Víctor Castillo

Who is Víctor Castillo?

Víctor Manuel Castillo Petit 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.