José Daniel Díaz Robertti (born February 22, 1989, in

Acarigua Acarigua (), founded as San Miguel de Acarigua, is a city in northwestern Venezuela, in the northern part of the state of Portuguesa (state), Portuguesa. Formerly the state capital, it is a major commercial center for the northern Llanos regio ...

, Portuguesa) is an amateur Venezuelan

freestyle wrestler Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...

, who competed in the men's light heavyweight category before moving up to the heavyweight category. He won a bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the

2011 Pan American Games The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from October 14–30, 2011, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Some events were held in the nearby cities of Ciudad Guzmán, ...

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. Diaz represented

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at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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, where he competed in the men's 84 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen match, before losing out to Latvia's Armands Zvirbulis, with a three-set technical score (1–0, 0–1, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3. At the

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

, he competed in the men's heavyweight category. There, he lost in the second round to Mamed Ibragimov.

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NBC Olympics Profile
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