Alessio Foconi

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Alessio Foconi
Alessio Foconi CIP 2015 quals t114547.jpg
Foconi in 2015
Personal information
Born (1989-11-22) 22 November 1989 (age 34)
Rome, Italy
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
CountryItaly
Sport Fencing
Weapon Foil
Handright-handed
National coach Andrea Cipressa
ClubCS Terni / CS Aeronautica Militare
Head coachGiulio Tomassini
FIE  ranking current ranking
Medal record
Men's foil
Representing Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Olympic Games
Olympic rings.svg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Paris Team
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Leipzig Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Wuxi Individual
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Wuxi Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Cairo Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Budapest Team
European Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Baku Individual
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Baku Team
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Düsseldorf Individual
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Antalya Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 KrakówTeam
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Novi Sad Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Basel Individual
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Tbilisi Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Düsseldorf Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2024 BaselTeam

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

Contents

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

Career

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

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

World championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2017 Flag of Germany.svg Leipzig, Germany Team men's foil1st [6]
2018 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Wuxi, China Individual men's foil1st [7]
2018 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Wuxi, China Team men's foil1st [8]
2019 Flag of Hungary.svg Budapest, Hungary Team men's foil3rd [9]
2022 Flag of Egypt.svg Cairo, Egypt Team men's foil1st [10]

European championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2017 Flag of Georgia.svg Tbilisi, Georgia Team men's goil3rd [11]
2018 Flag of Serbia.svg Novi Sad, Serbia Team Men's Foil2nd [12]
2019 Flag of Germany.svg Düsseldorf, Germany Individual men's foil1st [13]
2019 Flag of Germany.svg Düsseldorf, Germany Team men's foil3rd [14]
2022 Flag of Turkey.svg Antalya, Turkey Team men's foil1st [15]

Grand Prix

DateLocationEventPosition
2011-05-09 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Shanghai, China Individual men's foil3rd [16]
2016-06-03 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Shanghai, China Individual men's foil3rd [17]
2016-12-02 Flag of Italy.svg Turin, Italy Individual men's foil1st [18]
2017-05-19 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Shanghai, China Individual men's foil2nd [19]
2017-12-01 Flag of Italy.svg Turin, Italy Individual men's foil3rd [20]
2019-02-08 Flag of Italy.svg Turin, Italy Individual men's foil3rd [21]
2019-03-15 Flag of the United States.svg Anaheim, California Individual men's foil3rd [22]
2019-05-17 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Shanghai, China Individual men's foil1st [23]
2022-05-13 Flag of South Korea.svg Incheon, South Korea Individual men's foil3rd [24]

World Cup

DateLocationEventPosition
2008-03-15 Flag of Portugal.svg Espinho, Portugal Individual men's foil3rd [25]
2015-02-06 Flag of Germany.svg Bonn, Germany Individual men's foil3rd [26]
2016-10-21 Flag of Egypt.svg Cairo, Egypt Individual men's foil2nd [27]
2017-10-20 Flag of Egypt.svg Cairo, Egypt Individual men's foil2nd [28]
2018-01-19 Flag of France.svg Paris, France Individual men's foil1st [29]
2018-05-04 Flag of Russia.svg St. Petersburg, Russia Individual men's foil2nd [30]
2019-01-11 Flag of France.svg Paris, France Individual men's foil1st [31]
2019-01-25 Flag of Japan.svg Tokyo, Japan Individual men's foil3rd [32]
2019-05-03 Flag of Russia.svg St. Petersburg, Russia Individual men's foil2nd [33]
2019-11-08 Flag of Germany.svg Bonn, Germany Individual men's foil3rd [34]
2019-12-13 Flag of Japan.svg Tokyo, Japan Individual men's foil1st [35]
2020-02-21 Flag of Egypt.svg Cairo, Egypt Individual men's foil3rd [36]
2022-01-14 Flag of France.svg Paris, France Individual men's foil3rd [37]
2022-04-29 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Plovdiv, Bulgaria Individual men's foil1st [38]

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