Cuba won yesterday one gold and one silver medal thus finishing its outstanding performance in the 2019 Special Olympics Summer World Games, which closing ceremony will be today in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Cuban Roberto Luis Fernandez contributed a couple of medals to the Cuban delegation attending the 2019 Special Olympics Summer World Games, based in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Cuban Yoandy Beltran won last Sunday a bronze medal in the men´s squat event of powerlifting of the 2019 Special Olympics Summer World Games, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where the also powerlifter, but woman, Yaritza Parrado won two gold and same amount of silver medals last Friday, first Cuban medals in this major competition.

Rey Vicente Anglada, manager of the Cuban national baseball team, will start the training today of the 63 summoned players at Havana´s Latinoamericano stadium.

Cuba finished fifth in the 2019 Freestyle Wrestling World Cup held in the Russian region of Yakutsk that was won by the local side.

The experienced manager Rey Vicente Anglada was appointed by the National Baseball Directorate to head the Cuban team that will participate in the baseball tournaments of the Pan American Games, in Lima, and the WBSC Premier 12, to take place this year both.

Cuba won the two crowns of the individual events in the 5th Yucatan Table Tennis Open, held in Mexico, which was attended by 150 players from 10 countries, including several well-ranked athletes.

World runner-up Arisnoides Despaigne (69 kg) heads the Cuban team of nine boxers who will attend the 2019 Chemistry Cup in Halle, Germany, scheduled from April 9-13 next.

Cuban long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarria made a phenomenal leap of 8.92 meters in the final of the 2019 Cuba Athletics Cup last Sunday at Havana´s Pan-American Stadium.

The Cuban national senior champions in the last two years, Carlos Albornoz and Yuri Gonzalez, will be the only local players in the Elite group of the Capablanca Memorial Chess Championship, to be held from next May 2-13 at Habana Libre Hotel, this time with the attraction of featuring the global ace Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk among the attendees.

Undoubtedly, Cuban children will categorically benefit from the signing yesterday of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Little League Baseball Incorporated (LLBI) and the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB).

Without risking too much, Cuban IM Carlos Albornoz signed peace with local GM Noel Studer during the eighth and penultimate round of the Accentus Young Masters 2019 chess tournament, which takes place in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.

The State Council, at the proposal of its President Miguel Diaz-Canel, agreed to remove Antonio Eduardo Becali Garrido from the position of President of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), in response to deficiencies in his work.

The Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB by its Spanish acronym) and the Little League Baseball International (LLBI) signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will allow the participation of Cuba in the Caribbean events and the World Series of that organization.

Cuban IM Carlos Albonoz was handed his first loss in the Accentus Young Masters 2019 chess tournament running in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, where local GM Noel Studer remains as solo leader after seven rounds.

Cuban IM Carlos Albornoz will face today German IM Lev Yankelevich during the seventh round of the Accentus Young Masters 2019, running in the Swiss city of Bad Ragaz, where local GM Noel Studer appears as solo leader.