Brian Afanador | |
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Full name | Brian O'Neill Afanador Pérez |
Nationality | Puerto Rico |
Residence | Saarbrücken, Germany |
Born |
Utuado, Puerto Rico |
March 6, 1997
Highest ranking | 174 (March 2016) |
Current ranking | 199 (March 2017) |
Club | TTC Jülich |
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.
On April 2, 2016, Afanador made history becoming the first Puerto Rican male table tennis player to qualify for an Olympics Games. 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. 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.
Afanador is the cousin of Adriana Díaz.