Ask three-time Olympic rower Jaime Fernandez to pinpoint a career highlight on the water, and the 50-year-old pauses briefly before offering three distinct answers.
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There's the obvious - competing at a home Olympics in Sydney, and winning a silver medal in front of a raucous home crowd.
Eight years earlier there was the moment where Fernandez walked into an Olympic stadium for the first time in Spain, the country where his father was born and bred before migrating to Australia.
Then there's a third highlight which emerges from a career littered with long-term success, and which makes up part of the sturdy foundation underlying why Fernandez now happily calls this region home.
"It would be remiss of me not to mention winning the King's Cup in 1997 with the ACT," Fernandez said.
"It broke something like an 11-year run for Victoria winning the event in a row. We were a ragtag band of guys all coming together and the ACT only just had recently entered the event, and we've only won it that one time.
"Those guys I rode with in that crew were just fabulous and that was a wonderful result too.
"The First battalion [Australian Imperial Force] won the King's Cup trophy from King George at the time, following the first World War in 1919.
"So that trophy was then given to Australia. It became the perpetual trophy for that event every year at the interstate regatta."
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Fernandez will join Edward Palubinskas, Phil Lynch and Ben Gathercole next month as the latest inductees into the ACT Sport Hall of Fame.
For Fernandez, who now calls Murrumbateman home, it caps a remarkable journey which began in the Northern Territory and took him to the AIS. In retirement, Fernandez is now the deputy national performance director at Rowing Australia.
He lived in the mining town of Nhulunbuy on the Gove Peninsula until he was 15, before moving to Adelaide.
In his latter high school years he took up rowing, and instantly demonstrated an elite ability on the water which was quickly noticed by the AIS where he became part of the golden generation of rowing which defined the sport in Australia.
His fifth-placed finish in the final of the men's eights at the Barcelona Olympics was followed by a sixth placing in Atlanta four years later. The Oarsome Foursome won gold in the coxless fours at both of those Olympics.
In 2000 before a home crowd, Fernandez and the men's eights won a silver medal.
"If you actually look at the stats, very few people get the privilege that I've had, and that's to represent your country at an Olympic Games once," Fernandez said.
"To do so in your own home country in front of family and friends is incredibly unique. To then be successful and win a medal is again like taking it to another level.
"Sydney was significant for me too because many of the men in the boat, I'd known for most of my adult life at that point. We'd grown up together. We'd competed at other Olympics and World Championships together, it was a body of work that had spanned 10 years to get to that point.
"It was a really fabulous period, lots of depth, lots of young people growing up together in the sport."