The Most Famous
FENCERS from Algeria
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Algerian Fencers of all time. This list of famous Algerian Fencers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Alaaeldin Abouelkassem (b. 1990)
With an HPI of 30.29, Alaaeldin Abouelkassem is the most famous Algerian Fencer. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Alaaeldin Mohamed El-Sayed Abouelkassem (Arabic: علاء الدين محمد السيد أبو القاسم; born 25 November 1990) is an Egyptian fencer who won a silver medal in the men's foil event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He took up fencing at the age of eight and, in 2008, began fencing internationally, winning medals at the African and World Junior Championships, as well as the Junior World Cup, before progressing to the senior level in 2011 and capturing bronze at the Fleuret de St-Petersbourg. Later that year, he earned gold medals at the 2011 Pan Arab Games in the individual and team foil events before progressing to the 2012 Summer Games, where he won Africa's first-ever Olympic fencing medal.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Algerian fencers born between 1990 and 1990. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Algerian fencers include Alaaeldin Abouelkassem.
