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
EventSaber
College teamRutgers University
ClubSalle Santelli

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]

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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Alex Treves Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Bob Wechsler. Day by Day in Jewish Sports History,
  4. ↑ Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports.
  5. 1 2 3 4 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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