Cubans Anisley Garcia and Prisis Leydis Ruiz were below expectations in the three-meter springboard in the international tournament, a trial for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, to be held in the same facility that will host the diving of the Olympic Games.

Cuban divers Anisley Garcia and Prisis Leydi Ruiz traveled to Paris, to compete from May 8 to 11 in a tournament-tryout for the Olympic Games , to be held from July 26 to August 11.

Maria Caridad Colon, vice president of the Cuban Athletics Federation(FCA by its Spanish acronym) , received in Bahamas the Gold Order of Merit that World Athletics (WA) decided a year ago to award to two-time Olympic champion Alberto Juantorena, for his merits on athletics tand his leadership in the development of this world sport.

HAVANA, Cuba, May 6 (ACN) Carlos Daniel Albornoz and Luis Ernesto Quesada will face each other today in a duel of Cubans in the Elite group of the international chess tournament Capablanca in Memoriam, which is led by Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov after three rounds at the downtown Habana Libre Hotel.

The three Cuban relay teams participating at the World Athletics Relay Championship, held in the Bahamas, left without tickets to the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.

Cuban beach duo Noslen Diaz-Jorge Luis Alayo won the silver medal at the men's tournament of the North, Central America and Caribbean Confederation (Norceca) Circuit, held at the Barcelo Solymar Arenas Blancas resort in Varadero.

The members of the three Cuban relay teams that will participate at the IAAF World Relays, to be held in the Bahamas on May 4 and 5, will travel today to that Caribbean nation.

Carlos Daniel Albornoz—Cuba’s No. 1 on the leaderboard and America’s 23rd —welcomed May with a new personal record of 2,612 ELO points in the world chess ranking thanks to his results in international tournaments held in Menorca and La Roda (Spain).

Cuba won the silver medal at the mixed team event of the Pan American and Oceania Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro, losing to the hosts, after finishing fifth in the individual event, dominated by the local team, Brazil.

A victorious farewell led Cuban Elier Miranda to the title as owner of five points in the Mi Veracruz National Chess Championship, which for six rounds attracted the attention from that Mexican locality.

 With an accumulated total of 6,729 points, Cuban Josmi Sanchez finished 12th at the Multistars Decathlon and Heptathlon athletic meeting, held in Brescia, Italy.

Three teams are leading the Ajeduni 2024 University Chess Festival, which today will surpass half of its rounds at the Belen Convent, in Havana.

Cuban duo Noslen Diaz and Jorge Luis Alayo had a successful debut in Group A of the main draw of the World Pro Tour Beach Volleyball Challenger Tournament, based in Xiamen, China, by defeating 2-1 and 2-0 pairs from France and Brazil, in that order.

The Cuban duo of Noslen Diaz and Jorge Luis Alayo won a historic bronze medal at the Elite 16 tournament of the World Pro Tour, defeating today 2-0 the German duo Ehlier-Wicker in the edition of Tepic, Mexico, a performance with which they added their third medal on the road to Paris 2024.

Playing without its captain Jonathan Hernández, who until then was its top scorer but was banned from the final on the yellow-card rule, Cuba finished second for the fifth time in as many finals of the CONCACAF Futsal Championships after losing 4-3 to Panama in the gold match of the tournament.

Cuban sports stars Mijaín López, Javier Sotomayor and Ana Fidelia Quirós arrived in Paris as guests of a gala organized by Adidas to present its line of apparels for the 2024 Olympic Games and bound to be an opportunity for active and retired athletes from around the world to meet and share views.