Judo

Cold, fear, and a decision with no turning back: Melissa Hurtado recalls her escape from the Cuban judo team in France

Iván Silva enhances his legend with another gold medal; Andy Granda achieves a golden double for Cuba

Cuba kicks off strongly in Santo Domingo 2026: brings home four gold medals in final day of competition

Cuba aims for third place in the medal tally at Santo Domingo 2026

Cuba adds personnel for the Santo Domingo 2026 Games

Cuba asserts its dominance in Guatemala with five gold medals at the regional judo qualifier

Two Cuban champions reunite in Miami

Judo athlete Dayanara Curbelo wins Cuba's first gold medal at the Junior Pan American Games

The decline of Cuban judo continues: zero medals in Budapest 2025

ICE detains Cuban judoka who escaped from an official delegation: His family fears he will be deported

Cuba remains without medals at the Judo World Championship in Budapest: Maylín del Toro is defeated in her debut

Cuba will compete with nine judokas in the World Championship in Budapest

Andy Granda leads Cuba with gold at the 2025 Pan American Judo Championships

Cuban judokas win bronze at the Tashkent Grand Slam

Cuban judoka Dayle Ojeda recounts how she defected at the Paris Olympics: "I looked back to see if they were following me."

Nationalized judo player in Spain, Ayumi Leiva: "They humiliated me in Cuba."

Cuban judoka Andy Granda loses match for the Olympic bronze in Paris

Cuban judo legend Idalys Ortiz falls in the round of 16 and leaves Paris without a medal

Cubans under other flags in Paris 2024: Ana Laura Portuondo, rebellion on the tatami

Cuban judoka Maylín del Toro eliminated in her debut at Paris 2024

Cuban judoka to represent the United States at Paris 2024

Interview with Oscar Brayson: "I am in Honduras raising the level of judo in this Central American country"

Judo athlete Magdiel Estrada leaves the Cuban delegation in Brazil

Cuban judoka Ónix Cortés: "I always remember Veitía because he taught us to be strong."

Family seeks help to send judoka Maricet Espinosa's body to Cuba: "There is a shattered mother"

Cuban judoka Maricet Espinosa passes away at 34 years old

Shooting and judo adorn the Cuban delegation with gold at the Santiago 2023 Parapan American Games

Judo athlete Danieska Carrión: “I have had to learn to live by leaving behind a shameful and miserable past.”

Cuba bids farewell to the 2023 Pan American Games from fifth place in the medal tally

Cuban judo wins gold in mixed teams at the Pan American Games

Pan American gold for the Cuban table tennis players in mixed doubles

Cuba's harvest of gold medals grows thanks to Pan American judo

Cuban table tennis will have representatives in Paris 2024

Golden judo medals propel Cuba forward in the Pan American rankings

Andy Granda wins the Pan American and Oceania judo tournament in Calgary

World champion Manolo Poulot: "With my effort and my hard work, I can build a life that I cannot have in Cuba."

Cuban Silva again clinches bronze at the Judo World Championship

Cuban judoka Maylín del Toro also does not advance past the first round of the world championship

Bitter debut for Cuban judokas at the World Championship in Doha

Cuban judokas assert their authority at the Junior Pan American Cup

Cuban judokas win ten medals in France

Cuban Andy Granda nominated for Judoka of the Year by the International Federation

Last farewell to Ronaldo Veitía at the Sports City of Havana

The legendary Cuban judo coach Ronaldo Veitía has passed away

Trainer Ronaldo Veitía arrives in Cuba after months hospitalized in Spain

Cubans Antomarchi and González bid farewell early from the Judo World Championship

Judo World Championship: Two more Cubans eliminated in their debut

Cuban judokas go home empty-handed on the first day of the World Championship in Tashkent

Ronaldo Veitía remains hospitalized in Spain

Former judo coach Ronaldo Veitía surpasses critical condition in a hospital in Spain

Cuban judo coach Ronaldo Veitía admitted to intensive care in Spain

Ronaldo Veitía, a legend of Cuban judo: "It wasn't right for them to dismiss me like that."

Cuban star judoka Estela Rodríguez passes away at the age of 54

"In Cuba, there was no future," says Cuban judoka who sought political asylum in Spain

Former Cuban judoka Yurisel Laborde: I do not lose hope of seeing myself again on a tatami teaching children

The wife of former Cuban judo coach Ronaldo Veitía has passed away

Judoka Asley González to CiberCuba: "This result is a motivation to keep training."

Cuban judoka Asley González wins silver for Romania at the Paris Grand Slam

Cuban judoka Asley González makes his debut against Romania at the Zagreb Grand Prix

Two youth judokas abandon the Cuba team during a stopover in Spain