The bout between the twice Olympic champion Robeisy Ramirez (56 kg) and Yoel Finol, Rio 2016 Olympics bronze medalist, will be the best of today´s match in the 8th World Series of Boxing (WSB), in which the Cuba Domadores will face the Venezuela Caciques.

Russian Alexei Dreev will be the major attraction in the Elite Group of the Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament to take place in Havana from May 8-20 next.

Eight Cuban baseball players will sign their contracts next Friday to professionally play in the Italian Baseball League (IBL).

Cubans Alfredo Despaigne and Livan Moinelo maintained their good performance in the preseason of the Japanese Professional Baseball (NPB), although their team, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, lost 3-4 to the Chunichi Dragons.

The Cuban national soccer team will depart today towards Managua, Nicaragua, to hold two friendly matches on March 22 and 24 against its local counterpart.

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.