ABOUELKASSEM Alaaeldin

Date of Birth: 25 Nov 1990

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Place of birth: SETIF

Birth Country:

Algeria

Place of residence : CAIRO

Residence Country:

Egypt

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Fencing	Men's Foil Individual	6
	Men's Foil Team EGY Egypt	8

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Blue Piste	Men's Foil Individual Table of 32 #34 GER KLEIBRINK BKLEIBRINK Benjamin 11 EGY ABOUELKASSEM AABOUELKASSEM Alaaeldin 15	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Blue Piste	Men's Foil Individual Table of 16 #49 ROC MYLNIKOV VMYLNIKOV Vladislav 12 EGY ABOUELKASSEM AABOUELKASSEM Alaaeldin 15	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Blue Piste	Men's Foil Individual Quarterfinal 1 #57 JPN SHIKINE TSHIKINE Takahiro 15 EGY ABOUELKASSEM AABOUELKASSEM Alaaeldin 13	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Red Piste	Men's Foil Team Quarterfinal 4 #12 FRA France 45 EGY Egypt 34	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Red Piste	Men's Foil Team Classifications 5-8 #14 ITA Italy 45 EGY Egypt 30	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Red Piste	Men's Foil Team Placement 7-8 #17 HKG Hong Kong, China 45 EGY Egypt 21	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	11	7
2012	London, GBR	2	9

World Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	29	11
2018	Wuxi, CHN	13	9
2017	Leipzig, GER	20	14
2015	Moscow, RUS	36	9
2014	Kazan, RUS	16	11
2013	Budapest, HUN	13	10
2011	Catania, ITA	5	12
2010	Paris, FRA	16	15
2009	Antalya, TUR	43	-

African Games

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Sale, MAR	1	1

African Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Bamako, MLI	1	1
2018	Tunis, TUN	1	1
2017	Alexandria, EGY	1	1

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019/2020	1 x 12th, 1 x 15th, 1 x 56th	1 x 6th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 12th
2018/2019	1 x 18th, 1 x 22nd, 1 x 34th	1 x 8th, 1 x 10th, 2 x 12th
2017/2018	1 x 36th, 1 x 37th, 1 x 54th	1 x 10th, 1 x 11th, 1 x 14th
2016/2017	1 x 10th, 1 x 11th, 1 x 18th	1 x 8th

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Foil Individual
2019/2020	1 x 44th
2018/2019	1 x 20th, 1 x 21st, 1 x 22nd
2017/2018	1 x 11th, 1 x 49th
2016/2017	1 x 9th

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
6	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
8	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	St. Petersburg, RUS
8	2016/2017	Foil Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
9	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Tokyo, JPN
9	2016/2017	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Long Beach, CA, USA
10	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
10	2017/2018	Foil Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
10	2016/2017	Foil Individual	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
11	2017/2018	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Anaheim, CA, USA
11	2017/2018	Foil Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
11	2016/2017	Foil Individual	World Cup	Paris, FRA

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Foil Individual	2017/2018	Barcelona, ESP

Occupation:

Engineering - Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, EGY

Languages spoken:

Arabic, English, French

Sharjah Sports Club [United Arab Emirates]

Maher Hamza [national]; Valerio Aspromonte [personal], ITA

Left (egypttoday.com, 01 Aug 2012)

He injured his left shoulder in the first period of the final at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, which meant he required a medical break of 10 minutes. He ended up winning the silver medal. (ahram.org.eg, 01 Aug 2012; egypttoday.com, 01 Aug 2012)

At age eight he stopped playing other sports to pursue fencing at the Al-Selah Al-Sakandry club in Alexandria, Egypt. (FIE Fencing YouTube channel, 14 Oct 2020; Facebook page, 07 Jun 2019)

He did not like the combat aspect of karate and felt swimming was too difficult. He loved fencing. "It's a sport that depends on intelligence and technique, not only on force." (ahram.org.eg, 01 Aug 2012)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (FIE Fencing YouTube channel, 14 Oct 2020)

Winning silver in individual foil at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (FIE Fencing YouTube channel, 14 Oct 2020)

In January 2013 he was given the Emerging Athlete award at the Creative Sports Awards. (sport360.com, 07 Jan 2013)

He has been presented with the First Class Sports Medal in Egypt. (alaaeldinabouelkassem.com, 15 Sep 2019)

General Interest

General
OTHER ACTIVITIES
He has served as a member of the International Fencing Federation [FIE] athletes' commission. (fie.org, 07 Oct 2017)

HERITAGE
Born in Setif, Algeria, to an Egyptian father and an Algerian mother, he moved to Egypt at age four. (Facebook page, 07 Jun 2019)

Milestones

He became the first fencer representing an African nation to win a medal at the Olympic Games when he claimed silver in individual foil at the 2012 Games in London. (SportsDeskOnline, 13 Jun 2019; aubervilliers.fr, 05 Jan 2015)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/alaaeldin.elsayed
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/alaaabouelkassem
https://instagram.com/abouelkassem/
https://twitter.com/abouelkassem
Athlete Website: https://alaaeldinabouelkassem.com

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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