Greg Massialas

Greg Massialas
Massialas at the Paris World Cup 2014
Personal information
Born	(1956-05-20) May 20, 1956 (age 68) Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Weapon	Foil

Gregory David Massialas (born May 20, 1956) is an American foil fencer and fencing coach.

A reserve for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he was set to make his Olympic début at the Moscow Games in 1980, but did not compete due to the 66-team boycott of the games.^[1] He was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal the same year.^[2] He competed at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.^[3]

He is the founder and head coach of the Massialas Foundation (MTEAM), a fencing club in San Francisco. Since 2012 he is the national coach of the United States senior foil team, which includes his own son Alexander. He brought the club to a No.1 world ranking, with each of its four members ranking individually in the Top 10 and Miles Chamley-Watson winning the 2013 World Fencing Championships. Massialas' daughter Sabrina, now a senior, is also a high-level foil fencer.

• List of USFA Division I National Champions
• List of USFA Hall of Fame members

• Greg Massialas at Olympedia
• the Massialas Foundation official website