Alexander Massialas

At the 2015 World Fencing Championships

Personal information

Born

April 20, 1994 (age 23)
San Francisco, California, U.S.

Weapon(s)

foil

Hand

right-handed

Height

1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)

Weight

70.4 kg (155 lb)

National coach(es)

Greg Massialas

FIE Ranking

current ranking

Medal record

Representing United States
Olympic Games
	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Individual
	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Team
World Championships
	2013 Budapest	Team
	2015 Moscow	Individual
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 foil fencer, team silver medallist in the 2014 World Fencing Championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's foil and earned a silver medal; he also earned a bronze medal in Men's team foil.

Massialas was born in San Francisco, California to a father of Greek descent and a Taiwanese mother. 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.

An athletic child, Massialas also played soccer, and made the basketball and the swimming teams at Drew School. He enrolled Stanford University on a fencing scholarship in the fall of 2012. He closed his freshman season by winning the 2013 NCAA title in individual men's foil. He repeated this feat in 2015, after falling to David Willette in 2014's semifinal round.

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