Cuba will compete this weekend with five judokas in the IJF World Master St. Petersburg 2017, in Russia, tournament that will be attended by the best 16 seats in the world ranking in each of the 14 divisions (women and men) and other athletes invited by the organizers.

Las Tunas batted 13 hits, including four doubles, and defeated away Pinar del Río 7-4 in the closing match of the eleven subseries of the second stage of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

Pole vaulter Yarisley Silva and boxer Julio César La Cruz were chosen as best athletes of individual sports in Cuba in 2017, in women´s and men´s categories respectively, in a meeting that took place at Havana´s Sports City Coliseum.

Oscar Pino, bronze medalist in the Paris 2017 World Championships, was chosen as the best Cuban wrestler this year.

The two double-header programs played on Sunday between Pinar del Río-Las Tunas and Matanzas-Industriales ended up both in honors division, so the standings of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series didn´t change.

The best of Cuban sport during 2017 will be known today in a meeting to take place at Havana Sports City Coliseum, after the sum of the votes of the National Institute of Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym) and the press, in the senior and junior categories.

Cuba was included in a very tough group in the FIVB 2018 Volleyball Women´s World Championship, to take place in Japan, from September 29 to October 20.

Cuban Lisandra Ordaz was invited to the FIDE 2017 King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from next December 26 to 30.

Cuban outside hitter Miguel Angel Lopez appears third among top scorers and leads in service in the Argentine Volleyball League, in which he plays for the Gigantes del Sur club along with his compatriot and setter Adrian Goide.

Supported once again in a powerful offensive of 15 hits, Las Tunas beat 11-4 Industriales on Wednesday, thus becoming the first team to reach 50 victories in the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

The leader Las Tunas scored twice on top of the ninth inning to beat away 4-3 Industriales, in the beginning of the eleven subseries of the second stage of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

Japanese Morinari Watanabe, president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG by its French acronym), will tour today centers of scientific interest for Cuban sports.

With its powerful offensive as main weapon, the leader Las Tunas will visit today Industriales, third in the standings, in the beginning of the eleventh subseries of the second phase of the 57 th Cuban National Baseball Series.

The current monarch of Granma scored twice in the bottom of the ninth frame, without batting hits, and walked off 6-5 the leader Las Tunas, in the end of the tenth subseries of the second stage of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.

Cuba lost 7-10 to the Dominican Republic in the final hexagonal of the Pan American U23 Baseball Championship taking place in Panama, and no longer has opportunity to get one of the four tickets this contest grants to next year´s World Cup.

Puerto Rico beat Cuba in the second game of the 1st round, group C, of the FIBA Men´s Basketball 2019 World Cup Americas Qualifiers.