Raúl Ríos
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| Full name | Raúl Andrés Ríos de Choudens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Puerto Rico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
12 March 1993 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class(es) | Snipe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Boston College Eagles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Competition record
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Raúl Ríos (born December 3, 1993 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico), is the world class sailor in the Optimist, Snipe, and Lightning classes.
He began sailing Optimists at the age of ten at the Club Náutico de San Juan,[1] and became North American champion and World champion in 2008.[2]
From the Optimist class, he moved into the 420, Snipe and Lightning classes.[3] He started sailing in the Snipe Class by crewing for Ernesto Rodriguez just after summer of 2008, training for the Western Hemisphere’s championship in Uruguay that November where they finished third overall. He then took the skipper position, with Fernando Monllor from the Club Náutico de Ponce as a crew, competing in the US Nationals, the North Americans, the Western Hemisphere and Oriental Championship, the Pan American Games and the Central American and Caribbean Games.
His accomplishments in this class so far:
- US Nationals Champion (2013, 2014, 2015)
- North American Champion (2015)
- Western Hemisphere and Oriental Champion (2014)
Pan American Games
- 4th place in Snipe at Guadalajara 2011.
- 1st place in Snipe at Toronto 2015.
Central American and Caribbean Games
- 1st place in Snipe at Mayagüez 2010.
- 1st place in Snipe at Veracruz 2014.
College
Ríos sailed for Boston College, where he earned ICSA Coed All-American Honors, earned first team All-NEISA Skipper Honors, was named an All-America Skipper in May 2013 after helping the Coed team place fifth at the Nationals in St. Petersburg, Florida, won the B Division with teammate Patrick Hession at the Danmark Regatta, where the team placed second overall, helped the Eagles place 10th at the ICSA/APS Team Race National Championships on Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg, helped the Eagles place second at the Fowle Trophy Regatta in 2013, sailed with teammate Patrick Hession in the B Division, posting 90 points, as BC placed second at the NEISA Dinghy Championship in 2013, and was a member of the team that helped BC place second at the Friis & Marchiando Trophies.[4]