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.

Matanzas continues unstoppable on the 56th edition of the Cuban baseball championship when extending to 18 its chain of consecutive wins with the 7-2 victory over Industriales.

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.