Alessandro Emanuele "Alex" Treves (January 14, 1929 – December 12, 2020) was an Italian-born American Olympic fencer. Treves was born in

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, and is Jewish.Bob Wechsler
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Jews In Sports. He later lived in New York City.

Career

Treves fenced for Salle Santelli. He fenced for

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

(class of 1950), and won the

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(NCAA) saber title in both 1949 and 1950. Treves was undefeated in three years of competing in college. He competed for the United States at the

1950 Maccabiah Games The 3rd Maccabiah ( he, המכביה השלישית) took place during Sukkot from September 27 to October 8, 1950, with 17 countries competing. It was the third edition of the Maccabiah Games and the first held since the independence of the State ...

. Treves competed for the United States in the team

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event at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

in Helsinki, and the team came in fourth. He won three

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(AFLA) National Championships in team sabre; in 1952, 1955, and 1956. In 1953, Treves won the World Military Sabre Championship, and in 1954 he won the Italian University Sabre Championship. In 2000, Treves was elected to the Rutgers Sports Hall of Fame.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Treves, Alex 1929 births 2020 deaths American male sabre fencers Competitors at the 1950 Maccabiah Games Maccabiah Games competitors for the United States Maccabiah Games fencers Olympic fencers of the United States Fencers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from New York City Sportspeople from Turin Jewish male sabre fencers Jewish American sportspeople Italian emigrants to the United States 20th-century Italian Jews Rutgers University alumni 21st-century American Jews