Cuban weightlifters were second and third at the 2024 Pan-American Championships, currently under way in Venezuela.

Former world Chess champ, Grand master Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov, confirmed his participation at the Capablanca in Memoriam International Chess Championship to take place May 2-12 in this city capital.

Cubans Filiberto Delgado and Eduardo Perez were exalted today to the prestigious Hall of Fame of Wrestling in America, in a ceremony held in Acapulco, Mexico.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 27 (ACN) Greco-Roman wrestlers will be the first to take part in the Olympic Wrestling Qualifiers of the Americas, to be held in Acapulco, February 28 to March 1.

Cubans Yeniuska Mirabal, in the 71 kilograms (kg), and Olfides Saez (89 kg) will compete today in the continuation of the Pan American Weightlifting Championship, pre-Olympic that will conclude on the 29th in the Venezuelan state of Miranda.

Leslei Amat was the best for Cuba at the 8th edition of the Havana Triathlon, taking tenth place, with dominance among women for the US Gwen Jorgensen, Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro 2016.

The Cuban Figital Basketball team lost with a close score of 31-32 against Venezuela, in its second presentation at the 1st Future Games to be held in Kazan, Russia.

Cuban freestyle wrestlers did not win any medals on the second day of the Pan American Wrestling Championship, to be held in Acapulco, Mexico, until the next 24th.

Cuba won three medals, one of each color, on the first day of the Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Acapulco, Mexico.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterparts from the Commonwealth of Independent States attended the opening of the 1st Games of the Future in the city of Kazan.

At a meeting of high-ranking sports authorities and distinguished visitors, organized in the run-up to the 1st Games of the Future, Osvaldo Vento Montiller, president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), referred to Cuba’s presence at the event inaugurated Wednesday in the Russian city of Kazan as a great honor and thanked Russia for inviting the island to participate.

For the second time Cuba will contest the Little Leagues Baseball World Series which is annually hosted in August by the US city of South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Cuban Sheyla Hernandez won the silver medal on the closing day of the IBSA Judo Grand Prix, held in Heidelberg, Germany.

Cuba's top singles rowers have been training since Friday in the central province of Cienfuegos, with their focus on the qualifying tournament for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Onel Planas Castillo, head coach (DT by its Spanish acronym) of the Cuban men's basketball team, said in Havana that they have the purpose of advancing to the AmeriCup 2025, in the qualifying tournament of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).

Cuba opened today its action without medals on the first day of the Grand Slam of judo in Baku, Azerbaijan, a competition that will conclude this Sunday with the presence of 404 athletes from 62 countries.