On the morning of this Thursday, the list of the baseball team of Villa Clara that will participate at the 58th National Series scheduled to begin on September 9th was announced in a meeting held at the headquarters of the Provincial Assembly of the People's Power in Villa Clara.
The prominent Former Baseball Player of Villa Clara Ariel Pestano Valdes was discharged from the Arnaldo Milian University Hospital on the morning of this Thursday, June 21st.
Boxers Robeisy Ramírez and Lázaro Álvarez, and gymnast Manrique Larduet are not only some of the athletes from whom we expect to see outstanding results in the upcoming Barranquilla 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games, but also students at the Manuel Fajardo University of Physical Culture and Sports Science (UCCFD).
Twenty nine years ago, Javier Sotomayor who turned 50 this 2017, wrote his name in the athletics history books in the high jump event, setting his first World Record (2.43m) during a 1988 athletics meet in Salamanca, a city which on August 27, 1993, also bore witness to his sensational second, and today’s current, world record of 2.45 meters.
Cuba's sports movement is working hard to recover and modernize a number of facilities to improve training of our athletes, with a view toward upcoming competitions, on the island and abroad.
The prominent journalist, narrator and sports commentator Ramon "Piti" Rivera Garcia, one of the essential voices of Radio Rebelde, died a victim of a long-standing illness against which he battled tirelessly.
The young Fide Master (FM) of Villa Clara, Roxangel Obregon, has become the latest news in Cuban chess. It turns out that the young lady from La Plana has just achieved her second International Master (IM) standard in the national championship, first category, in Holguin.
The young Master Fide (MF) of Villa Clara, Roxangel Obregon, had a sensational spike in the semifinal stage of the women's national chess championship, which was played in Holguin, achieving this Sunday, one of the four places to the finals.
With the sharpest axes they could wield, the Lumberjacks made an epic comeback at the playoffs against Industrials and they will be the challengers of Granma, the current champion, in an unprecedented final for the most coveted title of Cuban sport.
This Monday, January 15th begins the semifinal stage of the national men's chess championship. Villa Clara will have two representatives in Havana: MI Diasmany Otero and GM Yasser Quesada, which reappears in the Cuban science game tournaments.
Argentine football star Lionel Messi heads the list of the 100 best players in the world, published by the British newspaper The Guardian.
According to the information sent to the CMHW sports office, Ariel Osvaldo Pestano Valdes was ratified for Sub 23 series, and Eduardo Paret Perez was appointed as the new Technical Director of the Villa Clara Baseball Team.
Once again it is shown that in sports nothing is written. That is well known now by the sub 23 years soccer teams of Cienfuegos and Villa Clara, participating at the national championship of the category, because the first, against all odds, was out of the final, qualifying the second.
