Lee Kiefer | |
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![]() Kiefer in 2014 | |
Personal information | |
Born | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | June 15, 1994
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | ![]() |
Sport | Fencing |
Weapon | Foil |
Hand | Right-handed |
Club | Bluegrass Fencers Club |
Head coach | Amgad Khazbak |
FIE ranking | 1 (women's foil, August 2024) |
Medal record |
Lee Kiefer (/ˈkiːfər/ KEE-fər; born June 15, 1994)[1] is an American right-handed foil fencer[2] and three-time Olympic champion in women's foil, having won the individual event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the individual and team events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She is the most decorated women's foil fencer in American history.[3]
Kiefer is an NCAA team champion, a four-time NCAA individual champion, a 12-time team Pan American champion, a 13-time individual Pan American champion, and the 2018 team world champion. A four-time Olympian, Kiefer is a 2020 and 2024 individual Olympic champion. She is the first American foil fencer in history to win an individual Olympic gold medal.[4]
Kiefer competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. She represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, in women's foil and women's team foil (with Jackie Dubrovich, Lauren Scruggs, and Maia Weintraub), winning gold medals in both.
Fencing career
[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/United_States_St_Maur_2015_eq_t093058.jpg/300px-United_States_St_Maur_2015_eq_t093058.jpg)
Kiefer was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Lexington, Kentucky.[5] Her mother Teresa, a psychiatrist, was born in Pilar, Capiz, Philippines and immigrated to the U.S. 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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8]
Kiefer earned a bronze medal in women's foil at the 2011 World Fencing Championships.[9] 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.[10] 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 her future husband, 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.[11]
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.[12] In the final, she defeated Inna Deriglazova, the defending champion from Russia, with a score of 15–13 to win gold,[13][14] becoming the first American, male or female, to win the gold medal in Olympic individual foil.[15]
She represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, in the women's foil and women's team foil, winning gold medals in both.[16] Kiefer defended her gold medal in the individual foil, defeating Lauren Scruggs in the all-USA final.
Personal life
[edit]Lee and fellow foil fencer Gerek Meinhardt began dating in January 2012. They were engaged in January 2018 and married in September 2019.
Medal record
[edit]Olympic Games
[edit]Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2021 | ![]() |
Women's individual foil | 1st[17] |
2024 | ![]() |
Women's individual foil | 1st[18] |
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Women's team foil | 1st[19] |
World Championship
[edit]Year | Location | Event | Position |
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2011 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[20] |
2017 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[21] |
2018 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[22] |
2019 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 3rd[23] |
2022 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[24] |
2022 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[25] |
2023 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[26] |
Grand Prix
[edit]Date | Location | Event | Position |
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2016-03-11 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[27] |
2016-06-03 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[28] |
2016-12-02 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[29] |
2017-03-17 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[30] |
2018-03-17 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[31] |
2019-05-17 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[32] |
2020-02-07 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[33] |
2022-05-14 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[34] |
2023-03-17 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[35] |
2023-05-19 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[36] |
2024-02-10 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[37] |
2024-03-17 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[38] |
2024-05-18 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[39] |
World Cup
[edit]Date | Location | Event | Position |
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2014-11-07 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[40] |
2015-02-06 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[41] |
2015-11-06 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[42] |
2016-05-20 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[43] |
2017-02-03 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[44] |
2017-04-28 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[45] |
2017-10-13 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[46] |
2018-01-12 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[47] |
2018-04-27 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[48] |
2019-01-11 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[49] |
2019-03-01 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[50] |
2019-12-13 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[51] |
2020-01-10 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[52] |
2021-12-10 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[53] |
2022-02-25 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[54] |
2022-04-15 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[55] |
2022-04-29 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[56] |
2022-12-09 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[57] |
2022-12-09 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[58] |
2023-01-12 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[59] |
2023-02-23 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 3rd[60] |
2023-02-23 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[61] |
2023-05-05 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[62] |
2023-12-09 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[63] |
2024-02-24 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[64] |
Pan American Championship
[edit]Year | Location | Event | Position |
---|---|---|---|
2010 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[65] |
2010 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[66] |
2011 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[67] |
2011 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[68] |
2012 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[69] |
2012 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[70] |
2013 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[71] |
2013 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[72] |
2014 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[73] |
2014 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[74] |
2015 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[75] |
2015 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[76] |
2016 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[77] |
2016 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[78] |
2017 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[79] |
2017 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[80] |
2018 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[81] |
2018 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[82] |
2019 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[83] |
2022 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 2nd[84] |
2022 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[85] |
2023 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[86] |
2023 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 2nd[87] |
2024 | ![]() |
Individual Women's Foil | 1st[88] |
2024 | ![]() |
Team Women's Foil | 1st[89] |
NCAA Championship
[edit]Year | Location | Event | Position |
---|---|---|---|
2013 | San Antonio, Texas | Individual Women's Foil | 1st[90] |
Team Fencing | 2nd[91] | ||
2014 | Columbus, Ohio | Individual Women's Foil | 1st[92] |
2015 | Columbus, Ohio | Individual Women's Foil | 1st[93] |
Team Fencing | 3rd[94] | ||
2017 | Indianapolis, Indiana | Individual Women's Foil | 1st[95] |
Team Fencing | 1st[96] |
See also
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