Alexander Massialas

Alexander Massialas

Massialas at the 2015 World Fencing Championships

Personal information

Born

April 20, 1994 (age 29)
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. 1 (Men's foil)^[3]^[4]

Medal record

Men's foil

Representing the United States
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
	2022 Cairo	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, 11-time team Pan American champion, two-time 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]
2022	Cairo, Egypt	Team Men's Foil	2nd^[21]

Pan American Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2009	San Salvador, El Salvador	Team Men's Foil	1st^[22]
2010	San José, Costa Rica	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[23]
2010	San José, Costa Rica	Team Men's Foil	1st^[24]
2011	Reno, Nevada	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[25]
2011	Reno, Nevada	Team Men's Foil	1st^[26]
2012	Cancún, Mexico	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[27]
2012	Cancún, Mexico	Team Men's Foil	1st^[28]
2013	Cartagena, Colombia	Team Men's Foil	1st^[29]
2014	San José, Costa Rica	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[30]
2015	Santiago, Chile	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[31]
2015	Santiago, Chile	Team Men's Foil	1st^[32]
2016	Panama City, Panama	Individual Men's Foil	1st^[33]
2016	Panama City, Panama	Team Men's Foil	1st^[34]
2017	Montreal, Canada	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[35]
2017	Montreal, Canada	Team Men's Foil	1st^[36]
2018	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[37]
2018	Havana, Cuba	Team Men's Foil	1st^[38]
2019	Toronto, Canada	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[39]
2019	Toronto, Canada	Team Men's Foil	1st^[40]
2022	Asunción, Paraguay	Individual Men's Foil	1st^[41]
2022	Asunción, Paraguay	Team Men's Foil	1st^[42]

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2013-03-04	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[43]
2014-05-03	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[44]
2015-03-13	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[45]
2016-06-03	Shanghai, China	Individual Men's Foil	1st^[46]
2016-12-02	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[47]
2017-03-17	Long Beach, California	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[48]
2017-12-01	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	1st^[49]
2020-02-07	Turin, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[50]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2010-05-29	Montreal, Canada	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[51]
2011-05-20	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[52]
2012-01-27	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[53]
2013-02-22	A Coruña, Spain	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[54]
2014-04-25	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Men's Foil	1st^[55]
2015-01-16	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[56]
2015-11-06	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	1st^[57]
2017-01-20	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	1st^[58]
2018-02-09	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	2nd^[59]
2019-03-01	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[60]
2020-02-21	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	3rd^[61]