Alexandre Blaszyck (born 8 January 1988) is a French

épée The ( or , ), sometimes spelled epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contains ...

fencer, team bronze medallist at the

2013 World Fencing Championships The 2013 World Fencing Championships were held at Budapest, Hungary from 5–12 August. Schedule Medal summary Medal table Men's events Women's events Participating nations 827 fencers from 101 countries competed. * (1) * (13) * ( ...

Career

Blaszyck discovered fencing at school and took up the sport at his local club, VGA Saint-Maur, with maestro Hervé Faget, then Siegfried Robin and Stéphane Riboud. After a silver medal in the French national championships for his age group he was selected into the national training programme for promising young athletes ("Pôle Espoirs") in Reims. A year after, in 2006, he earned a bronze medal at the Junior European Championships in Poznań. He won in 2007 the Junior World Championships in Belek as well as the Junior World Cup series. This result had him selected into

INSEP INSEP, the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance (Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance), is a French training institute and center for excellence in sports that trains elite athletes. It is located on th ...

, a state-sponsored institution for high-performance athletes. In the senior category Blaszyck won in 2010 the French national championship after defeating World no.5 Gauthier Grumier in the final. He also won the team event with the Levallois Sporting Club. In the 2012–13 season he climbed his first World Cup podium with a bronze medal at the Qatar Grand Prix in Doha. He reached the final in the Trophée Monal at home in Paris. After leading 14–13 against fellow Frenchman Daniel Jerent, he struck a hit that was later annulled for technical reasons, then lost the match. These two results caused Blaszyck to be was selected for the team event of the Zagreb European Championships. France were defeated by a single hit by Switzerland in the semifinal, then lost to Ukraine and finished fourth. In July he earned a team gold medal at the

2013 Summer Universiade The 2013 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXVII Summer Universiade (russian: XXVII Летняя Универсиада), was held in the city of Kazan, Russia, the most northerly city ever to host a Summer Universiade. Over 10,400 un ...

in Kazan. A few weeks later, at the 2013 World Championships, his first participation to the competition, he was eliminated in the second round by Poland's Radosław Zawrotniak. In the team event France lost to Ukraine in the semifinals, but prevailed over Poland to win a bronze medal. Blaszyck finished the season World no.12, his best ranking . Blaszyck then went through a dry period, plunging to the 9th rank in 2013. French national coach Hugues Obry demanded more regularity from him and excluded him from team training camps, forcing him to train on his own. He bounced back in the 2014–15 season by winning the Trophée Monal over Hungary's

Gábor Boczkó Gábor Boczkó (born 1 April 1977) is a Hungarian fencer, who won a silver medal in the team Épée competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with Krisztián Kulcsár, Géza Imre and Iván Kovács. Boczkó took up fencing af ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blaszyck, Alexandre 1988 births Living people French male épée fencers Universiade medalists in fencing Universiade gold medalists for France Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade