Russian Volodar Murzin and Danish Jonas Buhl-Bjerre will face each other today as leaders of the Elite group in the Varadero 2025 International Capablanca in Memoriam Chess Tournament, which is now in its final stage.

Cuba will participate from today until Sunday in the Sprint Canoe World Cup in Szeged, Hungary, with its four main athletes of this modality, led by Yurisleidis Cirilo Dubois, bronze medalist at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.

Cuba concluded its debut at the Beach Wrestling World Series in Monterrey, Mexico (May 13–14) with three gold medals and one silver, securing third place in both men’s and women’s team rankings.

Russian Grandmaster Volodar Murzin leads the Elite group of the Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament in Varadero with 3 points after defeating Cuba’s Carlos Daniel Albornoz.

Cuban Ineymig Hernandez has become one of the focal points to follow in the Open group of the Varadero 2025 International Capablanca in Memoriam Chess Tournament.

Cuban closer Raidel Martinez shined again today in Japan by adding his eleventh save of the season, securing a 6-4 victory for the Yomiuri Giants against the Hanshin Tigers.

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.