The six Cuban judokas who will participate from next February 23 to 25 in the Grand Slam of Dusseldorf will depart today towards that German city led by Kaliema Antomarchi, world bronze medalist in Budapest 2017.

Juan Carlos Obregon, Ermes Espinosa and Isan Ortiz won the three medals for Cuba in the 2018 Valladolid Open Chess Tournament held in the Mexican city of Mazatlan.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 16 (ACN) Cuban athlete Daniela Ciara Vega will compete this weekend in Barbados in the Central American and Caribbean Triathlon Championship.

Cuban Cristian Napoles won the gold medal in the men´s triple jump event of the Copernicus Cup, based in Torun, Poland, fifth stop of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour.

Three Cubans won medals in European-based competitions as part of their training ahead of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships to be held from March 1 to 4 in the English city of Birmingham.

Six Cubans appear among the 546 judokas from 72 countries that will compete in the Grand Slam of Dusseldorf, Germany, scheduled for next February 23 to 25.

Cuban baseball player Yurisbel Gracial signed on Monday in Havana a contract to play with the SoftBank Baseball Team from the Japanese League next season. This is the first time that the team selects four foreign players from a same country.

Cubans Roger Valentin Iribarne and Juan Miguel Echevarria had amazing performances in the 2018 Metz Indoor Meeting.

Havana´s Yuri Gonzalez won the Cuban Men´s National Chess Championship for the first time last Sunday.

The Aguilas Cibaeñas, from the DR, beat 7-4 Granma, Cuban representative, thus advancing to the final of the 2018 Caribbean Baseball Series, where they will face Puerto Rico´s Caguas Criollos.

The Alazanes of Granma defeated on Tuesday the Criollos of Caguas from Puerto Rico in the last game of the preliminary stage of the Caribbean Baseball Series held in the Mexican city of Jalisco.

Cuba lost their undefeated status in the 2018 Caribbean Baseball Series when losing 1-7 to the Aguilas Cibaeñas, from the DR, at the Pan American Stadium of the Mexican city of Jalisco, Guadalajara, where today they will face the Puerto Rican team of the Caguas Criollos.

Today will be a crucial day in the eighth round of the Cuban National Women´s Chess Tournament as Lisandra Llaudy, current leader, will face her closest pursuer, Yaniet Marrero.

Carlos Marti, manager of Granma, Cuban representative in the Caribbean Baseball Series 2018, announced his starting squad for the inaugural game of the tournament, scheduled for 2:00 pm Eastern Time today.

The Alazanes from Granma, National Baseball Champions, are training in the Latin American Stadium in Havana with the objective of preparing the team for the upcoming Caribbean Series to be held from February 2nd to the 8th.

Granma defeated 11-5 Las Tunas in the fifth game of the grand final of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series.