The match Pinar del Río-Industriales monopolizes interest today of the Cuban baseball championship, with 18 days for the definition of teams qualified for the postseason.

After the eighth round of the Tbilisi Chess Grand Prix the Cuban Leinier Domínguez appears tied in seats 4 to 8 of the standings, led by Russian Evgeny Tomashevsky.

Industriales returned to winning path in Cuban baseball championship by beating Artemisa 9-1 to avoid the sweep and retain the third seat in the standings, four games behind the leaders Matanzas and Granma.

The current monarch Pinar del Río suffered a hard blow in the bloody struggle for accessing to Cuban baseball playoffs when defeated twice on Sunday by Isla de la Juventud, and now appears at two games of the qualifying zone.

Cuba and Japan U-23 men's volleyball teams held a friendly match on November 19 multipurpose room in Pinar del Rio city, as part of the preparation of both squads.

Artemisa´s José Mojica was crowned champion of Guantánamo-Havana cycling tour with time of 32: 53.32 hours, after finishing the stage 12th of 126 km between Matanzas and Havana.

Lisandra Guerra won Cuba's only medal at the World Track Cycling Championships in Paris when finishing third in the keirin event.

The judoka Aliuska Ojeda, 57 kilograms , is the only representative of Cuba on the first day of the Dusseldorf Grand Prix, in Germany, an event that grants points for the world ranking.

After nine stages, Artemisa´s José Mojica remains as leader of the general classification of Guantánamo-Havana cycling tour, with time of 24: 46.19 hours.

Matanzas beat 5-3 Ciego de Ávila remaining thus on top of Cuban baseball championship with 42 win s and 24 losses.

Capturing beautiful seabed images of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula will be the challenge of those competing in the International Underwater Photography Contest, Imasub 2015, scheduled for June 8-13.

Granma appears today at only one game of the top of Cuban baseball championship, when combining its win over Holguin and the second consecutive loss of the leader Matanzas in Ciego de Avila.

Cuban Lisandra Guerra will debut today in the women's 500m time trial event, during the second competitive day of the World Track Cycling Championships, based in Paris, capital of France.

Pinar del Rio lost yesterday its game against Artemisa, while Ciego de Avila and Isla de la Juventud won, leaving the defending champion momentarily out of the group of four teams to qualify to the Cuban Serie Nacional postseason

Cuban Leinier Domínguez could not convert in triumph the achieved advantage in the game and drew with Russian Peter Svidler in the Tbilisi Chess Grand Prix, in Georgia.

The Guantánamo -Havana cycling tour's general classification remained unchanged after the conclusion of the sixth stage Camaguey-Ciego de Ávila.