Alexander James O'Connell (born 17 April 1988) is a sabre fencer who competed for Great Britain at the 2008 Olympic Games.
He competed for Great Britain at the 2008 Olympic Games, where he seeded 39th, and was eliminated by Nikolay Kovalev in the first round of competition, narrowly losing 15-14.
[5] O'Connell was one of a group of four fencers who unsuccessfully appealed their rejection from the British team at the London 2012 Olympics.
[7] Educated at Brentwood School in Essex and Churchill College, Cambridge, where he studied Classics,[2] O'Connell is now a lawyer with Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer in London.
In 2017, O'Connell married author Ruth Gilligan in Ireland, after they met in college in 2008, and became engaged in 2016.