Brian Afanador

Brian Afanador
Full name Brian O'Neill Afanador Pérez
Nationality Puerto Rico
Residence Saarbrücken, Germany
Born (1997-03-06) March 6, 1997
Utuado, Puerto Rico
Equipment(s) Butterfly
Highest ranking 174 (March 2016)
Current ranking 201 (August 2016)
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight 150 lb (68 kg)

Brian O'Neill Afanador Pérez (born March 6, 1997) is a Puerto Rican table tennis player.[1]

On April 2, 2016, Afanador made history becoming the first Puerto Rican male table tennis player to qualify for an Olympics Games.[2] On June 3, 2016, Afanador upset number 10 seeded and number 44 in the International Table Tennis Federation world ranking Bojan Tokič at the 2016 ITTF Slovenia Open in Otočec, Slovenia.[3] He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics were he defeated Suraju Saka 4–3 in the preliminary round before losing to Omar Assar 4–2 in the second round.

Personal life

Afanador is the cousin of Adriana Díaz.

Achievements

References

  1. "Brian Afanador: Es un honor jugar en casa". ultm.org (in Spanish). Retrieved August 4, 2016.
  2. "Afanador consigue pase a los Juegos Olímpicos" (in Spanish). El Nuevo Día. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
  3. "Host Nation Disappointment, Pirate of the Caribbean Ends Slovenia Hopes". International Table Tennis Federation. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
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