The Cuban U-17 men's soccer team won the ticket to the CONCACAF final round, to be held in Panama on April 2017, qualifier for the World Cup in India.

HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 20 (acn) Cubans Leinier Dominguez and Yuniesky Quesada will attend from today in the Spanish Team Championship (Honor Division) chess tournament, to take place in the community of Aragon.

Five Cuban volleyball players received jail sentences in Finland as the result of a close doors hearing that took place last August 31 for the crime of aggravated rape against a Finish woman.

Cuban baseball players Donal Duarte and Alexander Malleta won the title of the Canadian-American League (Can-Am) with the Ottawa Champions when beating the Rockland Boulders in the final.

Dalia Henry, vice president of the Cuban Basketball Federation, assessed as very important the tour the Cuban national men's team will make to China from October 12 to 30.

Made up by 20 players, the Cuban women's national basketball pre-selection began their training toward the Centrobasquet tournament, to be held next year in Puerto Rico.

The match between Matanzas, leader, and Holguin, third seat of the standings, stands out today in the continuation of the Cuban baseball championship in its 56th edition.

The teams of Matanzas, Ciego de Avila, Villa Clara and Guantánamo completed their sweeps over their respective rivals in the continuation of the Cuban baseball championship in its 56 th edition.

Sprinter Omara Durand headed Cuba's medal table in the 15th Paralympic Games, the closing ceremony of which took place yesterday in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.

Sea lovers will meet again in Cuban waters to revive the Blue Marlin International Fishing Tournament, absent for several years, which will highlight the Caribbean island as an attractive destination for recreational tourism.

After seeing broken its chain of 18 consecutive wins at the close of the last subseries against Industriales, Matanzas will try to return today to winning ways in the Cuban baseball championship when facing Santiago de Cuba.

In its last match of the group stage, Cuba will face today the powerful Russian team in the World Futsal Cup taking place in Medellin, Colombia.

Without any pressure and without "intending", Cuban Omara Durand won her qualifying heat of the women´s 400 meters-T12 event with world record of 50.90 seconds as preamble of should be her third gold medal in these 15th Paralympic Games.

Industriales broke Matanzas´ chain of 18 consecutive wins when beating them 6-5 in the continuation of the Cuban baseball championship in its 56th edition.

Cuban baseball player Alfredo Despaigne suffers a sprain on his left wrist, so he has not participated in the last four matches of his team, the Chiba Lotte Marines, in Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB).

Cuban sprinter Leinier Savón will seek today the gold medal in the men´s 100m-T12 event, in the eighth competitive day of the 15th Paralympic Games taking place in this Brazilian city.