{{Short description|Puerto Rican artistic gymnast (born 1972)}} {{family name hatnote|Colon|Ortíz|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox gymnast | name = Victor Colon | image = | image_size = | caption = | full_name = Víctor Colon Ortíz | altname = | nickname = Peke papito | country = {{GYM National Team|PUR|MAG}} | formercountry = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|03|16}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = 173 cm | discipline = MAG | level = | natlteam = | club = | gym = | collegeteam = | headcoach = | assistcoach = | formercoach = | choreographer = | music = | eponymousskills = | retired = 1995 | medaltemplates = <!-- see Template:MedalRelatedTemplates --> {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalBronze|1992 Paris|Vault}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}} {{MedalSilver|1995 Mar del Plata|Horizontal Bar}} {{MedalBronze|1991 Havana|Vault}} }}
'''Victor Colon Ortíz''' (born March 16, 1972) was the first Puerto Rican 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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