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Alex Treves
Personal information
Full nameAlessandro Emanuele "Alex" Treves
Born (1929-01-14) January 14, 1929 (age 95)
Torino, Italy
Sport
SportFencing
EventSaber
College teamRutgers University
ClubSalle Santelli

Alessandro Emanuele "Alex" Treves (born January 14, 1929) is an Italian-born American Olympic fencer.[1] Treves was born in Torino, Italy, and is Jewish.[2][3][4] He later lived in New York City.[5]

Career

Treves fenced for Salle Santelli.[1][6] He fenced for Rutgers University (class of 1950), and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) saber title in both 1949 and 1950.[2][7] Treves was undefeated in three years of competing in college.[1][4] Treves competed for the United States in the team sabre event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the team came in fourth.[1][4] He won three Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) National Championships in team sabre; in 1952, 1955, and 1956.[1] In 1953, Treves won the World Military Sabre Championship, and in 1954 he won the Italian University Sabre Championship.[1][4] In 2000, Treves was elected to the Rutgers Sports Hall of Fame.[1][4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Alex Treves Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Bob Wechsler. Day by Day in Jewish Sports History,
  3. ^ Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Treves, Alex," Jews In Sports.
  5. ^ United States 1952 Olympic Book: Quadrennial Report of the United States Olympic Committee: Games of the XVth Olympiad, Helsinki, Finland, July 19 to August 3, 1952: VIth Olympic Winter Games, Oslo, Norway, February 14 to 25, 1952: 1st Pan American Games, Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 25 to March 8, 1951, Volume 1952.
  6. ^ "For the Record," Sports Illustrated.
  7. ^ National Collegiate Championships Records Book.
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