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.

With a gold and a bronze medal, Cuba shared the seventh place in the standings of the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships, which ended yesterday in Birmingham, Great Britain.

Everything is ready for the start today of the friendly baseball series between two Cuban teams (Western and Eastern) against the professional clubs of the Diablos Rojos and the Oaxaca Guerreros, belonging to the summer circuit of the Mexican League.

After three events, Cuban Yorgelis Rodriguez leads the pentathlon in the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships taking place in the English city of Birmingham.

The Uzbekistan Tigers defeated 4-1 the Cuba Domadores at Tashkent Sports Complex and thus broke the unbeaten status of the Caribbean side in Group A of the 8th World Series of Boxing (WSB).

Cuban pole vault star, Yarisley Silva and a group of 8 athletes will participate in the 17th World Indoor Athletics Championship to be held from March 1st to the 4 th in Birmingham, Britain.

Cuba lost to Mexico, thus achieving its fourth consecutive loss in the Americas qualifiers for the FIBA 2019 Men´s Basketball World Cup.