Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, London 2012 Olympic runner-up, finished today in eighth place, tied with four other rivals, in the final of that event in athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

With a spectacular finish by Lisneidy Veitía, the Cuban women's 4x400 meters relay qualified today to next Saturday's grand final in the athletics tournament of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Boxer Arlen Lopez won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, by dominating in the 81-kilogram (kg) division against British Benjamin Whittaker, a rival of greater scope and very elusive.

With a dissertation in the three distances, welterweight Roniel Iglesias beat Britain's Pat McCormack 5-0 this Tuesday and gave Cuba the first gold medal in boxing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 3 (ACN) Cubans Serguey Torres and Fernando Dayan Jorge, multiple World Cup medalists, were crowned Olympic champions on Monday in a hard-fought final, where they surpassed the Chinese over the finish line in the 1,000-meter tandem canoe (C2-1000) in Tokyo, Japan.

With pure thrust and a lethal off-balance, Greco-Roman wrestler Mijaín López (130 kgs) defeated Georgian Iakobi Kajaia 5-0 today and won the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Greco-Roman wrestler Luis Alberto Orta gave this Monday Cuba the first gold medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games underway in Japan.

London 2012 Olympic gold medalist Leurys Pupo went from strength to strength in the rapid fire pistol shooting at 25 meters from the target and was runner-up today in Tokyo, Japan, venue of the XXXII Modern Olympic Games.

Juan Miguel Echevarría and Maikel Massó, both 22, won silver and bronze medals today in the long jump at the Tokyo Olympics, where they dominated the competition till the last jump.

Congratulations champion. Cuba admires and loves you, wrote today the Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, after the Olympic triumph of Cuban judoka Idalys Ortiz.

Cuban Idalis Ortiz, Olympic and world champion in 78 kilograms (kg), won the silver medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after losing the final to Japanese Akira Sone.

Although the sadness of leaving their countries for different reasons is not easy to forget, the Olympic Games in Tokyo opened its arms to 29 refugees who will compete in 12 sports, conveying a message of solidarity and hope.

Cuban 78 kilogram (kg) judoka Kaliema Antomarchi lost her match in the discussion of the Olympic bronze against German Anna-Maria Wagner at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Cuban heavyweight Dainier Pero won 5-0 against Colombian Cristian Salcedo, and obtained Cuba's fifth victory in a row in the boxing tournament of the Olympic Games to be held in this city until July 8.

The Cuban 800 m runner Rose Mary Almanza and the high jumper Luis Enrique Zayas will be the first Cubans to debut in athletics at the Olympic Games.

Three-time world champion Lazaro Alvarez, as well as Pan American champion Laina Perez, will be Cuba's competitors today in the Olympic tournament in Tokyo, Japan.