Hernán Figueroa

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{{short description|Chilean decathlete}}

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{{MedalSport | Men's athletics}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}

{{MedalGold| 1951 Buenos Aires | Decathlon}}

{{MedalBronze| 1955 Mexico City | Decathlon}}

{{MedalCompetition|South American Championships}}

{{MedalGold| 1952 Buenos Aires | Decathlon}}

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Hernán Figueroa Bueg (26 August 1927 – September 2013) was a decathlete from Chile.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66366 |title=Hernán Figueroa |work=Olympedia |access-date=18 March 2022}} He won the gold medal in the men's decathlon event at the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951. He is a two-time Olympian (1948 and 1952) for his native South American country. In the mid-1970s, he is credited with instigating development of the sport's division of Masters athletics, encouraging the formation of organizations across South America.{{Cite web|url=http://www.femachile.cl/index.php/institucion/femachi|title = Femachi – FEMACHI}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.mastersathletics.net/index.php?id=1875|title=Frederico Fischer|access-date=2 July 2014|archive-date=16 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016144116/http://www.mastersathletics.net/index.php?id=1875|url-status=dead}}