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, four-time team world champion, and 2018 individual world champion.
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. 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.
In the 2014–15 season Foconi bounced back in the World Cup circuit by posting a quarter-final finish in the Paris World Cup, then a bronze medal in the Löwe von Bonn.
Medal record
World championship YearLocationEventPosition2017 Leipzig, GermanyTeam men's foil1st2018 Wuxi, ChinaIndividual men's foil1st2018 Wuxi, ChinaTeam men's foil1st2019 Budapest, HungaryTeam men's foil3rd2022 Cairo, EgyptTeam men's foil1st2025 Tbilisi, GeorgiaTeam Men's Foil1st
European championship YearLocationEventPosition2017 Tbilisi, GeorgiaTeam men's goil3rd2018 Novi Sad, SerbiaTeam Men's Foil2nd2019 Düsseldorf, GermanyIndividual men's foil1st2019 Düsseldorf, GermanyTeam men's foil3rd2022 Antalya, TurkeyTeam men's foil1st
Grand Prix DateLocationEventPosition2011-05-09 Shanghai, ChinaIndividual men's foil3rd2016-06-03 Shanghai, ChinaIndividual men's foil3rd2016-12-02 Turin, ItalyIndividual men's foil1st2017-05-19 Shanghai, ChinaIndividual men's foil2nd2017-12-01 Turin, ItalyIndividual men's foil3rd2019-02-08 Turin, ItalyIndividual men's foil3rd2019-03-15 Anaheim, CaliforniaIndividual men's foil3rd2019-05-17 Shanghai, ChinaIndividual men's foil1st2022-05-13 Incheon, South KoreaIndividual men's foil3rd
World Cup DateLocationEventPosition2008-03-15 Espinho, PortugalIndividual men's foil3rd2015-02-06 Bonn, GermanyIndividual men's foil3rd2016-10-21 Cairo, EgyptIndividual men's foil2nd2017-10-20 Cairo, EgyptIndividual men's foil2nd2018-01-19 Paris, FranceIndividual men's foil1st2018-05-04 St. Petersburg, RussiaIndividual men's foil2nd2019-01-11 Paris, FranceIndividual men's foil1st2019-01-25 Tokyo, JapanIndividual men's foil3rd2019-05-03 St. Petersburg, RussiaIndividual men's foil2nd2019-11-08 Bonn, GermanyIndividual men's foil3rd2019-12-13 Tokyo, JapanIndividual men's foil1st2020-02-21 Cairo, EgyptIndividual men's foil3rd2022-01-14 Paris, FranceIndividual men's foil3rd2022-04-29 Plovdiv, BulgariaIndividual men's foil1st
References
External links
(archive) Alessio Foconi at the Federazione Italiana Scherma (archive)