Competitions
Among the other competitions in which Figueroa has participated are:
- In 1985, Hobie 14 Worlds in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico where he won 1st place and
- In 1986, 6th Hobie 16 Worlds in Suva, Fiji where he took 2nd place.
In 1994, Figueroa won the IYRU World Sailing Championship title. He met and married Carla Malatrosi, a sportswoman from Puerto Rico who also loves sailing. In 1999, Figueroa and his wife won a gold medal in sailing in the Pan Am Hobie competition celebrated in Winnipeg, Canada. Figueroa competed in the 2000 Olympic Games held in Sydney, Australia without his wife. She stayed behind to give birth to the first of their two daughters, Isabella Victoria. In 2002, Figueroa and his wife came in 3rd place in the Hobie Racing-ISAF Sailing Games H-16 which took place in Marseille, France in which they went against 36 teams representing 20 nations.
On February 2, 2004, Figueroa and teammate Jorge Hernández, won the Olympic Games Rolex Regatta; they were named champions by beating twenty-nine entries in the tornado fleet. The regatta winners had their sights set on the 2004 Olympics and Partalympic Games in Athens, Greece. 503 sailors participated with a fleet of 323 boats representing 39 nations. Figueroa went to the 2004 Olympic Games and represented Puerto Rico at the Olympics for the fourth time.
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