Cuban basketball player Yoanki Mensia renewed his contract with the Argentine club Gimnasia y Esgrima, of Comodoro Rivadavia city, which belongs to the professional league of that country.

The Cuban National Sports, Physical Education and Recreation Institute announced on Thursday in Havana that all sports activities were suspended due to the powerful Hurricane Irma.

Cuba will face Mexico today on the final day of the group stage of the FIVB Men´s U23 World Championship, which takes place in Cairo, Egypt.

Cuban Oscar Pino, Greco-Roman style, won the bronze medal in the 130 kilogram division during the second competitive day of the World Wrestling Championship running in Paris, France, until August 26.

Cuban Alfredo Despaigne, who plays for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB), has been on fire after hitting six home runs in the current month and now totals 28 in the season, amount never before achieved by him.

Cuba will attend the 2017 World Wrestling Championships starting today in Paris, France, with 10 athletes (five in each modality).

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 21 (acn) The squad of Havana, reinforced with players from other Cuban provinces, will face Mexico´s Sidekicks when debuting in the second CONCACAF Futsal Club Championship, based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Cuba beat Japan on the third day of the 2017 FIVB Men's U23 World Championship, thus achieving their second win in Group A of the tournament based in Cairo, Egypt.

Briton Lewis Hamilton, three-time Formula One world champion, is in Cuba as ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

The manager of the Industriales baseball team said that there is nothing wrong with their pitching, it the offense that is not working. Mesa made the statement after winning the third game against Santiago de Cuba at the Guillermon Moncada Stadium in that eastern city.

In another sensational game, Santiago de Cuba defeated Industriales 4 to 3 winning the second of a three game series at the Guillermon Moncada Stadium in the eastern city.

Cuba will attend the 2017 World Boxing Championships to run from next August 25 to September 2nd in Hamburg, Germany.

Venezuela broke Cuba's three-game winning streak in the 3rd U15 Pan American Baseball Championship, based in Cartagena, Colombia.

With 35 units, Cuba ranked 14th in the IAAF World Championships London 2017, where the Caribbean island only won one bronze medal.

The match Industriales-Santiago de Cuba, at Guillermon Moncada stadium, will undoubtedly meet the highest expectations at the start of the third subseries of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

Cuban discus throwers Denia Caballero and Yaime Perez qualified on Friday to the finals of the modality and will go for medals on Sunday during the final day of the World Athletics Championship in London.