Enrique Figuerola

Enrique Figuerola
1961 at the evening sports festival in Potsdam
Full name	Enrique Figuerola Camué
nation	Cuba
birthday	July 15, 1938
place of birth	Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
size	167 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.0 s June 17, 1967 in Budapest
status	unknown
End of career	1968
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 2 × 0 × Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver 1964 Tokyo 100 m silver 1968 Mexico City 4 × 100 m Pan American Games bronze 1959 Chicago 100 m gold 1963 São Paulo 100 m
last change: August 15, 2012

Enrique Figuerola Camué (born July 15, 1938 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a former Cuban athlete and Olympic participant.

His first appearance at a global event took place at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where he finished fourth in the 100-meter run in 10.3 seconds , at the same time as third-placed British Peter Radford . In 1963 Figuerola won the Pan American Games in São Paulo .

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, he won the silver medal over 100 m, behind the American Bob Hayes and ahead of the Canadian Harry Jerome . On June 17, 1967, Figuerola ran 10.0 seconds in Budapest's Népstadion , setting the 100-meter world record. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he was eliminated in the semifinals; with his teammates Hermes Ramírez , Juan Morales and Pablo Montes , he won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay behind the team from the USA and in front of the team from France.

Figuerola was the Cuban champion in the 100-meter run and the 200-meter run from 1958 to 1964 and again in 1967. He is 1.67 m tall and weighed 67 kg during his playing days.

literature

• Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holder. 100m run, 200m / 220y run. Grevenbroich 2000

Web links

• Enrique Figuerola in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Enrique Figuerola in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)