Alex Treves

Alessandro Emanuele "Alex" Treves (January 14, 1929 – December 12, 2020)[1] was an Italian-born American Olympic fencer.[2] Treves was born in Torino, Italy, and is Jewish.[3][4][5] He later lived in New York City.[6]

Alex Treves
Personal information
Full nameAlessandro Emanuele Treves
Born(1929-01-14)January 14, 1929
Torino, Italy
DiedDecember 12, 2020(2020-12-12) (aged 91)
Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Sport
SportFencing
Event(s)Saber
College teamRutgers University
ClubSalle Santelli

Career

Treves fenced for Salle Santelli.[2][7] He fenced for Rutgers University (class of 1950), and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) saber title in both 1949 and 1950.[3][8] Treves was undefeated in three years of competing in college.[2][5] He competed for the United States at the 1950 Maccabiah Games.[9]

Treves competed for the United States in the team sabre event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the team came in fourth.[2][5] He won three Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) National Championships in team sabre; in 1952, 1955, and 1956.[2] In 1953, Treves won the World Military Sabre Championship, and in 1954 he won the Italian University Sabre Championship.[2][5] In 2000, Treves was elected to the Rutgers Sports Hall of Fame.[2][5]

References
  1. "Alex Treves". La Stampa. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  2. "Alex Treves Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
  3. Bob Wechsler. Day by Day in Jewish Sports History,
  4. Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports.
  5. "Treves, Alex," Jews In Sports.
  6. 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.
  7. "For the Record," Sports Illustrated.
  8. Association, National Collegiate Athletic (August 3, 1976). "National Collegiate Championships Records Book". National Collegiate Athletic Association. – via Google Books.
  9. "ENTER MACCABIAH GAMES; Alex, Edward Treves Will Seek Meet Fencing Laurels". timesmachine.nytimes.com.
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