Carlos Julio Flores

Carlos Julio Flores Pérez[a] (born 27 October 1980) is a Venezuelan former windsurfer, who specializes in Mistral and Neil Pryde RS:X classes.

[1] He represented his country Venezuela in two editions of the Summer Olympic Games (2004 and 2008), finishing in the top thirty respectively in two different sailboards.

[2] A member of Centro de Vela Ligera in 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.

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.

[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.