Charles Fernandez

Charles Fernández (born 28 December 1995) is a Guatemalan modern pentathlete. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's event and finished fifteenth. Fernandez won the men's modern pentathlon at the 2015 Pan American Games. He also won a gold medal at the World Junior Championships.

Charles Fernandez grew up in Guatemala, in a multicultural family with an Ecuadorian mother and Guatemalan father. He did his middle school and part of high school in the Christian Academy of Guatemala, later changing to homeschooling to focus more on his sport activities. Charles later attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. His best discipline was the fencing where he scored the most points out of all the competitors. Later in 2015 was the 2015 Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne World Junior Championships, where Fernandez finished fourth. On 18 August 2016 Fernandez competed in the men's event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and finished 15th. At the event held in Cairo, Egypt, Fernandez scored 1429 points and beat South Korean Jun Woong-tae by eleven points.

Two years later, in 2018, Charles Fernandez represented his country in the Central American Caribbean Games held in Barranquilla, Colombia where he finished with a sensational performance achieving 2 gold medals in the individual event and the mix relay event. Fernandez was later appointed by IOC president, Thomas Bach, as an Athlete Role Model in the Youth Olympic Games held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2018.