Dayaris Mestre will be the first Cuban competing today, on the first day of the Judo Grand Prix of Almaty, Kazakhstan, seeking to improve her position in the Olympic ranking.
According to the website of the contest, Mestre (48 kilograms) will debut against the winner of the bout between Venezuelan Maria Guedes and Russian Maria Persidskaia.

Cuba will face Panama today in the semifinals of the 2016 CONCACAF Futsal Championship held at the BN Arena, in Hatillo, Costa Rica.

Cuban Alfredo Despaigne hit his seventh homer of the season in the Japanese Professional Baseball when his team, the Chiba Lotte Marines, lost 9-5 to the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

Cuba qualified to the coming Futsal World Cup to be held in September in the Colombian city of Cali, along Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama.

Coach Roger Machado will be the manager of the Cuban national team that will hold 18 games since next June 9 th against teams from the Canadian-American (Can-Am) Baseball League.

A trio of Cuban discus throwers will compete in the second stop of the IAAF Diamond League, strong athletics competition that will host the Chinese city of Shanghai on May 14th.

Cuba lost 6-0 (4-0) to Costa Rica on the second day of group B of the 2016 CONCACAF Futsal Championship which takes place on that nation and grants four tickets to the World Cup in Cali, Colombia, in September.

Cuba won no medals at the Judo Grand Slam in Baku, Azerbaijan, with the best performance for Idalis Ortiz, who finished seventh in the +78 kg division won by Japanese Kanae Yamabe.

The Cuba Domadores officially announced its advance to the final of the 6 th World Series of Boxing (WSB) when completing the sweep 10-0 over the Uzbekistan Tigers at Havana's Sports City Coliseum.

Returning to the Olympics 16 years later will be the goal of the Cuban women's basketball team that will seek in France, from June 13 to 19, the long-awaited ticket to the summer event of coming August in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

His Royal Highness Prince Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, president of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), praised the development of Cuban sport and appreciated the possibility of being on the island.

Hungarian Zoltan Almasi, Bulgarian Ivan Cheparinov and Ukrainian Yuri Krivoruchko will complete the roster of the Elite group of the Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament scheduled for Varadero from June 8 to 20.

The Cuba Domadores beat 5-0 Uzbekistan Tigers and now appears one win away from reaching the final of the 6th World Series of Boxing in contention ending today at the Sports City Coliseum in Havana.

The Cuban futsal squad, composed of 14 players, will leave today to Costa Rica, to attend the CONCACAF championship of the sport, scheduled from May 8 to 14 at the BN Arena, in Hatillo.

Cuban Dayaris Mestre, 48 kilograms, will debut today at the Grand Slam of Baku, Azerbaijan, event that will be attended by 449 judokas -280 men and 169 women from 76 countries.

Cuban Leslie Amat will take part tomorrow in the Triathlon World Cup of Huatulco, Mexico, which will award points to the Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, next August.