Outstanding Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler Mijain Lopez, four-time Olympic Champ, won the prize to the Best Male Latin American Athlete in the 57th edition of the traditional sports survey by Prensa Latina news agency.

Canoeing closed 2021 with outstanding performances at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Copenhagen World Championships and the Junior Pan American Games in Cali, enough to rank among Cuba's best sports.

Cubans Elisbet Gamez, Andrea Becali, Luis Vega and Adrian Navarro competed today in the first day of the 15th World Short Course Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, an event in 25-meter pool, until December 21.

Cuba studied a total of 13,465 samples for the detection of new cases of COVID 19, resulting in 58 positive. The country accumulates 11, 359,618 samples taken and 963,751 positive.

Elisbet Gamez, Luis Vega and Adrian Navarro will participate for Cuba in the first day of the 15th Short Course Swimming World Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, host of the tournament in 25-meter pool, December 16-21.

With a good sporting potential in many of its players, there is optimism in Cuban handball for the near future in search of better international results.

The Cuban Olympic Committee (COC) regretted today the boycott to the Winter Olympics based in Beijing, China, next year, for strictly political reasons that have nothing to do with the sport.

Raul Fornes Valenciano, first vice president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), received David Zobda, mayor of the city Lamentin of Martinique, to hold a meeting in which they agreed to increase cooperation between the two countries in the field of sports.

With an outstanding performance totaling 18 medals, including nine gold ones, Cuban athletics shone at the First Junior Pan American Games, Cali 2021, which concluded on Sunday.

Cuban wrestlers have thus far taken eight gold medals at the First Pan-Am Junior Games in Cali, Colombia after Milaimys Marin and Osmany Diversent garnered two gold medals on Friday.

Cubans Merelis Gonzalez and Rayma Ortiz finished today in fifth place in the final A of the coxless double (2-) of the rowing tournament at the First Junior Pan American Games of Cali 2021, held at Lake Calima El Darien-Valley.

With another great pitching performance by left-hander Naykel Cruz and excellent batting productivity, the Cuban baseball team defeated Venezuela 9-1 and won the bronze medal at the First Junior Pan American Games, held at the Edgar Renteria stadium in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Thursday found Cuba anchored in the fifth place of the medal table of the First Junior Pan American Games Cali 2021 after boxing, wrestling, athletics and table tennis won 10 gold, two silver and two bronze medals Wednesday.

The Cuban Greco-Roman wrestlers will go into action today in the First Junior Pan American Games held in Cali, Colombia.

Cuba still ranks sixth on the medal table of the First Junior Pan American Games Cali 2021 after winning a gold and a silver medal in athletics Tuesday.