Alessio Foconi

Alessio Foconi
Personal information
Born	(1989-11-22) 22 November 1989 (age 32) Rome, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil
Hand	right-handed
National coach	Andrea Cipressa
Club	CS Terni / CS Aeronautica Militare
Head coach	Giulio Tomassini
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record World Championships 2017 Leipzig Team foil 2018 Wuxi Individual foil 2018 Wuxi Team foil 2019 Budapest Team foil European Games 2015 Baku Individual foil 2015 Baku Team foil European Championships 2019 Düsseldorf Individual foil 2018 Novi Sad Team foil 2017 Tbilisi Team foil 2019 Düsseldorf Team foil

Alessio Foconi (born 22 November 1989) is an Italian right-handed foil fencer, 2019 individual European champion, two-time team world champion, and 2018 individual world champion.^[1]

Career[]

Born in Rome, Foconi took up fencing in Terni, Umbria. He was coached in his formative years by Filippo Romagnoli and Giulio Tomassini.

In 2008 he created an upset at the Espinho World Cup after defeating Renal Ganeyev, Ruslan Nasibulin and Choi Byung-chul. He was stopped in the semifinals by fellow countryma and team Olympic champion Simone Vanni and came away with a bronze medal.^[2] The next year he won a team bronze medal at the Junior European Championships in Amsterdam and an individual bronze and a team gold at the Junior World Championships in Belfast.

In 2010–11 he took another World Cup bronze, this time at the Shanghai Grand Prix, and finished the season 25th in the world rankings. He did not qualify to the 2012 Summer Olympics, but maintained his Top 25 ranking. In 2013 he won the Italian championship after defeating Valerio Aspromonte in the final.^[3]

In the 2014–15 season Foconi bounced back in the World Cup circuit by posting a quarter-final finish in the Paris World Cup,^[4] then a bronze medal in the Löwe von Bonn.^[5]

Medal Record[]

World Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st[6]
2018	Wuxi, China	Individual Men's Foil	1st[7]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Foil	1st[8]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	3rd[9]

European Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Foil	3rd[10]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Men's Foil	2nd[11]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	1st[12]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Foil	3rd[13]

Grand Prix[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
05/09/2011	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[14]
06/03/2016	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[15]
12/02/2016	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	1st[16]
05/19/2017	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[17]
12/01/2017	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[18]
02/08/2019	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[19]
03/15/2019	Anaheim, California	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[20]
05/17/2019	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	1st[21]

World Cup[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
03/15/2008	Espinho, Portugal	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[22]
02/06/2015	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[23]
10/21/2016	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[24]
10/20/2017	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[25]
01/19/2018	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	1st[26]
05/04/2018	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[27]
01/11/2019	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	1st[28]
01/25/2019	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[29]
05/03/2019	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[30]
11/08/2019	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[31]
12/13/2019	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	1st[32]
02/21/2020	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[33]

References[]

External links[]

• Alessio Foconi at the International Fencing Federation
• Alessio Foconi at the European Fencing Confederation (archive)