# Alex Treves
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{{Short description|American fencer (1929–2020)}}
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| fullname = Alessandro Emanuele Treves
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|1|14}}
| birth_place = [Turin](/source/Turin), Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|12|12|1929|1|14}}
| death_place = [Monte Carlo](/source/Monte_Carlo), Monaco
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| sport = [Fencing](/source/Fencing)
| event = Saber
| collegeteam = [Rutgers University](/source/Rutgers_University)
| club = Salle Santelli
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'''Alessandro Emanuele "Alex" Treves''' (January 14, 1929 – December 12, 2020)[{{cite web|url=https://necrologie.lastampa.it/necrologi/2020/856955-treves-alessandro |title=Alex Treves |work=La Stampa |access-date=February 18, 2021}}] was an Italian-born American Olympic [fencer](/source/fencing).[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,'']][Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AgmDAAAAMAAJ&q=%22alex+treves%22+fencer+jewish ''Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports.'']][[http://jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=298 "Treves, Alex,"] Jews In Sports.] He later lived in New York City.[[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,''] Volume 1952.]
==Career==
Treves fenced for Salle Santelli.[[https://www.si.com/vault/1956/06/18/620640/for-the-record "For the Record,"] ''Sports Illustrated''.] He fenced for [Rutgers University](/source/Rutgers_University) (class of 1950), and won the [National Collegiate Athletic Association](/source/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association) (NCAA) saber title in both 1949 and 1950.[{{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}}] Treves was undefeated in three years of competing in college.[{{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}}]
Treves competed for the United States in the team [sabre](/source/sabre_(fencing)) event at the [1952 Summer Olympics](/source/1952_Summer_Olympics) in Helsinki, and the team came in fourth.[{{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}}]