Cuban sprinter Omara Durand, winner of five Paralympic titles, will make her debut today at the Tokyo Games in the first round of the 400 m in athletics, category T12 (profound visual impairment).

In the first performances of the Cuban delegation at the 16th Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, weightlifter Leydi Rodriguez Rodriguez finished without a valid exercise and table-tennis player Yunier Fernandez lost in his debut in preliminaries.

Cuba will be opposite Argentina today in Pool D of the tournament hosted by Tehran, capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, until September 2.

Cuban triple jumper Liadagmis Povea, who finished fifth at the Tokyo Olympic Games, will be the only Cuban representative to see action today at the 2021 Wanda Diamond League held in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Cuban triple jumper Liadagmis Povea, who finished fifth in Tokyo, will be the only Cuban representative at the 10th stop of the 2021 Wanda Diamond League of athletics, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Damian Lopez (cycling), Yunier Fernandez (table tennis) and Leidy Rodriguez (weightlifting) will be the first Cubans to participate in the 26th Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, which gather 4,400 competitors from 160 countries.

The 11th Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Games will be inaugurated today at the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, where Cuba will debut on Wednesday with cyclist Damian Lopez, weightlifter Leidy Rodriguez and tennis player Yunier Fernandez.

The Cuban men's volleyball team finished on Monday in fourth place in the North, Central America and Caribbean Continental Championship (Norceca), after losing 1-3 in the bronze medal match against Mexico, held at the Auditorio del Pueblo in the city of Durango.

Cuba will dispute today the bronze medal against Mexico, after losing 1-3 in a duel of unbeaten teams against Puerto Rico in the semifinals of the men’s NORCECA Volleyball Continental Championship held in the Mexican city of Durango.

Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is in Japan to attend the opening ceremony of the 16th Paralympic Games, to be held this Tuesday at the new Olympic stadium in Tokyo.

The Cuban delegation was officially registered Wednesday for the 16th Paralympic Games scheduled to start on August 24 in this Japanese city.

Javelin thrower Yiselena Ballar, shot-putter Juan Carley Vázquez and sprinter Shainer Rengifo will give Cuba a shot at medals today at the 18th World Youth Athletics Championships in Nairobi, Kenya.

 The Cuban men's volleyball team defeated the Dominican Republic 3-1 on Wednesday in the first day of the NORCECA continental championship held in Durango, Mexico.

Cuba will face the Dominican Republic today in the first day of the men's NORCECA volleyball continental championship, to be held until next Monday in the Mexican city of Durango.

The Cubans Ronald Anthony Mencía (hammer throw) and Shainer Rengifo (100 meters) will debut today at the opening of the 18th World Athletics U20 Championships, held in Nairobi, Kenya, until the 22nd.

Cuba will have five representatives at the 18th World Athletics U20 Championships, to be held between 18-22 August in Nairobi, Kenya.