Alessio Foconi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born (1989-11-22) 22 November 1989 (age 36)
Rome, Italy
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
SportFencing
Alessio Foconi
Foconi in 2015
Personal information
Born (1989-11-22) 22 November 1989 (age 36)
Rome, Italy
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Fencing career
SportFencing
CountryItaly
WeaponFoil
Handright-handed
National coachAndrea Cipressa
ClubCS Terni / CS Aeronautica Militare
Head coachGiulio Tomassini
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Men's foil
Representing  Italy
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2024 ParisTeam
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 LeipzigTeam
Gold medal – first place2018 WuxiIndividual
Gold medal – first place2018 WuxiTeam
Gold medal – first place2022 CairoTeam
Gold medal – first place2025 TbilisiTeam
Bronze medal – third place2019 BudapestTeam
European Games
Gold medal – first place2015 BakuIndividual
Gold medal – first place2023 Kraków–MałopolskaTeam
Silver medal – second place2015 BakuTeam
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 DüsseldorfIndividual
Gold medal – first place2022 AntalyaTeam
Gold medal – first place2023 KrakówTeam
Gold medal – first place2025 GenoaTeam
Silver medal – second place2018 Novi SadTeam
Silver medal – second place2024 BaselIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2017 TbilisiTeam
Bronze medal – third place2019 DüsseldorfTeam
Bronze medal – third place2024 BaselTeam

Alessio Foconi (born 22 November 1989) is an Italian right-handed foil fencer and 2021 Olympian.

Foconi is a 2022 team European champion, 2019 individual European champion, four-time team world champion, and 2018 individual world champion.[1]

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

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 countryman 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

References

Related Articles

Wikiwand AI