Alessio Foconi (born 22 November 1989) is an Italian right-handed foil fencer and 2021 Olympian.

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Alessio Foconi
Personal information
Born	(1989-11-22) 22 November 1989 (age 34) Rome, Italy
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil
Hand	right-handed
National coach	Andrea Cipressa
Club	CS Terni / CS Aeronautica Militare
Head coach	Giulio Tomassini
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's foil Representing  Italy World Championships 2017 Leipzig Team 2018 Wuxi Individual 2018 Wuxi Team 2022 Cairo Team 2019 Budapest Team European Games 2015 Baku Individual 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team 2015 Baku Team European Championships 2019 Düsseldorf Individual 2022 Antalya Team 2023 Kraków Team 2018 Novi Sad Team 2017 Tbilisi Team 2019 Düsseldorf Team

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Foconi is a 2022 team European champion, 2019 individual European champion, three-time team world champion, and 2018 individual world champion.^[1]

Born in Rome, Foconi took up fencing in Terni, Umbria. He was coached in his formative years by Filippo Romagnoli and Giulio Tomassini.

In 2008 he created an upset at the Espinho World Cup after defeating Renal Ganeyev, Ruslan Nasibulin and Choi Byung-chul. He was stopped in the semifinals by fellow countryman and team Olympic champion Simone Vanni and came away with a bronze medal.^[2] The next year he won a team bronze medal at the Junior European Championships in Amsterdam and an individual bronze and a team gold at the Junior World Championships in Belfast.

In 2010–11 he took another World Cup bronze, this time at the Shanghai Grand Prix, and finished the season 25th in the world rankings. He did not qualify to the 2012 Summer Olympics, but maintained his Top 25 ranking. In 2013 he won the Italian championship after defeating Valerio Aspromonte in the final.^[3]

In the 2014–15 season Foconi bounced back in the World Cup circuit by posting a quarter-final finish in the Paris World Cup,^[4] then a bronze medal in the Löwe von Bonn.^[5]