The light flyweight Joahnys Argilagos took revenge against Mexican Joselito Velazquez to provide the first of the seven belts with which Cuba led the continental boxing tournament staged in Venezuela.

Cubans Dayaris Mestre (48 kg) and Yandry Torres (60) will compete today in the first day of the World Judo Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, which is attended by 729 representatives from 120 countries.

Cuba had a perfect day by reaching five seats from possible five in the first quarterfinal date of the world cup qualifying boxing tournament based in the Venezuelan state of Vargas.

Getting three or four medals is a possible aspiration for Cuban athletics that will definitely participate with 25 competitors in the 15th World Championship, which starts next Saturday in this city.

Heriberto Suarez, director of baseball at the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym), announced in this city, that from next year the structure of the Cuban national series will be changed.

Cuban Alberto Juantorena said he was a product of his country, people and Revolution when commenting about his election as Vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)

The Eddy Martin in Memoriam Baseball Cup will run from today and until next day 22 in Ciego de Ávila, as a prelude to the 55th National Baseball Series, which begins on August 29th.

Cuban U-23 football team will face Jamaica today in the final phase of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) at Silvio Cator stadium in Port au Prince, Haiti's capital.

A world record by Omara Durand, among other outstanding performances in athletics, and silver medals by Raciel Gonzalez and Lorenzo Perez completed Cuba's third day of action in these 5th Parapan Am Games.

Cuban Elisbet Gamez will have today her second appearance in the Water Sports World Championship, based in the Russian city of Kazan, in the preliminary round of the women's 200m backstroke.

Cuba finished fourth in the U-12 World Baseball Championship, based in Taipei of China, by losing 2-0 to Nicaragua in the bronze medal match.

Made up by 96 people, the Cuban delegation to the 5th Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games will depart today from Jose Marti International Airport.

Jose Ramon Fernandez, president of the Cuban Olympic Committee (COC), welcomed on Monday the last batch of athletes from the island, participants in the 17th Toronto 2015 Pan American Games.

The Cuban delegation won on Saturday five gold medals, four silver medals and one bronze medal, to close its performance in the 17th Pan-American Games in Toronto, Canada.

Cuban runner Richer Perez won on Saturday the gold medal in the men's marathon competition of the 17th Pan-American Games in Toronto, Canada, which will end on Sunday.

Cuba appeared fourth on the medal table on Friday in the 17th Toronto 2015 Pan-American Games in Canada, thanks to the title achieved by Yarisley Silva in women's pole vault, the only medal won by the Caribbean nation that day.