Fourth place for Yerisbel Miranda and eighth for Maritza Arribas were the final placings for the Cubans in a Women's Continental Chess Championship of the Americas 2025, which closed on Tuesday in the Mexican city of Oaxtepec with the coronation of Argentina's Candela Belen Francisco.

The 3rd edition of the National Women's Boxing Championship 2025 kicks off today at the Rafael Fortun multi-purpose hall in the central-eastern city of Camaguey, with 43 women registered in six weight categories.

On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Russia, the embassy of the Eurasian country called on the Cuban people to participate in friendship race, to be held on May 10.

If we take into account the performance of the duo of Noslen Diaz and Jorge Luis Alayo at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the results in the World Beach Volleyball Pro Tour 2025, very few doubt that the disciples of Francisco Alvarez Cutiño will be among the great protagonists in the next event under the five rings of Los Angeles 2028.

Cuban Yerisbel Miranda won again and reached five points out of a possible six to place herself among the leaders of the Women's Continental Chess Championship of the Americas 2025, when only three rounds are left for the closing in the Mexican city of Oaxtepec.

The Cuban duo of Noslen Diaz-Jorge Luis Alayo won the gold medal on Sunday in undefeated quality, in the men's tournament of the first phase of the North, Central America and Caribbean Circuit (Norceca) Beach Volleyball 2025, in Varadero.

Cuban Anisley Garcia enjoyed with good results her first participation in the three-meter springboard in the Super Final of the Beijing 2025 Diving World Cup.

The first stop of the 2025 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour kicks off Thursday in Varadero with the participation of 18 men's and 15 women's teams from 14 countries.

Cuba finished on Sunday with the silver medal in the mixed team tournament of the 50th edition of the Pan American and Oceania Championships, losing in the final to the favorite Brazil, based in Santiago de Chile, with the participation of 91 athletes -50 men and 41 women- from five nations.

The Cuban Ernesto Fernandez suffered his only setback in the closing and dropped to the place in the Menorca Chess Open, although it was the best performance of a Cuban in a match won by the Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk.

Cuban Michel Alejandro Diaz is in 25th place with four points out of a possible five and is the best placed Cuban in the Menorca Chess Open, a competition that has the experienced Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk as the sole leader.

Cuba will debut today with nine of the 17 judokas who will participate in the individual tournament of the 50th edition of the Pan American and Oceania Championships that will conclude this Saturday in Santiago de Chile, with the presence of 206 athletes -112 men and 94 women- from 24 countries.

The 17 Cuban judokas who will participate in the 50th edition of the Pan American and Oceania Championships in Santiago de Chile 2025, finalize details of the preparation in the tatami of the Cerro Pelado High Performance Athletes Training Center, in Havana.

Cubans Jorge Roberto Elias and Yerisbel Miranda will face the third rounds of the Medellin 2025 Sub-Zonal 2.3.2 Chess Tournament today, away from the vanguard, which distributes a world championship place in each gender.

The 17 Cuban judo athletes who will participate at the Pan American and Oceania Championships in Santiago de Chile 2025, from April 25 to 27, are stepping up their preparation on the tatami of the Cerro Pelado High Performance Athletes Training Center, in Havana.

Leandro Civil Jarvis, an emblematic personality of Cuban athletics, died today in Havana at the age of 77, informed sports authorities of the archipelago.