Cuban Henry Jaen won for the fifth time, second in a row, the marathon event of the Marabana Marathon Race, while his countryman Richer Perez became champion for 7th consecutive year of the half marathon event in this same contest taking place each November in the Cuban capital.

Puerto Rican Victor Lopez, president of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC), attended the 31st edition of Marabana, Cuba's main marathon race that was attended by more than five thousand runners.

The powerful lineup of the leader Las Tunas amounted 12 hits, including four doubles, when defeating Pinar del Río 8-3 and remains as leader of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

The President of the Cuban Parliament and member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party, Esteban Lazo Hernandez exchanged on Thursday in the city of Bayamo with baseball star Alfredo Despaigne who finished the season with an excellent performance in the Japanese Professional League.

2B Jorge Aloma hit a decisive home run in the 6-5 win of his team, Artemisa, over Industriales in the second stage of the Cuban National Baseball Series.

Carlos Benitez, who plays for Granma in the Cuban National Baseball Series, amounts six grand slams so far this season and only has to hit one more to match the record set by OF Alexei Bell in the 2009-10 campaign.

Cuban Alberto Puig de la Barca, member of the AIBA Executive Committee and head of the Cuban Boxing Federation (FCB by its Spanish acronym), was appointed chairman of the Commission of the World Series of Boxing (WSB), which eighth edition will begin next January.

The 31st Edition of Marabana 2017 is scheduled to be held on November 19th in Havana with the participation of over 4 thousand 200 runners.

A squad of eight Cuban boxers will leave tomorrow for Europe, where they will hold a profitable tour in which they will face several of their best rivals of that continent.

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 7 (acn) Undoubtedly, the game between the runner-up, Industriales, and the third seat, Matanzas, at Victoria de Giron Park, will meet today the highest expectations at the start of the fourth subseries, in the second stage of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

Cuba won 16 medals and an equal number of tickets for the Central American and Caribbean Games of Barranquilla 2018, in the judo qualifying tournament, based at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic .

Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez will attend the 2017 Champions Showdown, tournament that includes eight elite star players from November 9 to 14 and hosted by the St. Louis Chess Club in United States.

After six rounds, Cuban GMs Lazaro Bruzon (2660 Elo points) and Yuniesky Quesada (2619) appear among the leaders of the Spice Cup Open 2017 taking place in the American city of Saint Louis.

The five Cubans attending the 8th Santo Domingo Badminton Open debut today in the contest that will run until next Friday at Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, in the Dominican Republic's capital.

Orientales showed a timelier batting and defeated 6-4 Occidentales in the All-Star Game of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series that took place yesterday at Capitan San Luis Stadium of this city.

While watching the All-Star Game of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series, Kazuhiro Hisata, a retired Japanese player, recalled the 1990s when he was a teammate of Cuban ballplayers on Asian soil.