José Daniel Díaz Robertti (born February 22, 1989, in Acarigua, Portuguesa) is an amateur Venezuelan freestyle wrestler, 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

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in ...

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 Armands Zvirbulis (born 11 September 1987) is a Latvian freestyle wrestler. He qualified for 2012 Summer Olympics in London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United King ...

, with a three-set technical score (1–0, 0–1, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3. At the

2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

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

Mamed Ibragimov Mamed Ibragimov (born June 9, 1992 in Pavlodar region, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakhstani freestyle wrestler ( Azerbaijani origin).He competed in the men's freestyle 97 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in which he was eliminated in the quarterfina ...

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NBC Olympics Profile
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