Alessio Foconi
Personal information
Born	(1989-11-22) 22 November 1989 (age 34) Rome, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil
Hand	right-handed
National coach	Andrea Cipressa
Club	CS Terni / CS Aeronautica Militare
Head coach	Giulio Tomassini
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's foil Representing  Italy World Championships 2017 Leipzig Team 2018 Wuxi Individual 2018 Wuxi Team 2022 Cairo Team 2019 Budapest Team European Games 2015 Baku Individual 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team 2015 Baku Team European Championships 2019 Düsseldorf Individual 2022 Antalya Team 2023 Kraków Team 2018 Novi Sad Team 2017 Tbilisi Team 2019 Düsseldorf Team

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]

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

Year	Location	Event	Position
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team men's foil	1st[6]
2018	Wuxi, China	Individual men's foil	1st[7]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team men's foil	1st[8]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team men's foil	3rd[9]
2022	Cairo, Egypt	Team men's foil	1st[10]

European championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team men's goil	3rd[11]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Men's Foil	2nd[12]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Individual men's foil	1st[13]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team men's foil	3rd[14]
2022	Antalya, Turkey	Team men's foil	1st[15]

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2011-05-09	Shanghai, China	Individual men's foil	3rd[16]
2016-06-03	Shanghai, China	Individual men's foil	3rd[17]
2016-12-02	Turin, Italy	Individual men's foil	1st[18]
2017-05-19	Shanghai, China	Individual men's foil	2nd[19]
2017-12-01	Turin, Italy	Individual men's foil	3rd[20]
2019-02-08	Turin, Italy	Individual men's foil	3rd[21]
2019-03-15	Anaheim, California	Individual men's foil	3rd[22]
2019-05-17	Shanghai, China	Individual men's foil	1st[23]
2022-05-13	Incheon, South Korea	Individual men's foil	3rd[24]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2008-03-15	Espinho, Portugal	Individual men's foil	3rd[25]
2015-02-06	Bonn, Germany	Individual men's foil	3rd[26]
2016-10-21	Cairo, Egypt	Individual men's foil	2nd[27]
2017-10-20	Cairo, Egypt	Individual men's foil	2nd[28]
2018-01-19	Paris, France	Individual men's foil	1st[29]
2018-05-04	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual men's foil	2nd[30]
2019-01-11	Paris, France	Individual men's foil	1st[31]
2019-01-25	Tokyo, Japan	Individual men's foil	3rd[32]
2019-05-03	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual men's foil	2nd[33]
2019-11-08	Bonn, Germany	Individual men's foil	3rd[34]
2019-12-13	Tokyo, Japan	Individual men's foil	1st[35]
2020-02-21	Cairo, Egypt	Individual men's foil	3rd[36]
2022-01-14	Paris, France	Individual men's foil	3rd[37]
2022-04-29	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Individual men's foil	1st[38]