Carlos Julio Flores

Carlos Julio Flores
Personal information
Full name	Carlos Julio Flores Pérez
Nationality	Sailboard
Club	Centro de Vela Ligera
Coach	Christian Larte

Carlos Julio Flores Pérez

Anzoategui, along with his younger brother and eventual two-time Olympian Daniel

, Flores trained for the country's sailing federation under the tutelage of his personal coach Christian Larte.

Flores made his Olympic debut in

Athens 2004, sailing in the men's Mistral class. There, he accumulated a net grade of 232 points to obtain a lowly twenty-fifth overall position from a 34-man fleet at the end of the eleven-race series.^[2]^[3]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Flores qualified for his second Venezuelan team in the inaugural RS:X class.^[4] Building up to his Olympic selection, he finished eighteenth out of 50 windsurfers in the silver fleet to grab the last of the nine quota spots available at the class-associated Worlds seven months earlier in Auckland, New Zealand.^[2]^[5] Flores stormed out from behind to cross the top-fifteen mark on the final leg of the ten-race series, but it was not enough to put him through to the final, ending his Olympic quest in twenty-ninth overall with 232 net points.^[6]

Notes

Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Flores and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carlos Julio Flores". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Beijing 2008: Velerismo da nuevo cupo olímpico a Venezuela" [Beijing 2008: Sailing gives a new quota to Venezuela] (in Spanish). People's Daily. 21 January 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2020.

Athens 2004. BBC Sport
. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

^ "Venezuela viajará con 109 atletas a Beijing" [Venezuela will send 109 athletes to Beijing] (in Spanish). ESPN Deportes. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2020.

^ "Down To The Wire At RS:X Worlds". World Sailing. 18 January 2008. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

NBC Olympics. Archived from the original
on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2013.

External links

Carlos Flores at World Sailing

Carlos Julio Flores at
Olympedia

Carlos Julio Flores Perez at Olympics.com
Carlos Julio Flores Perez at OlympicChannel.com (archived)

Carlos Julio Flores Perez at the NBC 2008 Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 July 2012)

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[1] Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Flores and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.

[2] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carlos Julio Flores". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.

[flores-oly-3] "Beijing 2008: Velerismo da nuevo cupo olímpico a Venezuela" [Beijing 2008: Sailing gives a new quota to Venezuela] (in Spanish). People's Daily. 21 January 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2020.

[4] Athens 2004. BBC Sport
. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

[5] "Venezuela viajará con 109 atletas a Beijing" [Venezuela will send 109 athletes to Beijing] (in Spanish). ESPN Deportes. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2020.

[6] "Down To The Wire At RS:X Worlds". World Sailing. 18 January 2008. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

[7] NBC Olympics. Archived from the original
on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2013.

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