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{{Short description|Puerto Rican artistic gymnast (born 1972)}}
{{family name hatnote|Colon|Ortíz|lang=Spanish}}
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| full_name       = Víctor Colon Ortíz
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{{MedalCompetition|[[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1992 Paris]]|Vault}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1995 Pan American Games|1995 Mar del Plata]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1995 Pan American Games|Horizontal Bar]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1991 Pan American Games|1991 Havana]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1991 Pan American Games|Vault]]}} 
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'''Victor Colon Ortíz''' (born March 16, 1972) was the first [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rica]]n [[gymnast]] to obtain a medal in this sport in a world competition. He won a bronze medal with a score of 9.581 for the vault event in the 1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He was also the first Puerto Rican gymnast to complete in an Olympic Games, at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in [[Barcelona]].

Colon won medals at the [[1991 Pan American Games]] and the [[1995 Pan American Games]].

==References==
* {{FIG|bio=21870|name=Victor Colon}}

==External links==
* {{Olympics.com|victor-colon}}
* {{SR/Olympics profile|co/victor-colon-1|archive=20161203014732}}

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[[Category:1972 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Bayamón, Puerto Rico]]
[[Category:Puerto Rican male artistic gymnasts]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 1992 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic gymnasts for Puerto Rico]]
[[Category:Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 1991 Pan American Games]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 1995 Pan American Games]]
[[Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for Puerto Rico]]
[[Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists for Puerto Rico]]
[[Category:Pan American Games silver medalists in gymnastics]]
[[Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists in gymnastics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games]]
[[Category:20th-century Puerto Rican people]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportsmen]]


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