{{Short description|American fencer (1929–2020)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Alex Treves | image = | caption = | fullname = Alessandro Emanuele Treves | nationality = | residence = | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|1|14}} | birth_place = Turin, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|12|12|1929|1|14}} | death_place = Monte Carlo, Monaco | height = | weight = | website = | country = | sport = Fencing | event = Saber | collegeteam = Rutgers University | club = Salle Santelli | team = | turnedpro = | coach = | retired = | coaching = | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = | highestranking = | pb = | show-medals = yes }} '''Alessandro Emanuele "Alex" Treves''' (January 14, 1929 &ndash; December 12, 2020)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://necrologie.lastampa.it/necrologi/2020/856955-treves-alessandro |title=Alex Treves |work=La Stampa |access-date=February 18, 2021}}</ref> was an Italian-born American Olympic fencer.<ref name="sports-reference"/> Treves was born in Turin, Italy, and was Jewish.<ref name=autogenerated1>Bob Wechsler. [https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&dq=%22alex+treves%22+fencer+jewish&pg=PA86 ''Day by Day in Jewish Sports History,''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AgmDAAAAMAAJ&q=%22alex+treves%22+fencer+jewish ''Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports.''<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=autogenerated2>[http://jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=298 "Treves, Alex,"<!-- Bot generated title -->] Jews In Sports.</ref> He later lived in New York City.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=reInAQAAIAAJ&q=%22alex+treves%22+fencer ''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,''<!-- Bot generated title -->] Volume 1952.</ref>

==Career== Treves fenced for Salle Santelli.<ref name="sports-reference"/><ref>[https://www.si.com/vault/1956/06/18/620640/for-the-record "For the Record,"] ''Sports Illustrated''.</ref> He fenced for Rutgers University (class of 1950), and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) saber title in both 1949 and 1950.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDhZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22alex+treves%22+fencer|title=National Collegiate Championships Records Book|first=National Collegiate Athletic|last=Association|date=August 3, 1976|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association.|via=Google Books}}</ref> Treves was undefeated in three years of competing in college.<ref name="sports-reference"/><ref name=autogenerated2 /> He competed for the United States at the 1950 Maccabiah Games.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/08/13/113170930.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|title=ENTER MACCABIAH GAMES; Alex, Edward Treves Will Seek Meet Fencing Laurels|website=timesmachine.nytimes.com}}</ref>

Treves competed for the United States in the team sabre event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the team came in fourth.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/alex-treves-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418043344/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/alex-treves-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |title=Alex Treves Olympic Results |access-date=September 26, 2010 |work=sports-reference.com}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated2 /> He won three Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) National Championships in team sabre; in 1952, 1955, and 1956.<ref name="sports-reference"/> In 1953, Treves won the World Military Sabre Championship, and in 1954 he won the Italian University Sabre Championship.<ref name="sports-reference"/><ref name=autogenerated2 /> In 2000, Treves was elected to the Rutgers Sports Hall of Fame.<ref name="sports-reference"/><ref name=autogenerated2 />

==See also==

*List of NCAA fencing champions

==References== {{reflist|30em}}

==External links== * {{sports links}}

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