The beginnings of Andrés Temiño in archery
Andrés Temiño is a born archer because, as he tells Olympics.com, he began following in his father’s footsteps. “He started practicing archery when I was born and when I was two years old I was already shooting,” he says.
Mentor and teacher because, for many years, his father also served as a coach.
In those first steps, Andrés Temiño had two idols: the American Brady Ellisonfive-time Olympic medalist, and Yesterday Jin, Jinconsidered by some to be one of the greatest in history.
“When I started archery, they were the two at the top. In the end, a six-year-old child dreams of that and they were the ones who achieved it,” he explains simply to Olympics.com.
Reviewing Kim’s record is an invitation to dizziness: five-time Olympic champion (once individually, once in mixed and three times as a team); seven-time world champion (three in individual); 66 medals in the World Cup, of which 38 are gold…
That’s how big children dream.
Andrés Temiño and Elia Canales had all of this in front of them in the mixed team final of this 2025 Archery World Cup. All that and more, because their partner was An Santriple Olympic champion in Tokyo 2020, and they competed at home, in the Republic of Korea.
His pulse did not tremble to defeat his idol as he did not tremble to defeat the Brazilian Marcus D’Almeida in the tiebreaker of the individual final. The key, simple but difficult.
“It was above all believing in myself, in my shot. Having the confidence that I could achieve a very good result,” Temiño explains to Olympics.com after winning his second gold medal.
“But above all, knowing that I have the level. Being calm about that, because I know that if I give my 100% it can happen. If it doesn’t happen, I will continue working to make it happen. But this time it happened. I gave my 100% and I became world champion.”
