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The president of the Turkmenistan Boxing Federation, Aliasker Bashirov and the Cuban ambassador to this Central Asian nation, Alfredo Nieves Portuondo, valued the collaboration between the two countries.

The conversations took place in the Olympic Village of the Turkmen capital, where other managers of this sports discipline also attended.

The Cuban diplomat expressed the importance of the meeting and his pleasure for the interest shown by the Turkmen side to boost contacts between the two nations.

The squads of Uzbekistan and Cuba held confrontational stops during November 9 and 20, at the Rafael Trejo gymnasium in the Cuban capital.

Alberto Puig, national commissioner of the Island Boxing Federation, told the media that “this was a good opportunity for the Cuban preselection, as they had several experience rivals. These duels served as a thermometer for the boys to look for the sports form before the Playa Girón  national tournament. "

A sextet of Cuban judokas will rise to the Georgian tatami starting this Saturday, when they participate in the Grand Prix (GP) of Tbilisi, third of the level tournaments in which there will be presence of athletes of the Greater Antilles, reports the Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde.

According to the media, three representatives in each sex traveled to the capital of that eastern European state, led in each case by Kaliema Antomarchi, world bronze of 2017 in the 78 kilograms, and Iván Silva (90 kg), runner-up in the world of the year past.

Ulaanbaatar. October 18, 2017. Mr. Ts. Sharavjamts, President of the Physical Culture and Sport Authority, Implementary Agency of the Government of Mongolia held a meeting with Cuban Ambassador Raúl Delgado Concepción this morning, where aspects related to cooperation in sports between the two countries were discussed. With the signing of a Bilateral Cooperation Agreement between INDER and this implementing agency in 2001, the first sports collaboration actions were started for the recruitment of Cuban boxing coaches who worked in Mongolia in different periods of time.