Nathaly Grimán

Nathaly Josefina Grimán Herrera (born 29 December 1991) is a Venezuelan freestyle wrestler. She is a gold medalist at the Central American and Caribbean Games and a two-time gold medalist at the Bolivarian Games. She is also a five-time medalist at the Pan American Wrestling Championships.

Career

Grimán competed in the women's 63kg event at the 2013 World Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 63kg event at the 2014 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Mexico City, Mexico.

Grimán also won one of the bronze medals in the same event at the 2015 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Santiago, Chile. A few months later, she competed in her event at the 2015 Pan American Games held in Toronto, Canada. She was eliminated in her first match by eventual bronze medalist Jackeline Rentería of Colombia. In that same year, she competed in the 63kg event at the 2015 World Wrestling Championships held in Las Vegas, United States where she was also eliminated in her first match.

Grimán competed at the 2016 Pan American Olympic Qualification Tournament hoping to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She did not qualify for the Olympics at this tournament. She was eliminated in her first match at the tournament held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. In that same year, she won the gold medal in her event at the 2017 Bolivarian Games held in Santa Marta, Colombia. She defeated Jackeline Rentería of Colombia in her gold medal match. At the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games held in Barranquilla, Colombia, she won the gold medal in the women's 62kg event. She was eliminated in her first match in the women's 62kg event at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.

At the 2019 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Grimán won one of the bronze medals in the women's 62kg event. A few months later, she lost her bronze medal match against Laís Nunes of Brazil in the women's 62kg event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru. At the 2019 World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, she was eliminated in her second match by Mariana Cherdivara of Moldova.

Grimán competed at the 2020 Pan American Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Ottawa, Canada, hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She did not qualify at this tournament and she also failed to qualify for the Olympics at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria. She won the silver medal in her event at the 2021 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Grimán won the gold medal in the women's 62kg event at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia. She defeated Leonela Ayoví of Ecuador in her gold medal match.

Grimán won the silver medal in her event at the 2023 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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