Alaaeldin Abouelkassem

Alaaeldin Abouelkassem
Abouelkassem at the Challenge Revenu 2013
Personal information
Full name	Alaaeldin Mohamed El-Sayed Abouelkassem
Born	(1990-11-25) 25 November 1990 (age 33) Sétif, Algeria
Nationality	Egyptian
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Country	Egypt
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	foil
Hand	left-handed
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's foil Representing  Egypt Olympic Games 2012 London Foil Pan Arab Games 2011 Doha Foil 2011 Doha Team foil Mediterranean Games 2013 Mersin Foil African Games 2015 Brazzaville Foil 2015 Brazzaville Team foil 2019 Rabat Foil 2019 Rabat Team foil African Championships 2024 Casablanca Team foil 2024 Casablanca Foil

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.