Chess
Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez beat his Russian counterpart Ernesto Inarkiev to maintain his unbeatable performance and contributes to the success of St. Petersburg, exponent monarch at the Russia's Chess League Team.
From the city of Sochi organizers said the Caribbean athlete, 2757 Elo points, passed over the disadvantage of leading black pieces in 62 moves of a Grunfeld defense against an opponent of 2691 Elo points.
It was the 2nd win of Dominguez, also with 2 tables, and it made the difference in duel completed 5 with divisions, including Russian GMs Peter Svidler (2756) and Dmitry Jakovenko (2726), leaders in their respective casts.
Thus, the St. Petersburg totaled 6 points and 4th in a vanguard led by Malachite and University of Belorechensk with 7 points each, which equaled their clash and are located in that order by tie break.
Triathlon
Cuba will be represented by the triathlete Pedro Luis Gómez at the Triathlon Pan-American Cup U-23, scheduled for next Sunday in Salinas, Ecuador.
The capital's representative, with only 16 years old, faces the lid for positions that may give him continental ranking points, said to the sports edition Jit Aurelio Romero, national commissioner, adding that Pedro Luis is a young man with many perspectives who comes from swimming and has adapted very well to this sport, where in addition covers cycling and foot race... is disciplined and we all are full of hopes with him, the expert said.
However, we have to wait for the technical workshop to know if the ones enrolled in this category will compete adjusted to the elite format that includes 1500 meter swim, 40 km. bike and 10 km. career, or will observe the so-called sprint format, which covers 750 meters, 20 km-5 km.
According to the official site of the Pan-American Confederation (PATCO), over 25 nations have already confirmed their attendance.
Cuban Sports History
Glories of Cuban sport, Olympic and World champions, historians, journalists and other personalities, delivered interesting lectures for 3 days during the V National Sports History Workshop, which concluded at the National Aquarium of Cuba.
Arnaldo Rivero Fuxá, vice president for Teaching, Science, Technology and Environment, of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), stressed the importance of these meetings for the knowledge of new generations, so they have the duty to announce the development of Cuban sports since 1959 and recalled when the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, said "We came to get the sport as far as possible," a dream become truth.
The conclave, which included 160 delegates from various provinces, was dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the 1st Cuba's Olympic medal after 1959 obtained by Enrique Figuerola and the Cuban delegation at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Renowned figures like Enrique Figuerola himself, Alberto Juantorena, Javier Sotomayor, and many others, remembered their lives of athletes in an event that led to the launch of the books "The thought of Fidel in Sports" by Tomás Herrera, and "History of the Central American and Caribbean Sports Games," by Henry Montesino, as well as a tribute to Teofilo Stevenson, directed by Alcides Sagarra and Victor Joaquín Ortega.
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