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Peter Westbrook, a groundbreaking fencer who became the first African-American and Asian-American to win a medal in fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics, died on Friday, November 29 in New York ...
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.
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.
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.
The fencing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured 12 events, the first time that both team and individual events have been held in all three weapons for both men and women. [1] Originally scheduled for 25 July to 2 August 2020, the games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rescheduled to 24 July to 1 August 2021 ...
On 24 July 2021, Streets in his Olympic debut, went viral on TikTok after he posted a video of him getting hit in his groin by Eli Dershwitz. The video amassed 6.5 million views and 1.2 million likes. His TikTok account and many of his videos showcasing his experience at the Olympics were picked up by a number of news outlets including E!
Led by Lee Kiefer, the United States defeated Italy 45-39 to win the first team gold medal in U.S. fencing history. ... Olympic news. Team USA fencing scored big Thursday, defeating Italy 45-39 ...
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).