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We prove that characteristic Sturmian words are extremal for the Critical Factorization Theorem (CFT) in the following sense. If p"x(n) denotes the local period of an infinite word x at point n, we prove that x is a characteristic Sturmian word if and only if p"x(n) is smaller than or equal to n+1 for all n=1 and it is equal to n+1 for infinitely many integers n. This result is extremal with respect to the CFT since a consequence of the CFT is that, for any infinite recurrent word x, either the function p"x is bounded, and in such a case x is periodic, or p"x(n)=n+1 for infinitely many integers n. As a byproduct of the techniques used in the paper we extend a result of Harju and Nowotka (2002) in [18] stating that any finite Fibonacci word f"n,n=5, has only one critical point. Indeed we determine the exact number of critical points in any finite standard Sturmian word.