Alexander Massialas

Alexander Massialas (born April 20, 1994) is an American foil fencer, team silver medallist in the 2014 World Fencing Championships.[5] At the 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's foil and earned a silver medal; he also earned a bronze medal in Men's team foil.

Alexander Massialas
Personal information
Born (1994-04-20) April 20, 1994
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Height6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[1][2]
Weight185 lb (84 kg)[1]
Sport
CountryUnited States
SportFencing
WeaponFoil
Handright-handed
National coachGreg Massialas
FIE rankingNo. 8 (Men's foil)[3][4]

Biography

Massialas was born in San Francisco, California,[6] to a father of Greek descent and a Taiwanese mother.[7] His father, Greg Massialas, fenced for the United States in the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics, and currently coaches the American national foil team. His sister, Sabrina, is also a high-level foil fencer. Despite this, Massialas was never pushed into fencing. After he showed spontaneous interest at an early age, his father made him wait until he was seven years old to begin training.[8]

An athletic child, Massialas played soccer and made the basketball and the swimming teams at Drew School. He enrolled at Stanford University on a fencing scholarship in the fall of 2012.[9] He closed his freshman season by winning the 2013 NCAA title in individual men's foil.[10] He repeated this feat in 2015, after falling to David Willette in 2014's semifinal round.[11][12]

References
  1. http://www.usfencing.org/page/show/2513964-alexander-massialas
  2. http://www.usfencing.org/page/show/707550-alexander-massialas
  3. http://fie.org/fencers/Alexander-MASSIALAS-21958
  4. http://fie.org/fencers/fencer/21958
  5. "Alexander Massialas". London 2012. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on April 4, 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2012.
  6. "Alexander Massialas". TeamUSA.org. United States Olympic Committee.
  7. "Young Fencer Alexander Massialas Carries on His Father's Dream". New America Media. July 24, 2012. Archived from the original on April 2, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  8. Vytas Mazeika (October 16, 2014). "Fencing: Stanford's Massialas to take on the world". San José Mercury News.
  9. David Pollak (July 21, 2012). "San Francisco teen Alexander Massialas makes mark on U.S. Olympic fencing team". San José Mercury News.
  10. "Massialas bounces back". NCAA.com. October 24, 2013. Archived from the original on July 27, 2018. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  11. "2014 NCAA Results". NCAA. 2014. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
  12. "2015 NCAA Results". NCAA. 2015. Archived from the original on January 31, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016.


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