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The United States Fencing Association (USFA) is the national governing body for the sport of fencing in the United States. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The USFA was founded in 1891 as the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) by a group of New York fencers seeking independence from the Amateur Athletic Union .
The U.S. Fencing Coaches Association (USFCA) is an association of United States fencing coaches, and was established in 1941. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a national academy of the Academie d'Armes Internationale (AAI), the world organization of fencing masters , which has as members more than 20 nations. [ 4 ]
The Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) was founded on April 22, 1891, in New York City by a group of fencers seeking independence from the Amateur Athletic Union.As early as 1940, the AFLA was recognized by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) and the United States Olympic Committee as the national governing body for fencing in the United States.
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Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt have been dubbed the first couple of U.S. Fencing. Kiefer and Meinhardt are both competing in their fourth, and possibly final, Olympic Games as a couple in Paris 2024.
Soren Hunter Miles S Thompson [2] (born May 5, 1981) is an American épée fencer, team world champion, and two-time Olympian.He represented the United States in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he reached the quarterfinals and came in 7th, the best US result in the event since 1956 and at the time the second-best US result of all time.
The U.S. men's fencing team ranks 16th overall in the world with 20 medals since the first Olympic games in 1896. They've earned seven silver medals, 12 bronze medals and only one gold by an ...
Fencing is a coed sport, with teams having men's and women's squads, although some schools field only a women's team. Schools of every division compete together regularly. Most major conferences do not sponsor fencing, with the notable exceptions of the Ivy League, the Atlantic Coast Conference, and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.