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Cuba aims for men’s supremacy in world youth boxing championships

CubaPLUS Magazine

Cuba will compete this month in the world youth boxing championship in Alicante, Spain, with the goal of winning the title by countries in the male branch, the head coach of the team, Santiago Suarez, said.

Canada monopolizes first prizes at the Great Cuba Golf Tournament 2022

CubaPLUS Magazine, Fotos Ferval

Canada swept the prizes of the recently concluded Great Cuba Golf Tournament by achieving the first places in categories I and II for men and women, while Cuba was awarded the prize in Gross.

Erick Hernández, a master of the ball

By Adrián Mengana Martínez Photos: Ricardo López Hevia

Armed with a great technical arsenal and mental focus, Cuba’s Erick Hernández has a unique skills at records, a football and achieving the unattainable by mastering a ball. Hernández holds more than 45 world records with almost every part of his body - thighs, knees, feet, head, running the 100 meters and the marathon - and proudly boasts two firsts in the Guinness Book of World Records

More than 240 foreign runners confirm for marathon in Cuba

CubaPLUS Magazine

A total of 242 foreign runners from 34 countries have already confirmed their attendance to the 2022 Havana Marathon (Marabana), director of the National Commission for Races and Walks, Carlos Gattorno, announced on Monday.

Díaz-Canel: Cuba dressed up Caribbean sports in luxury

CubaPLUS Magazine

President Miguel Díaz-Canel considered that "Cuba dressed the Caribbean in luxury", due to the excellent results of the island's athletes in the first Games of the area, held in Guadeloupe.

Cuban Erick Hernandez sets world record in football juggling

Cubaplus Magazine

Former Cuban soccer player Erick Hernandez set a world record of 351 touches on the ball with his head in one minute on Saturday, thus surpassing the previous record by 10 strokes, set by Gao Chong, from China.

Sporting greats in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cuban wrestler Mijaín López, Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas and Argentina’s soccer team were declared best in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 57th edition of the Annual Sports Survey organized by the Prensa Latina news agency.

Cuba to host international volleyball events in 2022

Cubaplus Magazine

The Norceca Challengers Tournament and the Under-21 Pan-American Volleyball Cup are the international events that Cuba will host in 2022, it was announced in Havana.

Cuba to receive president of the World Baseball Confederation

CubaPLUS Magazine

The visit in January of the president of the World Baseball and Softball Confederation, Ricardo Fraccari, is welcomed by lovers of the sport of balls and strikes in Cuba.

Cuba made its Olympic mark in Tokyo 2020

Spectacular is the only adjective to describe Cuba’s performance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, after a number of emotions that led to glory for the team in a contest marked by COVID-19.

Kid Chocolate, champion of fists and heart

Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz

Among the great champions of Cuban and American sports of all time is boxer Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo, known, and still remembered today, as Kid Chocolate, with great strength in his fists, and also in his heart.

María Teresa Mora, Cuban lady of chess

By Ana María Silveira

Among the women who have shone on the 64 squares battlefield is the Cuban chess player María Teresa Mora Iturralde, the first International Master of Ibero- America in the so-called science game and unbeatable national champion for two decades.

Ramón Fonst, second to none

By Gabriela Santiesteban

Among the legends of the Olympic sport, fencer Ramón Fonst Segundo, first athlete from Cuba and Latin America to become a medalist in international championships, has a deserved place.

Paralympic Athletes Committee elects Omara Durand as a member

Cubaplus Courtesy of Prensa Latina

Cuban sprinter Omara Durand was elected today as a member of the Paralympic Athletes Committee, the entity announced so during the event's closing ceremony in Tokyo.

Cuban athlete wins gold medal at Tokyo Paralympic Games

Prensa Latina

Cuban sprinter Omara Durand won her seventh gold medal in the 100 meters finals, class T12, of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Matanzas, capital of romanticism and culture

Latin American Cinema: Once again the great date in Havana

Blue Diamond Resorts continues to expand its operations in Cuba

Achy Lang and the influence of Cuban music

Female entrepreneurs, a valuable contribution to the national economy

Cuba aims for men’s supremacy in world youth boxing championships

Canada monopolizes first prizes at the Great Cuba Golf Tournament 2022

Erick Hernández, a master of the ball

More than 240 foreign runners confirm for marathon in Cuba

Díaz-Canel: Cuba dressed up Caribbean sports in luxury

Cuban Erick Hernandez sets world record in football juggling

Sporting greats in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cuba to host international volleyball events in 2022

Cuba to receive president of the World Baseball Confederation

Cuba made its Olympic mark in Tokyo 2020

Kid Chocolate, champion of fists and heart

María Teresa Mora, Cuban lady of chess

Ramón Fonst, second to none

Paralympic Athletes Committee elects Omara Durand as a member

Cuban athlete wins gold medal at Tokyo Paralympic Games

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