Cuban judo judokas Jonathan Charon and Adelannis Carbonell had a quick finish at the World Championships in Ubu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, losing in the second and first bouts of the preliminaries, respectively.

The Cuban Yerisbel Miranda started the day at the top of the Central American Women's Chess Championship, held in the city of Santa Clara in central Cuba.

The star sprinter Omara Durand, multi Paralympic and world champion, along with Raciel Gonzalez, are part of the Cuban delegation already present at the World Parathletics Championships in Kobe, Japan, to be held on May 17 to 25.

Cuba closed with a silver medal the last day of the Ibero-American Athletics Championships 2024, held in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, Brazil, where it also won three bronze medals.

Cuban men's handball team qualified for the 2025 World Championship by winning the title in the North American and Caribbean Handball Tournament, hosted by Mexico.

Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov won the Elite group, followed by Cubans Carlos Daniel Albornoz and Luis Ernesto Quesada, in the 57th Capablanca in Memoriam International Chess Tournament.

Cuba finished without medals at the Qazaqstan Barysy Grand Slam, losing on Sunday Idalis Ortiz in her second bout of the preliminaries of the Grand Slam of Judo, held in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Cuban canoeist Yarisleidys Cirilo won the bronze medal in the single scull (C-1) at 200 meters, at the closing of the World Sprint Canoe World Cup, held in Szeged, Hungary.

Cuba won another two bronze medals in the Saturday events of the Ibero-American Athletics Championships 2024, held in Cuiabá, Brazil.

Cuban freestyle wrestlers Laura Herin, 53 kilograms (kg), and Yaynelis Sanz (57 kg), lost their chances to attend the Paris 2024 Olympic Games today, in the world wrestling qualifier held in Istanbul.

Cuban duo Noslen Diaz and Jorge Luis Alayo will face today the host Dominican Republic De Jesus-Martinez, in one of the semifinal matches of the Juan Dolio phase of the North, Central America and Caribbean Circuit (Norceca) of Beach Volleyball.

Cuban freestyle wrestlers Laura Herin, 53 kilograms (kg), and Yaynelis Sanz (57 kg), will seek today the Olympic quota for Paris 2024 in the world wrestling qualifiers, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, until May 12.

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.