Alexander Massialas (born April 20, 1994) is an American right-handed foil fencer. Massialas is a two-time

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champion, 11-time team Pan American champion, two-time individual Pan American champion, and 2019 team world champion. A three-time

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, Massialas is a 2016 individual Olympic silver medalist and two-time team Olympic bronze medalist. Massialas competed in the

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, the

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, and the

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Biography

Massialas was born in

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, to a father of

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descent and a Taiwanese mother. His father,

Greg Massialas Gregory David Massialas (born May 20, 1956) is an American foil fencer and fencing coach. Career A reserve for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he was set to make his Olympic début at the Moscow Games in 1980, but was prevented from d ...

, fenced for the United States in the

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and

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, 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. An athletic child, Massialas played soccer and made the basketball and the swimming teams at

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. He enrolled at Stanford University on a fencing scholarship in the fall of 2012. He closed his freshman season by winning the 2013 NCAA title in individual men's foil. He repeated this feat in 2015, after falling to David Willette in 2014's semifinal round.

Medal Record

Olympic Games

World Championship

Pan American Championship

Grand Prix

World Cup

References

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Massialas, Alexander 1994 births Living people American male foil fencers Olympic silver medalists for the United States in fencing Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in fencing Fencers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in fencing Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Stanford Cardinal fencers American sportspeople of Taiwanese descent American people of Greek descent Fencers from San Francisco Fencers at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics World Fencing Championships medalists