Víctor Castillo

Víctor Castillo

Castillo at the 2011 Military World Games
Personal information
Full name	Víctor Manuel Castillo Petit
Born	(1981-06-08) June 8, 1981 (age 35) San Joaquín, Carabobo, Venezuela
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	79 kg (174 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Club	NAU Lumberjacks (USA)
Medal record Representing  Venezuela Pan American Games 2003 Santo Domingo Long jump Disqualified 2011 Guadalajara Long jump Bolivarian Games 2009 Sucre Long jump 2009 Sucre 4×100 m Military World Games 2011 Rio de Janeiro Long jump South American Championships 2003 Barquisimeto Long jump CAC Junior Championships (U20) 2000 San Juan Long jump
Updated on 29 June 2013.

Víctor Manuel Castillo Petit (born 8 June 1981) is a Venezuelan track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump. His personal best jump is 8.34 metres, a Venezuelan record achieved in May 2004 in Cochabamba. He received a lifetime ban from athletics after testing positive for banned substances in 2011, having already served a two-year doping suspension from 2006.

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, he took the bronze medal. Castillo appeared at the World Championships in Athletics that year and later represented his country at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

After being banned from 2006 to 2008, he returned to win the long jump title at the Bolivarian Games. He was the bronze medallist at the 2011 Military World Games then won the gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games. However, he failed a drugs test for a second time at the latter event and was stripped of his title.

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 at the 2000 event, beating Brazil's Thiago Dias. At the more competitive 2000 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics he came third with a wind-assisted mark of 7.77 m, finishing behind Leevan Sands of the Bahamas. The 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Chile that year and Castillo made his first world-level appearance and placed fourth, just outside the medal positions.