The Granma Chestnuts conquered their second consecutive crown in the Cuban Baseball Championship, when they win in seven games to Las Tunas team, four victories against three.
Pole Vaulter Yarisley Silva and boxer Julio César La Cruz were voted best Cuban athletes in 2017. They were chosen through votes cast by representatives of the National Sports Institute, sports media and the Young Communist League. Cuban sports awards 2017: Best Team: Tamers of Cuba (Boxing) - Won Hamburg World Championships and Pan American Tournament, and placed second in the World Boxing Cuba’s Best of 2017 Pole Vaulter Silva and Boxer La Cruz Series.
By Julio César Mejías Cárdenas, Photos: Prensa Latina
The Cuban delegation’s historic achievement at the recent World U18 Championships in the Kenyan capital Nairobi bodes well for further athletics success in the near future.
At the beginning of this year, sports authorities inaugurated the Cuban Sports Information Resource Centre, an institution that will enhance scientific sports development on the Island.
After several seasons marked with world titles and records, limits seem nonexistent for the Cuban paralympic athlete Omara Durand, formerly in the T13 category and now in the T12 (severely visually impaired).
By Alfredo Boada / Photos: Roberto Morejón and Prensa Latina
Cuba hopes to have a complete and competitive world class gymnastics team, following Manrique Larduet’s impressive international results and the presence of three Cubans in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. Cuban gymnasts had last participated in the Athens 2004 Games.
By Alfredo Boada / Photos: Roberto Morejón and Prensa Latina
He started as a water polo player and today holds a very unique record: mastery of the ball in the water. Jhoen Lefont Rodríguez (Matanzas, 1987), contrary to other athletes, had better control of the ball with his head than with his feet, ever since he began training at the age of 13.
Canadian officials are talking with Cuban authorities to negotiate the participation of a local squad in the independent Can-Am Baseball League, with the possible hiring of Cuban ballplayers.
The fastest man on the planet did it again. For the third consecutive time, Usain Bolt won the sprinting Olympic gold medals - 100, 200 and 4x100 meter relay, standing out in Prensa Latina’s Sports survey, ‘Encuesta’.