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Lee Kiefer
Personal information
Born (1994-06-15) June 15, 1994 (age 30)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
CountryUnited States
WeaponFoil
Handright-handed
ClubBluegrass Fencers Club
Head coachAmgad Khazbak
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Women's foil
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Individual foil
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Wuxi Team
Silver medal – second place 2017 Leipzig Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Cairo Team
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Catania Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Budapest Team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Cairo Individual
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Individual
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Individual
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima Individual
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima Team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto Team
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 San José Individual
Gold medal – first place 2010 San José Team
Gold medal – first place 2011 Reno Individual
Gold medal – first place 2011 Reno Team
Gold medal – first place 2012 Cancún Individual
Gold medal – first place 2012 Cancún Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Cartagena Individual
Gold medal – first place 2013 Cartagena Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 San José Individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 San José Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Santiago Individual
Gold medal – first place 2015 Santiago Team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Panama City Individual
Gold medal – first place 2016 Panama City Team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Montreal Individual
Gold medal – first place 2017 Montreal Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Havana Individual
Gold medal – first place 2018 Havana Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Toronto Team

Lee Kiefer (born June 15, 1994) is an American right-handed foil fencer.[1]

Kiefer is a four-time NCAA champion, ten-time team Pan American champion, nine-time individual Pan American champion, and 2018 team world champion.

A three-time Olympian, Kiefer is a 2021 individual Olympic champion.[2] Kiefer is the first American foil fencer in history to win an individual Olympic gold medal.[3]

Kiefer competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Career

Team USA (from left: Nzingha Prescod, Sabrina Massialas, Nicole Ross, and Lee Kiefer) in 2015.

Kiefer was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Lexington, Kentucky.[4] Her mother Teresa, a psychiatrist, was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the US as a child, and her father Steve, a neurosurgeon, once captained the Duke University fencing team. She graduated from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in 2012. She attended the University of Notre Dame, where she fenced for the Fighting Irish and graduated in 2017. She is now a medical student at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

Her sister is former Harvard foil fencer and 2011 NCAA champion Alex Kiefer, who is now a doctor.[5] Kiefer also has a younger brother, Axel, who was the 2015 USA Fencing National Championships Junior Gold Medalist, and who also attended and fenced foil for the University of Notre Dame, coming in second in the 2019 NCAA Championship.[6]

Kiefer earned a bronze medal in Women's foil at the 2011 World Fencing Championships.[7] She placed 5th at the 2012 London Olympic Games, after losing to eventual silver medalist Arianna Errigo in the quarter final, 15–10. In the 2014–15 season she climbed her first World Cup podium with a silver medal in Saint-Maur.[8] She went on to win the Algiers World Cup in early 2015 after defeating world No.1 Arianna Errigo, who had prevailed over her in Saint-Maur. By winning at the 2014 NCAA Fencing National Championships, she joined male fencer Gerek Meinhardt and swimmer Emma Reaney as part of the 2nd Notre Dame Fighting Irish trio to be named individual national champion in a single year and the 4th to be either individual national champion or national athlete of the year in a single year.[9]

Following her win at the Long Beach Grand Prix on March 18, 2017, she moved into #1 in FIE world rankings, becoming the first American woman to hold the #1 position.

She qualified to represent the United States in fencing at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in 2021 and reached the final in the individual foil.[10] In the final, she defeated Inna Deriglazova, the defending champion, with a score of 15–13 to win gold.[11][12] She is the first American, male or female, to win the gold medal in Olympic individual foil.[13]

Personal life

Lee and fellow foil fencer Gerek Meinhardt began dating in January 2012. They were engaged in January of 2018 and married in September 2019.

Medal record

Olympic Games

Year Location Event Position
2021 Japan Tokyo, Japan Individual Women's Foil 1st[14]

World Championship

Year Location Event Position
2011 Italy Catania, Italy Individual Women's Foil 3rd[15]
2017 Germany Leipzig, Germany Team Women's Foil 2nd[16]
2018 China Wuxi, China Team Women's Foil 1st[17]
2019 Hungary Budapest, Hungary Team Women's Foil 3rd[18]
2022 Egypt Cairo, Egypt Individual Women's Foil 3rd[19]

Pan American Championship

Year Location Event Position
2010 Costa Rica San José, Costa Rica Individual Women's Foil 1st[20]
2010 Costa Rica San José, Costa Rica Team Women's Foil 1st[21]
2011 United States Reno, Nevada Individual Women's Foil 1st[22]
2011 United States Reno, Nevada Team Women's Foil 1st[23]
2012 Mexico Cancún, Mexico Individual Women's Foil 1st[24]
2012 Mexico Cancún, Mexico Team Women's Foil 1st[25]
2013 Colombia Cartagena, Colombia Individual Women's Foil 1st[26]
2013 Colombia Cartagena, Colombia Team Women's Foil 1st[27]
2014 Costa Rica San José, Costa Rica Individual Women's Foil 1st[28]
2014 Costa Rica San José, Costa Rica Team Women's Foil 1st[29]
2015 Chile Santiago, Chile Individual Women's Foil 1st[30]
2015 Chile Santiago, Chile Team Women's Foil 1st[31]
2016 Panama Panama City, Panama Individual Women's Foil 1st[32]
2016 Panama Panama City, Panama Team Women's Foil 1st[33]
2017 Canada Montreal, Canada Individual Women's Foil 1st[34]
2017 Canada Montreal, Canada Team Women's Foil 1st[35]
2018 Cuba Havana, Cuba Individual Women's Foil 1st[36]
2018 Cuba Havana, Cuba Team Women's Foil 1st[37]
2019 Canada Toronto, Canada Team Women's Foil 1st[38]
2022 Paraguay Asunción, Paraguay Individual Women's Foil 2nd[39]
2022 Paraguay Asunción, Paraguay Team Women's Foil 2nd[40]

Grand Prix

Date Location Event Position
2016-03-11 Cuba Havana, Cuba Individual Women's Foil 2nd[41]
2016-06-03 China Shanghai, China Individual Women's Foil 2nd[42]
2016-12-02 Italy Turin, Italy Individual Women's Foil 1st[43]
2017-03-17 United States Long Beach, California Individual Women's Foil 1st[44]
2018-03-17 United States Anaheim, California Individual Women's Foil 3rd[45]
2019-05-17 China Shanghai, China Individual Women's Foil 3rd[46]
2020-02-07 Italy Turin, Italy Individual Women's Foil 2nd[47]
2022-05-14 South Korea Incheon, South Korea Individual Women's Foil 1st[48]

World Cup

Date Location Event Position
2014-11-07 France Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France Individual Women's Foil 2nd[49]
2015-02-06 Algeria Algier, Algeria Individual Women's Foil 1st[50]
2015-11-06 France Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France Individual Women's Foil 3rd[51]
2016-05-20 Germany Tauberbischofsheim, Germany Individual Women's Foil 3rd[52]
2017-02-03 Poland Gdańsk, Poland Individual Women's Foil 3rd[53]
2017-04-28 Germany Tauberbischofsheim, Germany Individual Women's Foil 1st[54]
2017-10-13 Mexico Cancún, Mexico Individual Women's Foil 1st[55]
2018-01-12 Poland Katowice, Poland Individual Women's Foil 2nd[56]
2018-04-27 Germany Tauberbischofsheim, Germany Individual Women's Foil 3rd[57]
2019-01-11 Poland Katowice, Poland Individual Women's Foil 3rd[58]
2019-03-01 Egypt Cairo, Egypt Individual Women's Foil 3rd[59]
2019-12-13 France Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France Individual Women's Foil 3rd[60]
2020-01-10 Poland Katowice, Poland Individual Women's Foil 3rd[61]
2021-12-10 France Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France Individual Women's Foil 2nd[62]
2022-02-25 Mexico Guadalajara, Mexico Individual Women's Foil 2nd[63]
2022-04-15 Serbia Belgrade, Serbia Individual Women's Foil 3rd[64]
2022-04-29 Germany Tauberbischofsheim, Germany Individual Women's Foil 1st[65]

NCAA Championship

Year Location Event Position
2013 San Antonio, Texas Individual Women's Foil 1st[66]
Team Fencing 2nd[67]
2014 Columbus, Ohio Individual Women's Foil 1st[68]
2015 Columbus, Ohio Individual Women's Foil 1st[69]
Team Fencing 3rd[70]
2017 Indianapolis, Indiana Individual Women's Foil 1st[71]
Team Fencing 1st[72]

See also

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