Italy vs USA Men's Foil Fencing Team 2025

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:48:38 +0000

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Tbilisi 2025 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL | Footage the Final bout of the Gold Medal bout of the 2025 Tbilisi World Championships Men's Foil Team between Italy and USA cut from the original stream for clarity and searching purposes

While these teams have changed a lot over the years, Teams Italy and USA have a long history of competing against each other

2012 London Olympics Semifinal - Italy blows up USA in the semis - as to be expected, USA were young and Italy were the favorites
2013 Budapest WCH Final - USA has a huge comeback in the semis against France, but the team was young and half its members were injured, so losing against Italy in the Final is honestly a pretty good result
2015 Moscow WCH Semifinal - Garozzo's first year on the team. USA put up a really good fight, but Cassara retakes the lead in the seventh, Garozzo 5-0 Miles in the 8th, and Baldini closed it out in the 9th.
2016 Rio Olympics Bronze - USA finally beats Italy at a major!
2017 Leipzig WCH Final - USA won most of the medals in the season. Italy dropped Baldini for Foconi, and this was Garozzo's first year as anchor. Italy still wins
2018 Wuxi World WCH Final - USA won every world cup of that season. However, this time WCH wasn't even close - Italy wins again
2019 Budapest WCH - USA wins its first ever WCH, but it didn't face Italy along the way
2021 Tokyo Olympics - USA wins Bronze, while Italy lost to Japan in the quarterfinal
2022 - Italy wins every (if not almost every - I don't remember the result for Cairo World Cup) event, and beats USA 45/39 at WCH. This was Guillaume BIANCHI's first year on the team.
2023 - Surprisingly Hong Kong beats both Italy and USA in T8 and Bronze Medal Match respectively. This was Filippo MACCHI's first season on the team.
2024 - These teams did not meet at the Olympics. Italy beat USA in the Semifinal 45/38, then USA lost against France for Bronze.
2025 - Italy and USA were the only teams to win World Cups this season, with Italy winning more. This is Bryce LOUIE's first seasons on the team. Despite GAROZZO retiring, the Italian team is incredibly competitive, during this season, every member of the Italian team won at least one individual event. Davide Filippi broke into Top 16 without having fenced European and World Championships. Team Italy also changed national head coach from Stefano CERIONI to Simone VANNI. Alexander MASSIALAS won 3 events this season.

Team USA:
Alexander MASSIALAS
Nikita ITKIN
Gerek MEINHARDT
Bryce LOUIE (S)

Team Italy:
Guillaume BIANCHI
Tommaso MARINI
Fillipo MACCHI
Alessio FOCONI (S)

0:00 Introduction
0:28 Guillaume BIANCHI v Nikita ITKIN
3:30 Fillipo MACCHI v Alexander MASSIALAS
12:01 Tommaso MARINI v Gerek MEINHARDT
20:52 Fillipo MACCHI v Nikita ITKIN
27:37 Guillaume BIANCHI v Bryce LOUIE
31:48 Tommaso MARINI v Alexander MASSIALAS
31:19 Fillipo MACCHI v Gerek MEINHARDT
41:05 Tommaso MARINI v Nikita ITKIN
51:42 Guillaume BIANCHI v Alexander MASSIALAS