Yarisley Silva will be the "spearhead" of the Cuban team in the World Indoor Athletics Championships, contest that will be attended by more than 600 athletes from 144 countries in the English city of Birmingham, starting next Thursday.

Cuba will face Mexico today at Havana´s Sports City Coliseum on the fourth matchday of the 2019 FIBA Men´s World Cup qualifying tournament.

Cuba defeated 6-3 Nicaragua in the third and final game of the friendly match between both teams at Dennis Martinez Stadium, in Managua.

Contrary to what happened when they visited Havana, the now host Uzbekistan Tigers will use all their major weapons to face next Tuesday the Cuba Domadores in the 3rd match of the 8th World Boxing Series (WSB).

Righthander Lazaro Blanco was announced by manager Carlos Marti as starting pitcher of the first game that Cuba will hold against its Nicaraguan counterpart, at Dennis Martinez stadium, in the city of Managua.

Cuba will face away USA tomorrow on the third matchday of the China 2019 FIBA Men's Basketball World Cup Americas qualifiers.

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.