Arles Castro

Arles Castro

Arles Castro (2013)
To person
Full name	Arles Antonio Castro Laverde
Date of birth	17th September 1979
nation	Colombia
discipline	Train , road
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Last updated: April 14, 2017

Arles Antonio Castro Laverde (born September 17, 1979 in Urrao ) is a former Colombian track and road cyclist. He was seven times Pan American champion in the disciplines of individual and team pursuit. and points race.

Arles Castro was 2003 Colombian vice-champion in the individual pursuit on the track . In the 2005 season he was successful in the team time trial of the Vuelta a El Salvador . In 2007 Castro won the gold medal in the team pursuit and in the points race at the Pan American Championships in Valencia . By 2015 he had won a total of eight Pan-American titles in track cycling, six of them in the team pursuit. In 2008 and 2012 Castro started with the Colombian four-way scull at the Olympic Games, which finished tenth in Beijing and eighth in London . Twice - 2011 and 2015 - he won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the Pan American Games .

successes

2005

• Team time trial Vuelta a El Salvador

2007

• Pan American champions - points race, team pursuit (with Carlos Alzate , Juan Pablo Forero and Jairo Pérez )

2009

• World Cup Cali - Team Pursuit (with Juan Esteban Arango , Edwin Ávila and Weimar Roldán )

2010

• Pan American champions - team pursuit (with Edwin Ávila , Weimar Roldán and Juan Pablo Suárez )

2011

• Pan American champions - single chase, team chase (with Juan Esteban Arango , Edwin Ávila and Weimar Roldán )
• Pan American Games - Team Pursuit (with Juan Esteban Arango , Edwin Ávila and Weimar Roldán )

2012

• Pan American Champions - Team Pursuit (with Juan Esteban Arango , Edwin Ávila and Weimar Roldán )

2014

• Pan American Champions - Team Pursuit (with Juan Molano , Jhonatan Restrepo and Brayan Sánchez )

2015

• Pan American Champions - Team Pursuit (with Fernando Gaviria , Jhonatan Restrepo and Juan Esteban Arango )
• Pan American Games - Team Pursuit (with Jordan Parra , Jhonatan Restrepo and Juan Esteban Arango )

Web links

• Arles Castro in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Arles Castro in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Arles Castro in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )