Alex Treves
{{Short description|American fencer (1929–2020)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|1|14}}
| birth_place = Torino, Italy
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| death_place = Monte-Carlo, Monaco
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| sport = Fencing
| event = Saber
| collegeteam = 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. Treves was born in Torino, Italy, and was Jewish.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 (class of 1950), and won the 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. He competed for the United States at the 1950 Maccabiah Games.{{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 event at the 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}} He won three Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) National Championships in team sabre; in 1952, 1955, and 1956. In 1953, Treves won the World Military Sabre Championship, and in 1954 he won the Italian University Sabre Championship. In 2000, Treves was elected to the Rutgers Sports Hall of Fame.
See also
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Category:American male sabre fencers
Category:Competitors at the 1950 Maccabiah Games
Category:Maccabiah Games competitors for the United States
Category:Maccabiah Games fencers
Category:Olympic fencers for the United States
Category:Fencers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Category:Fencers from New York City
Category:Jewish American sportspeople
Category:Italian emigrants to the United States
Category:20th-century Italian Jews
Category:Rutgers University alumni