Juan Carlos Stevens Explained

Juan Carlos Stevens
Birth Place:Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
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Juan Carlos Stevens (born October 22, 1968, in Santiago de Cuba) is an athlete from Cuba, who competes in archery.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Stevens finished his ranking round with a total of 659 points, which made him the 28th seed for the final competition bracket. He faced Calvin Hartley in the first round, where he beat the archer from South Africa. Both archers scored 107 points in the regular match, but in the extra round Stevens scored 19 points and Hartley scored 18 points. Stevens went on to reach the quarter-finals by beating Alexandru Bodnar (108-101) and Alan Wills (108-104). In the quarter-finals he also scored 108 points, but his opponent Park Kyung-Mo did the same and they had to go into the extra round which the South Korean won with 19–17.[1]

2012 Summer Olympics

At the 2012 Summer Olympics Stevens faced India's Tarundeep Rai in the first round, losing 6–5.[2]

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20080902003130/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/4/241254.shtml Athlete biography: Juan Carlos Stevens
  2. Web site: Men's Individual Archery. 30 July 2014. www.olympic.org. IOC.