Alessio Foconi

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

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

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]

• Alessio Foconi at the International Fencing Federation
• Alessio Foconi at the European Fencing Confederation (archive)
• Alessio Foconi at Olympics.com
• Alessio Foconi at Olympedia Edit this at Wikidata
• Alessio Foconi at the Federazione Italiana Scherma (archive) (in Italian)

• 1989 births
• Living people
• Italian male foil fencers
• Fencers from Rome
• FISU World University Games silver medalists for Italy
• Summer World University Games medalists in fencing
• Fencers at the 2015 European Games
• Fencers at the 2023 European Games
• European Games medalists in fencing
• European Games gold medalists for Italy
• European Games silver medalists for Italy
• World Fencing Championships medalists
• Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
• Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
• Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Olympic fencers for Italy
• 21st-century Italian sportsmen
• Fencers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• Olympic silver medalists for Italy
• Olympic medalists in fencing

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