[2] Since his sporting debut as a teenager, Fernandez currently trains under the tutelage of his Korean-born coach Cho Hyung-mok for the Spanish team, while shooting at San Jorge de Cáceres.

[3] Fernández rose to prominence in the international archery scene, when he and his compatriots Juan Ignacio Rodríguez and eventual individual champion Miguel Alvariño obtained a silver medal in the men's team recurve final against Ukraine at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.

[4] He promptly followed the team archery results by helping the Spaniards secure a full quota spot for Rio 2016 at the World Championships few months later in Copenhagen, Denmark.

[2] First, he amassed a total of 1,986 points to hand the Spanish trio an eighth overall spot in the ranking round, along with his individual score of 657 as the thirty-fifth seed heading to the knockout stage.

[7] Few days later, in the men's individual recurve, Fernández avenged his team's early exit by dispatching Chinese Taipei's Kao Hao-wen (6–0) and Italy's no.