Lianna Montero

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Lianna de la Caridad Montero Herrera (born 21 January 1998){{Cite web|title=Lianna Montero|url=https://wrsd.lima2019.pe/panam/en/results/wrestling/athlete-profile-n1121375-montero-lianna.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025201606/https://wrsd.lima2019.pe/panam/en/results/wrestling/athlete-profile-n1121375-montero-lianna.htm|archive-date=25 October 2020|access-date=3 January 2021|website=2019 Pan American Games}} 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 53{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2016 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament without qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.{{Cite web|title=2016 Pan American Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/results_03_frisco_tq.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115001521/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/results_03_frisco_tq.pdf|archive-date=15 January 2018|access-date=21 August 2020|website=United World Wrestling}} She won her first match against Giullia Penalber of Brazil but she lost her next match against Betzabeth Argüello of Venezuela. Montero went on to win one of the bronze medals in the competition.

In 2018, Montero won the silver medal in the 57{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2018 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Lima, Peru.{{Cite news|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1064746/gray-secures-first-pan-american-wrestling-championships-title-in-lima|title=Gray secures first Pan American Wrestling Championships title in Lima|last=Pavitt|first=Michael|date=May 5, 2018|work=InsideTheGames.biz|access-date=13 January 2020}} 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 57{{nbsp}}kg event.{{Cite web|title=2018 Central American and Caribbean Games Wrestling Results Book|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/results_07_barranquilla.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321150203/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/results_07_barranquilla.pdf|archive-date=21 March 2020|access-date=30 June 2020|website=United World Wrestling}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/2018-world-championships_final-book.pdf|title=2018 World Wrestling Championships Results|website=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414123246/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/2018-world-championships_final-book.pdf|archive-date=14 April 2020|access-date=14 April 2020}} In her bronze medal match she defeated Jacarra Winchester of the United States.

In 2019, Montero represented Cuba at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru and she won one of the bronze medals in the 53{{nbsp}}kg event.{{Cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-08/results_08_lima.pdf|title=2019 Pan American Games Wrestling Results|website=United World Wrestling|access-date=17 March 2020}} She also competed in the 53{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan without winning a medal.{{Cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/nur-sultan_kz_final-book_1.pdf|title=2019 World Wrestling Championships Results|website=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412151211/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/nur-sultan_kz_final-book_1.pdf|archive-date=12 April 2020|access-date=12 April 2020}} She was eliminated in the repechage by Roksana Zasina of Poland. In 2020, she won one of the bronze medals in the 53{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2020 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Ottawa, Canada.{{Cite news|last=Etchells|first=Daniel|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1091672/arthur-win-pan-american-wrestling-champs|title=Arthur wins first Pan American Wrestling Championships title for Jamaica|date=8 March 2020|work=InsideTheGames.biz|access-date=14 March 2020}}

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.{{Cite news|last=Houston|first=Michael|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/index.php/articles/1091947/valencia-escoto-mexico-wrestling|title=Valencia Escoto becomes first female Mexican wrestler to secure Olympic qualification|date=14 March 2020|work=InsideTheGames.biz|access-date=16 March 2020}} However, she did not compete and Laura Hérin competed in the women's 53{{nbsp}}kg event instead.{{clarification needed|reason=This needs clarification why she didn't compete|date=August 2021}}