Couple of draws in the two final rounds condemned Cuban Lázaro Bruzón to finish second in the ITT Millonario chess open, in Bogota , Colombia.

The Cuban U-20 soccer team defeated 3-0 Aruba , in the first of two friendly matches based at Pedro Marrero stadium in this city.

The s quads of Santiago de Cuba and Holguin appeared today in the called qualifying area to the second phase of the Cuban National Baseball Series, after their wins on Tuesday over Isla de la Juventud and Villa Clara respectively.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 9 (acn) The U-20 Cuban soccer team will play today the first of two friendly matches against Aruba at Pedro Marrero Stadium, in Havana.

Cuban chess player Lázaro Bruzón won with 12 points the Blitz event and remained on top of the classical contest ITT Millonario, which ends today in the Colombian city of Bogota.

Industriales beat Cienfuegos 5-4 to complete the only swept of the weekend in the Cuban baseball championship and now appears at just two games behind the leader Matanzas.

The Cuban baseball championship will resume hostilities today amid a relentless struggle between the teams for accessing the second round, when remaining only 12 days for closing the preliminary phase.

Mijaín Lopez, double Olympic champion and five-time world champion in Greco-Roman Wrestling was chosen today as the best Cuban athlete of the discipline this year.

Lázaro Bruzón, Yuniesky Quesada and Isam Ortiz will be among Cubans attending today the chess tournament ITT Millonario de Navidad, in the Colombian city of Bogotá.

Friendly games between the men's and women's basketball teams of the University of Havana (UH) and the U.S. academic program Semester at Sea took place on Monday at Havana's Ramiro Valdes Daussa sports center.

With a harvest of 123 gold, 66 silver and 65 bronze medals, Cuba concluded on top of the standings of the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games Veracruz 2014.

The joys of Cuba lasted until the last day of the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games, although the biggest Caribbean nation had already won the whole competition, Richer Pérez and Dailin Belmonte earned gold and silver medals in that order in the marathon event to increase the festivities.

The Cuban Angel Fournier is confident that he will win the triple crown in the rowing tournament of the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games, after qualifying to the final of the men´s single sculls event, with a stage in Mandinga Lagoon, in this city.

The high jumper Sergio Mestre achieved personal best of 2.26 meters reaching thus a title that Cuba had not won for 16 years in Central American and Caribbean Games.

Cuban athletics conquered five titles yesterday, maintaining thus its good performance in the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games, based in Veracruz , Mexico, where the rowers won t heir first title.

Cuban wrestler Mijail Lopez would have liked to win his title on the mattress, but what matters is that he won the only title missing from his medals collection.