After good performances in semifinals, Cuban baseball players Donal Duarte Hernandez and Alexander Malleta Kerr will participate in the final of the Canadian-American League (Can-Am) with their team, the Ottawa Champions, against the Rockland Boulders.

Cuba lost 5-8 to Thailand in group B and said goodbye to the World Futsal Cup, staged at Medellin, Colombia.

The swimmer Lorenzo Perez won the sixth bronze medal for Cuba in the 15th Paralympic Games, held in this city, but he still has an opportunity to get a crown for the first at this level.

Cuban Yunidis Castillo, five-time Paralympic gold medalist in speed events and current runner-up in long jump, cannot continue competing due to the injury suffered in the thigh of her left leg during the final of the women´s 100 meters F-47 race of the 15th Paralympic Games.

Matanzas kept its unstoppable pace and added its 17th victory in line when beating Industriales 6-5 in the continuation of the Cuban baseball championship.

Cuban women´s and men´s teams ranked 18th and 25th in the just concluded 42nd Chess Olympiad held at Baku, capital of Azerbaijan.

Cuban Leinier Dominguez won the silver medal in the first board of the World Chess Olympiad Baku 2016.

Cuban pitcher Joel Suarez gets his throwing arm ready for the second phase of the 56th National Baseball Series, after a period of inactivity due to surgery known as Tommy John he underwent on his right elbow.

In a game of life or death for both teams, Cuba will face Thailand today in their second match of Group B in the World Futsal Championship based in Medellin, Colombia.

Cuba could not change the expected script on Saturday and lost vs. current African runner-up, Egypt, 7-1, in its debut in group B of the World Futsal Cup, which has the Colombian city of Medellin as its venue.

Cuban Leinier Dominguez beat former world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov, but that victory was not enough for his team to equal Uzbekistan in the World Chess Olympiad under way in the city of Baku.

A bronze medal by Noralvis De Las Heras, a record by Omara Durand and the injury suffered by athlete Yunidis Castillo marked the island's performance on Sunday at the 15th Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

With a Paralympic record of 23.05 seconds, Cuban sprinter Omara Durand won the gold medal in the women's 200m T-12 event, her second title in the Rio 2016 Paralympics.

Cuba obtained on Friday its first two titles at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, with the triumphs of sprinter Omara Durand and judoka Dalidaivis Rodríguez.

Cuban sprinter Yunidis Castillo won a silver medal on Thursday in long jump in the 15th Paralympic Games, with 5.59 meters.

Cuban sprinter Omara Durand set a Paralympic record in the women´s T12 100m in the qualifying heats of the athletics tournament corresponding to the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Paralympic Games.