Crispin Duenas

Crispin Duenas
Personal information
Nationality Canadian
Born January 3, 1986
North York, Ontario
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport Archery
Updated on July 2012.

Crispin Duenas (born January 5, 1986 in North York, Ontario, grew up in Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian recurve archer who represented Canada at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

He is one of Canada's top male archers with a successful international career as both a cadet and junior. He is a physics major at the University of Toronto.[1]

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Duenas finished his ranking round with a total of 664 points. This gave him the 16th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Magnus Petersson in the first round. Both scored 108 points in the regular match and they had to go to an extra round. In this extra round Duenas scored 18 points, while Petersson advanced to the second round with 19 points.[2]

Together with John-David Burns and Jay Lyon he also took part in the team event. With his 664 score from the ranking round combined with the 644 of Burns and the 646 of Lyon the Canadians were in 11th position after the ranking round. In the first round they were beaten by the Italian team 219-217. Italy would go on to reach the final and win the silver medal.[2]

Accomplishments

2007

2008

2009

2013

2014

Interviews

External links

References

  1. Damjanovic, Jelena (2014-11-25). "Olympic archer Crispin Duenas on the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games". U of T News.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Athlete biography: Crispin Duenas, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 17 2008