Antonio Fernández Fernández (born June 12, 1991) is a Spanish competitive

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. 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 Miguel Alvariño Garcia (born May 31, 1994, in As Pontes de García Rodríguez, Galicia) is an athlete from Spain, who competes in recurve archery. He found prominence as the winner of the men's individual archery Archery is the ...

obtained a silver medal in the men's team recurve final against Ukraine at the 2015 European Games in Baku,

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. He promptly followed the team archery results by helping the Spaniards secure a full quota spot for

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at the

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few months later in

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. 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 David Pasqualucci (born 27 June 1996) is an Italian competitive archer. He won a silver medal in the men's team recurve at the 2015 World Championships, and also competed as a member of Italy's archery squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He cur ...

(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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* * * Spanish male archers Living people People from Cáceres, Spain Sportspeople from the Province of Cáceres 1991 births Archers at the 2015 European Games European Games silver medalists for Spain European Games medalists in archery Olympic archers for Spain Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in archery Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games 21st-century Spanish people {{Spain-archery-bio-stub