Alex O'Connell
Fencing
Sabre Individual
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Date of Birth: |
17/04/1988 |
| Lives: |
Cambridge |
| Born: |
Brentwood |
| Country of Birth: |
England |
| Height: |
190 |
| Weight: |
88 |
| Club: |
Brentwood FC/Cambridge Uni FC |
| Coach: |
Mike Matthews / David Sach |
| Occupation: |
Student |
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Team GB's sole fencing representative in Beijing. He secured selection with silver at the European qualification tournament in Istanbul, losing to Marcin Koniusz (POL) in the final.
Became GBR’s youngest World Champion aged 16 when he won u17 cadet title at 2005 World Junior Championships and is current Commonwealth senior and junior individual sabre champion.
Has just completed second year of a Classical Greek & Latin degree at Cambridge University where he captains the Fencing Club and also plays football and hockey for Churchill College.
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WCh: 64th (ind sabre) Leipzig GER Oct 05; 56th (ind sabre) Turin ITA Sep 06; 60th (ind sabre) St Petersburg RUS Oct 07. ECh: 38th (ind sabre) Gand BEL Jul 07. WJCh: 15th (ind sabre - jnr), gold (ind sabre – cadet) Linz AUT Mar 05; 18th (ind sabre – jnr) Belek TUR Apr 07; 26th (ind sabre) Sicily ITA Apr 08. WUG: 38th (ind sabre), rd 16 (tm sabre) Bangkok THA Aug 07. Eur Zone Qual: silver (ind sabre) Istanbul TUR Apr 08. C/wlth FCh: gold (ind sabre) Belfast, GBR Sep 06. C/wlth JFCh: gold (ind sabre) Chennai IND Jan 06.