Milaimys Marín

Milaimys de la Caridad Marín Potrille (born 16 March 2001) is a Cuban freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 76kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. She won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile. She won the gold medal in the girls' freestyle 73kg event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Marín also won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games held in Cali, Colombia.

Career

In 2019, Marín was eliminated in her first match in the women's freestyle 76kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. At the 2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Budapest, Hungary, she won the gold medal in the 72kg event. She defeated Wang Xiaoqian of China in her gold medal match. She also failed to qualify for the Olympics at the 2021 World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Marín won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games held in Cali, Colombia.

She competed in the women's 76kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. She won her first match and she was then eliminated by Anastasiia Shustova of Ukraine. In September 2023, she lost her bronze medal match in the women's 76kg event at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. Marín won a separate match against Cătălina Axente of Romania and she earned a quota place for Cuba for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

In November 2023, Marín won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile. She defeated Aiperi Medet Kyzy of Kyrgyzstan in her bronze medal match.

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