Enrique Figuerola

1961 the evening sports festival in Potsdam

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

His first appearance at a global event took place at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, where he finished in 10.3 seconds in fourth place in the 100 -meter run, coinciding with the third-placed Brits Peter Radford. Figuerola 1963 won at the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, he won the silver medal over 100 meters, behind the Americans Bob Hayes and before the Canadian Harry Jerome. On June 17, 1967 Figuerola ran in Budapest Népstadion 10.0 seconds and placed so that one of the 100 -meter world record. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he left in semis; 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 ahead of the team from France.

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