Team USA’s Men’s Foil Fencers Aim To Parry Their Way To Gold: “Together, We Are Unstoppable”
All told the foursome each owns at least one Olympic medal, plus a combined 25 world championships medals.
Athlete Bio#
Height
5'10"
Age
28
Hometown
South Bend, IN
Education
Drew High School '15 University of Notre Dame '19
Personal
Daughter of three-time Olympian Greg Massialas and the younger sister of Alexander Massialas...Following back-to-back silver medal wins at the 2013 and 2014 Cadet World Championships, Sabrina anchored the women's foil team to its first gold medal at the Junior Worlds since 2009...At 17, she qualified for her first Senior World Team represented the United States at the 2014 Senior World Championships in Kazan, Russia in the team event. ...Sabrina made history when she became the first U.S. athlete in any weapon ever to win gold at the Youth Olympic Games Nanjing 2014Olympic Experience
- 1-time Olympian
- Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, 4th (Team Foil - Women)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2017 – silver (Team Foil - Women), 38th (Individual Foil - Women)
- Years of participation: Individual Foil - Women 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017; Team Foil - Women 2014, 2016, 2017
- Medals: 3 (3 silver)
- Silver – 2017 (Team Foil - Women); 2014 (Individual Foil - Women); 2013 (Individual Foil - Women)
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