Lianna Montero

Lianna de la Caridad Montero Herrera (born 21 January 1998) is a Cuban freestyle wrestler. She is a bronze medalist at the World Wrestling Championships and the Pan American Games. She also won the gold medal in her event at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games held in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Career

In 2016, Montero competed in the women's 53kg event at the 2016 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament without qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She won her first match against Giullia Penalber of Brazil but she lost her next match against Betzabeth Argüello of Venezuela. At the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games held in Barranquilla, Colombia, she defeated Nes Marie Rodríguez of Puerto Rico in the final and she won the gold medal in the 57kg event. Later that year, she also won one of the bronze medals in the 55 kg event at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. In her bronze medal match she defeated Jacarra Winchester of the United States. She also competed in the 53kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan without winning a medal. She was eliminated in the repechage by Roksana Zasina of Poland. In 2020, she won one of the bronze medals in the 53kg event at the 2020 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Ottawa, Canada.

In March 2020, Montero qualified to represent Cuba at the 2020 Summer Olympics at the 2020 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Ottawa, Canada. However, she did not compete and Laura Hérin competed in the women's 53kg event instead.

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