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  2. 2024 Paris Olympics: Americans Lee Kiefer, Lauren Scruggs win ...

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    Lee Kiefer is the first American woman to win two gold medals in fencing. ... school at the University of Kentucky before taking a break prior to the 2020 Olympics to focus entirely on fencing.

  3. Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    212 fencing quota places, with an equal distribution between men and women, were available for Paris 2024, similar to the Tokyo 2020 roster size. Qualified NOCs could enter a maximum of eighteen fencers (nine per gender), with each consisting of a trio, whether men's or women's, across all weapon-based team events (foil, épée, and sabre).

  4. Fencing at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Fencing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. There are three forms of Olympic fencing: Foil — a light thrusting weapon; the valid target is restricted to the torso; double touches are not allowed.

  5. Meet Lauren Scruggs: The 1st Black American woman to win an ...

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    Star fencer Lauren Scruggs knew that she would be making history heading into her gold medal matchup against fellow American Lee Kiefer in the women's individual foil final at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

  6. Kim Ji-yeon (fencer) - Wikipedia

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    A three-time Olympian, Kim is a 2021 team Olympic bronze medalist and 2012 individual Olympic champion. Kim is the first South Korean woman to win an Olympic gold medal in fencing and the second South Korean to win any Olympic medal in fencing after Nam Hyun-hee 's silver medal in individual women's foil at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games .

  7. Japan beats Italy for the last fencing gold medal of the ...

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    Japan won its second fencing gold medal of the Paris Olympics by beating Italy 45-36 in the last bout of the Games in the men's team foil final Sunday. Japan's alternate, Yudai Nagano, came in for ...

  8. Olympics-Fencing-Young Queens fencer shows New York grit on ...

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    Growing up in cutthroat New York gave Lauren Scruggs the competitive mindset needed to claim an unexpected fencing silver medal on her Olympic debut in Paris. The 21-year-old Queens native shared ...

  9. Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team foil

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    The men's team foil returned in 1920 and has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1920 except 2008 (during the time when team events were rotated off the schedule, with only two of the three weapons for each of the men's and women's categories). The reigning Olympic champion is Russia (Aleksey Cheremisinov, Artur Akhmatkhuzin, and Timur Safin).