{{short description|Filipino taekwondo practitioner and coach|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Stephen Fernandez''' is a Filipino taekwondo practitioner and coach. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona where he won a bronze medal in taekwondo, considered a demonstration event for that edition.<ref>{{cite web |title=Profile: Stephen FERNANDEZ |url=https://www.olympic.org/stephen-fernandez |website=Olympics |publisher=International Olympic Committee |accessdate=January 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Monsour del Rosario, Olympian Stephen Fernandez expected to grace DELTA's 40th year |url=https://www.foxsports.ph/other-sports/taekwondo/979992/monsour-del-rosario-olympian-stephen-fernandez-expected-to-grace-deltas-40th-year/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209040027/https://www.foxsports.ph/other-sports/taekwondo/979992/monsour-del-rosario-olympian-stephen-fernandez-expected-to-grace-deltas-40th-year/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 9, 2019 |accessdate=January 17, 2020 |work=Fox Sports |date=February 15, 2019}}</ref>

Fernandez was the senior Deputy Chef de Mission for the Philippine delegation at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.<ref>{{cite news |author1=From the wires |title=Taekwondo's Stephen Fernandez named Sr Deputy Chef de Mission for SEAG |url=https://www.spin.ph/multisport/sea-games/ada-milby-and-stephen-fernandez-named-deputy-chefs-de-mission-of-team-philippines-a1373-20190704 |accessdate=January 17, 2020 |work=Sports Interactive Network Philippines |date=July 4, 2019}}</ref> He is the Deputy Secretary General, as well, of the Philippine Taekwondo Association. He was a coach for the taekwondo team of the De La Salle University for 24 years.<ref name=dlsusports>{{cite web |title="It's fantastic" – Coach Stephen Fernandez on his 24-year coaching stint |url=http://dlsusports.com/its-fantastic-coach-stephen-fernandez-24-year-coaching-stint/ |website=DLSU Sports |date=20 August 2013 |accessdate=January 17, 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117020435/http://dlsusports.com/its-fantastic-coach-stephen-fernandez-24-year-coaching-stint/ |archivedate=January 17, 2020}}</ref>

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