Cuban GMs Yuri Gonzalez and Lazaro Bruzon ranked second and third in the Zonal 2.3 Chess Tournament that took place in El Salvador.

Cuban ballplayer Roel Santos made his debut in the Japanese Professional Baseball League of (NPB) with the Chiba Lotte Marines as pinch hitter in the seventh inning against the Hanshin Tigers.

Cuban ballplayer Alfredo Despaigne had one of his best performances this season in Japanese professional baseball (NPB) when hitting 3 for 4, with a home run and two RBIs, to tie in the leadership of both stats in the Pacific League.

Cuban athletes will attend important competitions this month, including the fourth stop of the Diamond League based in Rome, Italy, on June 8th.

After eight rounds, Cuban Yuri Gonzalez appeared on top of the standings of the Zonal 2.3 Chess Tournament, taking place in El Salvador, which grants two tickets to the world cup.

Based on current legal standards, the recruitment process of Cuban athletes abroad continues to rise, thus reaching 46 athletes in 11 countries.

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.