Cuban slugger Alfredo Despaigne hit three homers in the 6-7 loss of his club, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, to the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in the preseason of the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB).

With eight scepters, Cuba won the boxing tournament held in Tijuana, Mexico, qualifiers to the Central American and Caribbean Games of Barranquilla, Colombia, next July.

Cuba won three crowns through their pairs in the 19th edition of the Giraldilla de la Habana International Badminton Tournament.

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 19 (acn) Cuba ranked second in the Pan-American Judo Open, in Lima, Peru, with three gold, one silver and three bronze medals, only surpassed by Brazil (4-2-6).
Cuba´s title winners were the women Olga Masferrer (70 kilos) and Maylin del Toro (63), and the man Osniel Solis (66), while the runner-up was the also woman Virgen Romero (78).

Jean Claude Sidibe, Mali´s Minister of Sports, and Habib Sissoko, President of the Olympic Committee of that African nation, began an official visit to Cuba to strengthen the historic ties of bilateral collaboration.

Seven Cubans will go in search of their ticket to the single semifinals today in the continuation of the 19th Giraldilla de la Habana international badminton tournament, which will conclude next Sunday 18.

American Jeffery Xiong won the 2018 Spring Chess Classic held in Saint Louis, USA, while Cuban Lazaro Bruzon ranked fifth.

The 19th edition of the international badminton tournament Giraldilla de La Habana, running until next Sunday 18, starts today in Havana with the presence of nine Cubans led by Osleni Guerrero.

Led by Asley Gonzalez, the 10 Cuban judokas who will participate on next March 17th and 18th in the Lima Open departed for Peru where they will continue their preparation towards the Barranquilla 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games.

The Cuban boxing team won two more tickets and its harvest arose to eight spots to the Central American and Caribbean Games, which will be held in Barranquilla, Colombia, from July 19 to August 3 next.

The Cuban National Baseball Directorate (DNB by its Spanish acronym) announced the rosters of the three teams that will participate in the Special Series, which will take place from next March 22 to June 3.

Cuban Lazaro Bruzon defeated Indian Surya Ganguly and climbed to fourth seat in the 2018 Spring Chess Classic taking place in Saint Louis, USA, which is still led by local Jeffery Xiong.

American Jeffery Xiong reached his third win in six games and appears as leader of the 2018 Spring Chess Classic, in Saint Louis, United States, where Cuban Lazaro Bruzon ranks eighth with 2.5 units.

Cuban Arlenis Sierra finished seventh in the Ronde Van Drenthe, in Holland, second event of the 2018 UCI Women's World Tour, thus consolidating herself as leader of the Kazakh club Astana Womens.

A mixture of youth and experience will make up the pre-selection baseball team on route to the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, said the National Baseball Commissioner Yovani Aragon Rodriguez.

Cubans Osleni Guerrero and Yeily Ortiz won the mixed double event of the 4th Badminton International Tournament of Jamaica by defeating 2-0 (22-20 and 21-15) their teammates Leodanis Martinez and Taymara Oropesa.