Ciego de Avila achieved their 40th victory in the Cuban National Baseball Series after beating away 2-1 Holguin at Calixto Garcia stadium.

Featherweight Alexei Rodriguez beat Egyptian Omar Elsayed Ragab in Cuba´s debut at the World Junior Boxing Championship staged at the Russian city of St. Petersburg.

With a first day devoted to the topic of leadership in the team, the campus that the Real Madrid Foundation offers for a week to Cuban children and coaches began today in this city.

Cuban cyclist Marlies Mejías, who run invited for the Weber Shimano Ladies Power, won the points classification and the intermediate sprints events of the first edition of the Colombia Women's Tour with 55 and 47 units respectively.

The recent performance of Cuban players in the Can-Am League prompted representatives of teams from that nation to request the presence of several of them for the coming season, it was reported at a meeting of the Cuban National Baseball Federation (FCB by its Spanish acronym).

Cuban Leinier Domínguez lost to Russia's Dmitry Andreikin and saw his team, Mednyi Vsadnik, to descend to the third seat of the 32nd European Chess Club Cup taking place in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Cuban Marlies Mejías finished 19th in the first of the five stages of the Colombia Tour, contest that will have a total of 335 kilometers and will be attended by more than 100 cyclists.

Cuban basketball will count with the support of FIBA (French acronym for the International Basketball Federation), said José Luis Sáez, member of FIBA Executive Committee, in the last activity of his visit to this city.

Cuban Reineris Salas will leave tonight for Minsk, Belarus, to attend 1st Pahlavani wrestling world championship which starts on November 12th in that European nation.

Cuban GM Leinier Domínguez kept his pace and contributed with half a unit to the triumph of the Mednyi Vsadnik over the SV Werder Brenen at the 32nd European Chess Club Cup, in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Cuban cyclist Marlies Mejías will participate in the first edition of the Colombia Tour, invited by the Weber Shimano Ladies Power, club of which she will be officially part from next January.

Matanzas was unable to extend its winning streak of 19 consecutive games in the 56th National Baseball Series when losing to Holguín, result with which both teams matched their particular series played at Victoria de Girón stadium.

The best Cuban triathletes will attend on November 13th the Santo Domingo International tournament, in the Dominican Republic, where they will also conduct a training base.

The 1st Moncada Heroes National Boxing Cup runs until next Sunday at Alejandro Urgellés Multipurpose Hall, in the city of Santiago de Cuba, with the presence of 62 athletes.

Ciego de Ávila, current champion, and Matanzas, best team of the season, swept Holguin and Camagüey respectively, while Granma won two games and lost one over Villa Clara in the first subseries of the second stage of the 56th National Baseball Championship.

Several officials of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA by its French acronym) will arrive next Sunday in this city, with the objective of completing a program of exchanges with Cuban sports authorities.