s soccer team is currently training in this eastern province to contest the eliminatory meet against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines next Wednesday towards the Australia-Lithuania World Championship.

Cuban high jumper Luis Enrique Zayas will be in action today at the athletics meeting in Banska Bistryka, Slovakia, in the silver category of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

The Cuban Luis Ernesto Quesada will play today among the leaders of the Ibero-American Chess Championship, which in Mexico City gathers 167 contestants and has already held three of its nine rounds.

Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, second place in the 2012 Olympic Games, will compete today in the athletics meeting in L’Eure (Val de Reuil), in France, her third indoor event of the year.

The Russian Arkady Dvorkovich, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), met on Wednesday with Osvaldo Vento Montiller, president of INDER—Cuba’s top sports authority—and Roberto León Richards, president of the Cuban Olympic Committee, to exchange views and strengthen work relationships.

The Cuban delegation of 10 judokas, three technicians and a doctor who participated last weekend in the Grand Slam in Paris will be joined by another two athletes and a coach, with a view to competing in three Grand Slams.

Spanish club Movistar’s women's team, one of the world’s best three, announced that it will be soon joined by Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra, one of the most outstanding worldwide, who is currently training in Havana.

Cuban triple jumpers Leyanis Perez and Liadagmis Povea, as well as four-time 400-m world champion Roxana Gomez, will compete today in the World Athletics Indoor Tour – Bronze held in Mondeville, France.

Arkady Dvorkovich, president of the International Chess Federation arrived in Cuba on a working visit that will get him in contact with local chess programs and prospects.