Víctor Manuel Castillo Petit (born 8 June 1981) is a
Venezuela
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n
track and field
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athlete who specialises in the
long jump
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. His personal best jump is 8.34 metres, a
Venezuelan record achieved in May 2004 in
Cochabamba
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.
He won the South American junior title in 2000 and rose to become the
South American Champion in 2003 on home soil. At the
2003 Pan American Games
The 2003 Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 to 17, 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when Dominican Republic had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America.
Al ...
, he took the bronze medal. Castillo appeared at the
World Championships in Athletics
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that year and later represented his country at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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.
Won the long jump title at the
Bolivarian Games
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. He was the bronze medallist at the
2011 Military World Games
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The 5th Military ...
then participated at the 2011 Pan American Games.
Tested positive for banned substance Dimetilexaniamine in 2011, the substance found in his test was fearly new added to the WADA list, he took from a pre-workout supplement
doping suspension.
Career
His first international outing came at the
1998 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, where he came sixth in the long jump and was part of Venezuela's silver medal-winning
4×100 metres relay team. He returned to win the long jump
gold medal
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at the
2000 event, beating Brazil's
Thiago Dias. At the more competitive
he came third with a wind-assisted mark of 7.77 m, finishing behind
Leevan Sands
Leevan Sands (born August 16, 1981 Nassau) is a Bahamian triple jumper.
His personal best jump is 17.59 metres, achieved in 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. This is the current Bahamian record and won a bronze medal. He also won bronze medals ...
of the Bahamas. The
2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics
The 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Santiago, Chile between 17 and 22 October 2000.
Results
Men
Women
Medal table
Participation
According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, 1122 athle ...
was held in Chile that year and Castillo made his first world-level appearance and placed fourth, just outside the medal positions.
[Castillo, Victor]
IAAF
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. Retrieved on 2011-11-10.
Castillo gained eligibility to compete for the
Northern Arizona University
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...
Lumberjacks
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: he broke the school record for the long jump and was fourth at the
Drake Relays
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in 2003. He achieved his first success at senior level for Venezuela that year. He won the long jump title at the
2003 South American Championships in Athletics
The 2003 South American Championships in Athletics were held from June 20 to June 22 at the Polideportivo Máximo Viloria
in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Detailed day-by-day reports can be found on the IAAF website.
Medal summary
Men's even ...
held in
Barquisimeto
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, was fourth at the
CAC Championships, and jumped his best of the year at the
Pan American Games
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, taking the
bronze medal
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with a mark of 7.98 m. His senior global debut followed at the
2003 World Championships in Athletics
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Men's results
...
and he finished 11th in his qualifying round.
[
Castillo cleared eight metres twice in May 2004, first with a jump of 8.03 m in Mexico City and then a personal best and Venezuelan national record of 8.34 m in ]Cochabamba
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.[ He travelled to Europe and competed at top level meets, including ]Athletissima
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The first edition was held on 8 July 1977 in the Stade Pierre de Coubertin. In ...
, before going on to finish as runner-up at the 2004 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics
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behind Spain's Joan Lino Martínez
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Career
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. He made his first appearance at the Olympics at the 2004 Athens Games
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, where he finished eighth in his qualifier with a jump of 7.98 m but did not make the final.[ He represented the NAU Lumberjacks in the 2005 indoor season and broke two national indoor records, running 6.76 seconds for the ]60 metres
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and clearing 8.00 m for the long jump.[
In 2006 Castillo was found guilty of using ]furosemide
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, a banned diuretic
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and so-called masking agent. The sample containing the banned substance was delivered on 27 March 2006 in an out-of-competition test. He received an IAAF suspension from June 2006 to June 2008.
Following the expiration of his ban, he returned to competition in the 2009 season. He won the gold medal at the 2009 Bolivarian Games
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in November, jumping a season's best of 8.25 m, and also helped Venezuela's 4×100 metres relay team to a silver medal.[Victor Castillo]
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-11-10. He made few appearances in 2010, but returned to full competition the year after. He ran a 200 metres
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personal best of 21.13 seconds in May at the national championships, placing third in the sprint
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after winning the long jump title. A jump of 7.72 m brought him fourth place at the 2011 South American Championships in Athletics and a month later he represented Venezuela at the 2011 Military World Games
The 2011 Military World Games ( pt, Jogos Mundiais Militares de 2011), officially known as the 5th CISM Military World Games ( pt, V Jogos Mundiais Militares do CISM), was hosted from July 15–24, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The 5th Military ...
in Rio de Janeiro
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, where he took the bronze medal with a clearance of 7.81 m. With the wind right on the permissible limit, he had a jump of 8.03 m at the 2011 ALBA Games – a mark which earned him the gold medal. His season came to a peak at the 2011 Pan American Games
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in Guadalajara
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as he jumped 8.05 m (his third best ever) to secure the gold medal,[ becoming the second Venezuelan man to win an athletics gold at the competition (following Rafael Romero's 200 m win in 1963). Castillo came back at age 35 to jump 7.52m during the 2016 indoor season at a local meet in Elche, Spain.
The ]Venezuelan Olympic Committee
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.Supersport/SAPA AP (2011-11-10). Retrieved on 2011-11-10.
Personal bests
Outdoor
*100 metres: 10.44 s (wind: -1.1 m/s) – Caracas
, 9 October 2009
*200 metres: 21.22 s (wind: +0.3 m/s) – Caracas, 7 May 2011
*Long jump: 8.34 m A (wind: -1.2 m/s) – Cochabamba
Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa; qu, Quchapampa) is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and the fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 63 ...
, 30 May 2004
*Triple jump: 15.66 m (wind: +0.2 m/s) – Tempe, Arizona
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, 4 May 2003
Indoor
*60 metres: 6.76 m A – Flagstaff, Arizona
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, 19 February 2005
*Long jump: 8.00 m A – Flagstaff, Arizona
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, 5 February 2005
Achievements
See also
*List of doping cases in athletics
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People
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Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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References
External links
Tilastopaja biography
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1981 births
Living people
People from Carabobo
Venezuelan male long jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Venezuela
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Venezuela
Doping cases in athletics
Venezuelan sportspeople in doping cases
Northern Arizona Lumberjacks men's track and field athletes
Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games