Vanessa Chalá

Chalá won one of the bronze medals in the women's 70 kg event at the 2014 Pan American Judo Championships held in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Chalá won a bronze medal in the women's 78 kg event at the 2018 Pan American Judo Championships held in San José, Costa Rica. In the same year, she won the gold medal in her event at the South American Games held in Cochabamba, Bolivia.^[2]

At the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru, Chalá won one of the bronze medals in the women's 78 kg event.^[3] She defeated Liliana Cárdenas of Mexico in her bronze medal match.^[4] She won the gold medal in her event at the 2020 Pan American Judo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.

In 2021, Chalá competed in the women's 78 kg event at the Judo World Masters held in Doha, Qatar.^[5] A few months later, she won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Antalya held in Antalya, Turkey. In April 2021, she won the gold medal in her event at the 2021 Pan American Judo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico. In June 2021, she competed in the women's 78 kg event at the World Judo Championships held in Budapest, Hungary where she was eliminated in her first match.

Chalá represented Ecuador at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.^[6] She competed in the women's 78 kg event where she was eliminated in her first match.^[7]

She won a bronze medal in her event at both the 2023 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships held in Calgary, Canada and the 2024 Pan American-Oceania Judo Championships held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.