After consecutive NCAA titles at Notre Dame, this SoCal fencing phenom is taking his talents to Tokyo. Olympics
Think of it as a waltz, feet scuffling, bodies shifting and ducking, fencers moving up and down the strip in unison.
Itkin knows about good timing. The 21-year-old grew up at his dad’s fencing club on the Westside, learning the art of foil just as the U.S. was becoming a global force, rivaling the Italians, Russians and French in that discipline. Foil ranks somewhere in the middle, a mix of strategy and explosive action, and that is where the U.S. excels. Four Americans — Gerek Meinhardt, Alex Massialas, Race Imboden and Itkin — rank in the world’s Top 10.
This success translated into an athletic scholarship at Notre Dame where he earned NCAA individual championships in 2018 and 2019. “I had my bouts where I got destroyed and I lost bouts that I let slip away,” he says. “Still, I always had really high expectations for myself. This season, I knew I was close.”The next step — making the Olympic team — required fighting through a logjam. As in many sports, the U.S. talent pool in foil is so deep that someone very good has to be left off the team.
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