Brian Afanador

Brian O'Neill Afanador Pérez (* 6. March 1997 in Utuado ) is a Puerto Rican table tennis player . On April 2, 2016, Afanador made history as he became the first Puerto Rican player to qualify for the Olympics , where he appeared with his cousin Adriana Díaz . He is right-handed, attacking player and uses the European shakehand stick stance. He is currently under contract with Butterfly .

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he defeated Suraju Saka (Congo) in the preliminary round, and lost to the Egyptian Omar Assar in the first main round and was eliminated.

In the 2017/18 season, Brian Afanador played with the German club TTC indeland Jülich in the 2nd Bundesliga, after which he moved to France.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
PRI	Pan American Championship	2019	Asunción	PAR	last 16
PRI	Pan American Championship	2018	Lima	BY	Quarter finals	Semifinals	gold	3
PRI	Pan American Games	2019	Lima	BY	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Semifinals	Quarter finals
PRI	Latin American Championship	2016	San Juan	PRI	gold	silver	Semifinals	3
PRI	Latin American Championship	2015	Buenos Aires	ARG	Quarter finals	Semifinals	silver	3
PRI	Latin American Championship	2014	Santo Domingo	DOM	Semifinals	Quarter finals	last 16	2
PRI	Panamerica Cup	2020	Guaynabo	PURE	Quarter finals
PRI	Panamerica Cup	2019	Guaynabo	PURE	Quarter finals
PRI	Panamerica Cup	2018	Asunción	PAR	Agony
PRI	Latin America Cup	2015	Havana	CUB	last 16
PRI	Olympic games	2016	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	immediately canceled
PRI	Challenge Series	2020	Lisbon	POR	last 64	last 16
PRI	Challenge Series	2019	Władysławowo	POLE	last 64
PRI	Challenge Series	2019	Asunción	PRY	Quarter finals	gold
PRI	Challenge Series	2019	Zagreb	HRV	last 32	last 32
PRI	Challenge Series	2019	Otočec	SVN	last 32	last 16
PRI	Challenge Series	2019	Belgrade	SRB	Semifinals	Quarter finals
PRI	Challenge Series	2018	De Haan	BEL	last 32	last 64
PRI	ITTF World Tour	2020	Budapest	HUN	last 128	last 16
PRI	ITTF World Tour	2019	Linz	AUT	last 128
PRI	ITTF World Tour	2019	Busan	COR	last 64	last 16
PRI	ITTF World Tour	2018	Doha	QAT	Agony
PRI	ITTF World Tour	2018	Bremen	GER	Agony
PRI	ITTF World Tour	2017	Magdeburg	GER	Agony
PRI	ITTF World Tour	2016	Stockholm	SWE	last 32
PRI	World Championship	2019	Budapest	HUN	last 128	last 32
PRI	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				45
PRI	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	last 128	last 64
PRI	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				29
PRI	World Championship	2014	Tokyo	JPN				36
PRI	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				44

Web links

• Brian Afanador on the website of the World Table Tennis Association (ittf.com) (accessed on July 29, 2020)
• Player profile on olympic.org (English)
• Brian Afanador in the sports-reference database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Afanador Brian: video, ranking. Retrieved July 29, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Afanador consigue pase a los Juegos Olímpicos. Retrieved July 29, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Brian Afanador - Butterfly North America Table Tennis Player. Retrieved July 29, 2020 . 
4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2017/8 page 22
5. ↑ Johannes Eickhoff: JÜLICH OBLICHTET KLEIN Article from May 3, 2018 (accessed on July 30, 2020)
6. ↑ Brian Afanador, le conquistador article from September 20, 2018 (accessed July 30, 2020)