Brian Afanador


Brian O'Neill Afanador Pérez 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 the Olympic 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 where he defeated Suraju Saka 4–3 in the preliminary round before losing to Omar Assar 4–2 in the second round.
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Clubs

  • TTC indeland Jülich
  • 4S Tours TT

Personal life

Afanador was born on March 6, 1997, and has one younger brother. He is the cousin of the table tennis Díaz sisters, Adriana, Melanie, Fabiola, and Gabriela.
On August 23, 2020, Afanador announced he and his partner Noralis Soé Ruiz Lugo, a public relations professional, were expecting their first child together. On September 25, they announced they were expecting a girl who was born on December 20, 2020, and named Antonella Isabelle. Afanador and Ruiz married in February 2023. They currently reside in Montpellier, France.

Achievements