Raúl Ríos

Raúl Andrés Ríos de Choudens (born 3 December 1993 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico), is a 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, and became North American champion and World champion in 2008.

From the Optimist class, he moved into the 420, Snipe and Lightning classes. 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.

He won the following regattas: * United States National Championship (2013, 2014, 2015) * North American Championship (2011, 2012, 2015, 2022) * Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship (2014) * South American Championship (2023)

In 2017, he won another world championship, the Snipe class Worlds, with Max Agnese as his crew, in Corunna, the bronze medal at the Lightning Southamericans, and World Championship at Salinas Yacht Club, with Sebastian Higuera and Nicolas Deeb. Provided by Wikipedia