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June Sunday

Cuban Yoandys Lescay made headlines in the Rio 2016 Ibero-American Athletics Championships when beating in the men's 400m final the Olympic runner-up Luguelín Santos in a day where the Cuban men's 4x100 relay scored 38.44 seconds in semifinals and virtually qualified to the Olympics.

Idalis Ortiz placed Cuba in third seat of the standings in the Judo Grand Prix of Almaty, Kazakhstan, after beating 2-1 Turkish Kayra Sayit, in the more than 78 kilograms division.

In an interesting game that went to overtime, Cuba lost 5-6 to Panama, in one of the semifinals of the 2016 CONCACAF Futsal Championship tournament in Costa Rica.

The Award Gala of the 55th Cuban National Baseball Series was held tonight in Ciego de Avila, province that won for the second consecutive year the crown in the most popular sport of the country.

Yoandry Iriarte, only Cuban fencer qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, will compete in the Grand Prix of Moscow, Russia, from May 27 to 28, with the intention of improving positions in the world ranking.

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

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.

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