Cuba reached an easy 3-0 (25-12, 25-11, 25-12) victory over Nicaragua at the start of the U-19 Boys´ Volleyball Pan Am Cup based in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, which awards the last two tickets to the age-group FIVB World Championship to be played in Tunisia from next August 21 to 30.

Cuba will debut today with six athletes on the first day of the 2019 Pan American Judo Championships in Lima, Peru, to be attended by 215 judokas from 28 countries, in search of points for the continental and Olympic rankings.

The Pan Am Badminton Championship starts today with the presence of four Cuban athlets, two women and an equal number of men, in Aguascalientes, Mexico, tournament that will run until next Sunday.

The third edition of the Men´s U19 Pan-American Volleyball Cup begins today in the Dominican Republic with the participation of seven nations of this continent.

Woman Ludia Montero and men Otto Oñate and Arley Calderon will debut today representing Cuba in the Pan-American Weightlifting Championship, tournament that will grant points for the ranking of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

The batting of Cuban Alfredo Despaigne contributed today to the 3-1 away win of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks over the Orix Buffaloes, in the Pacific zone of the Nippon Professional Baseball League (NPB).
The Cuban slugger batted 2 for 4 to add his fourth straight game with at least one hit and batted in one run, his seventh of the season.

Cuba won no title in the freestyle event of the 2019 Senior Pan-American Wrestling Championships that concluded last Sunday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the Caribbean nation had a harvest of five gold medals.

The Cuban duos of Leila Martinez-Mailen Delis and Sergio Gonzalez-Luis Enrique Reyes won gold and bronze medals, respectively, at the first stop of the NORCECA 2019 Beach Volleyball Tour held in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

The former basketball player Ruperto Herrera will become next June the eleventh Cuban owner of the Olympic Order, highest distinction given by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Just a few days ago, the letter from Tomas Bach, head of IOC, confirming the agreement taken by the executive committee was received in Havana.

The Barranquilla 2018 Central American and Caribbean monarchs Andy Pereira and Jorge Moises Campo will represent Cuba in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championship, based in the Hungarian city of Budapest, between April 21 to 28.

A strong team in the men´s freestyle event led by world champion Yowlys Bonne will take Cuba to the 2019 Pan-American Wrestling Championship, which will host Buenos Aires, Argentina, from next April 18-21.
Bonne (61 kg) will be one of the seven Cuban athletes that will be present in the continental contest, which will be attended by wrestlers of good level from countries with tradition in that sport such as the United States, Canada and Venezuela.

Cuba beat 37-36 United States in the final of the 1st IHF Men's U24 North American and the Caribbean (NAC) Emerging Nations Handball Championship, based in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic.

With the titles of Rafael Alba and Jose Angel Cobas, along with the silver medal of Glenhis Hernandez, Cuba ranked third in the 2019 Mexico Taekwondo Open.

The Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) learned that the United States Government decided to cancel the implementation of the Agreement with the Major League Baseball (MLB) signed 4 months ago.

Cubans Arlenis Sierra and Heidy Praderas will race for the Astana Women's Team in the Tour of Flanders, sixth stop of the 2019 UCI World Tour, which next Sunday will be attended by 24 elite squads and will cover 159 km, including 16 mountainous stretches.

Two Cubans lost in their debut today on the 2019 IJF Antalya Judo Grand Prix, in Turkey, which awards points for the world ranking and is attended by 485 athletes from 75 countries.