Alexander Massialas

Alexander Massialas
Massialas at the 2015 World Fencing Championships
Personal information
Born	(1994-04-20) April 20, 1994 (age 27) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[1][2]
Weight	185 lb (84 kg)[1]
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil
Hand	right-handed
National coach	Greg Massialas
FIE ranking	No. 8 (Men's foil)[3][4]
Medal record Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team 2020 Tokyo Team World Championships 2019 Budapest Team 2013 Budapest Team 2015 Moscow Individual 2017 Leipzig Team 2018 Wuxi Team Pan American Fencing Championships 2011 Reno, Nevada Individual 2012 Cancún Individual 2014 San José Individual 2015 Santiago Individual 2010 San José Individual

Alexander Massialas (born April 20, 1994) is an American right-handed foil fencer.^[5]

Massialas is a two-time NCAA champion, ten-time team Pan American champion, 2016 individual Pan American champion and 2019 team world champion.

A three-time Olympian, Massialas is a 2016 individual Olympic silver medalist and two-time team Olympic bronze medalist.

Massialas competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.

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]

Medal Record[]

Olympic Games[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[13]
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Team Men's Foil	3rd[14]
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Men's Foil	3rd[15]

World Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2013	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	2nd[16]
2015	Moscow, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[17]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	2nd[18]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Foil	2nd[19]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	1st[20]

Pan American Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2009	San Salvador, El Salvador	Team Men's Foil	1st[21]
2010	San José, Costa Rica	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[22]
2010	San José, Costa Rica	Team Men's Foil	1st[23]
2011	Reno, Nevada	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[24]
2011	Reno, Nevada	Team Men's Foil	1st[25]
2012	Cancún, Mexico	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[26]
2012	Cancún, Mexico	Team Men's Foil	1st[27]
2013	Cartagena, Colombia	Team Men's Foil	1st[28]
2014	San José, Costa Rica	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[29]
2015	Santiago, Chile	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[30]
2015	Santiago, Chile	Team Men's Foil	1st[31]
2016	Panama City, Panama	Individual Men's Foil	1st[32]
2016	Panama City, Panama	Team Men's Foil	1st[33]
2017	Montreal, Canada	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[34]
2017	Montreal, Canada	Team Men's Foil	1st[35]
2018	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[36]
2018	Havana, Cuba	Team Men's Foil	1st[37]
2019	Toronto, Canada	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[38]
2019	Toronto, Canada	Team Men's Foil	1st[39]

Grand Prix[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
03/04/2013	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[40]
05/03/2014	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[41]
03/13/2015	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[42]
06/03/2016	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	1st[43]
12/02/2016	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[44]
03/17/2017	Long Beach, California	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[45]
12/01/2017	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	1st[46]
02/07/2020	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[47]

World Cup[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
05/29/2010	Montreal, Canada	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[48]
05/20/2011	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[49]
01/27/2012	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[50]
02/22/2013	A Coruña, Spain	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[51]
04/25/2014	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Men's Foil	1st[52]
01/16/2015	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[53]
11/06/2015	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	1st[54]
01/20/2017	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	1st[55]
02/09/2018	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[56]
03/01/2019	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[57]
02/21/2020	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[58]

See also[]

• List of USFA Division I National Champions

References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alexander Massialas.

External links[]

• Alexander Massialas at the International Fencing Federation
• Alexander Massialas at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee
• Alexander Massialas at the International Olympic Committee
• Alexander Massialas at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

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