Cuban Andy Pereira won four of the five preliminary games he played in the first day of the World Table Tennis Championships in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Cuba is member of the International Organizing Committee of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students Sochi-2017, elected at the third international preparatory meeting, held from May 25 to 27 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

With an excellent performance by goalkeeper Danny Echevarria, the Cuban men´s U20 soccer team tied 1-1 to Japan in its debut for group A of the Toulon Tournament, in France.

Cuban Yuri Gonzalez appears as leader of the San Salvador Zonal 2.3 chess, tournament, which grants tickets to the World Cup, after accumulating 1.5 points on his two Sunday games.

Cubans Serguei Torres and Fernando D. Jorge ranked seventh in the men´s canoe (C-2) 500 meters in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary, in a race won by Russians Ivan Shtyl and Viktor Melantev.

The 37 preselected athletes for the Cuban team to attend the Can-Am Independent Baseball League will begin their training tomorrow in the Latinoamericano stadium of this city.

The current best Cuban canoeists, Serguei Torres and Fernando Dayan Jorge, will attend the 2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup I, to take place from May 19 to 21 in Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal.

Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra had an amazing performance in the 2017 Amgen Tour of California, United States, by finishing third in the women´s general individual classification.

Cuba won the bronze medal in the 4th edition of the Women´s U-20 Pan American Volleyball Cup when defeating Puerto Rico in a tournament in which the United States won the title and the World Cup ticket by the North, Central America and the Caribbean (NORCECA) area.

Cuban Alfredo Despaigne, who plays in the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB), hit his ninth homer of the season and drove in three runs to thus lead those two statistics on the Pacific circuit and help his team, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, to beat 7-0 the Orix Buffaloes.

Cuba will face United States today in the semifinals of the 4th Women´s U20 Pan American Volleyball Cup, which will conclude this Saturday at the National Gymnasium in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Cuban Osleni Guerrero, silver medalist in the Pan American Badminton Championship last April, climbed 54 seats and now appears 142nd in the world ranking.

Made up by 37 players, mostly young, the national pre-selection of the Cuban team that will participate in the Canadian-American Independent Baseball League (Can-Am) was announced in this city.

Cubans Denia Caballero and Yaime Perez will try to be among the medalists in the second stop of the Athletics Diamond League, to be held in Shanghai, China, on May 13.

Cuba defeated Chile in the first day of the fourth edition of the 2017 Women´s U20 Pan American Volleyball Cup, with a stage until next Saturday at the National Gymnasium of San Jose, Costa Rica.

A few days ago it was made official the hiring of several Cuban baseball players to play abroad.