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Antonio Fernández (archer)

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Country
  
Spain

Event(s)
  
Recurve

Coached by
  
Cho Hyung-mok

Weight
  
77 kg

Sport
  
Archery

Club
  
San Jorge de Cáceres

Height
  
1.86 m

Full name
  
Antonio Fernández Fernández

Born
  
12 June 1991 (age 25) (
1991-06-12
)
Cáceres, Spain

Antonio Fernández Fernández (born June 12, 1991) is a Spanish competitive archer. He won a silver medal as a member of the nation's archery squad at the 2015 European Games, and also collected two individual titles in a regional competition, spanning the European Grand Prix and the Mediterranean Games, both of which were held in 2013. Since his sporting debut as a teenager, Fernandez currently trains under the tutelage of his Korean-born coach Cho Hyung-mok for the Spanish team, while shooting at San Jorge de Cáceres.

Fernández rose to prominence in the international archery scene, when he and his compatriots Juan Ignacio Rodríguez and eventual individual champion Miguel Alvariño obtained a silver medal in the men's team recurve final against Ukraine at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. He promptly followed the team archery results by helping the Spaniards secure a full quota spot for Rio 2016 at the World Championships few months later in Copenhagen, Denmark, booking his country's maiden appearance in an Olympic archery competition since 1992.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Fernández was selected to compete for Spain in both individual and team recurve tournaments. First, he amassed a total of 1,986 points to hand the Spanish trio an eighth overall spot in the ranking round, along with his individual score of 657 as the thirty-fifth seed heading to the knockout stage. In the men's team recurve, Fernández and his compatriots Rodríguez and Alvariño bowed out to the Dutchmen in the opening round of the tournament, conceding a slick 1–5 defeat. Few days later, in the men's individual recurve, Fernández avenged his team's early exit by dispatching Chinese Taipei's Kao Hao-wen (6–0) and Italy's no. 3 seed David Pasqualucci (6–2) through the opening rounds, before he was beaten with a 3–7 score by Australia's eventual quarterfinalist Taylor Worth in his succeeding match.

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