Lee Kiefer

Lee Kiefer (born June 15, 1994) is an American two-time olympian, four-time NCAA champion, and current world #3 rank American foil fencer.[1]

Lee Kiefer
Personal information
Born (1994-06-15) June 15, 1994
Cleveland, OH, United States
ResidenceLexington, KY, United States
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight45 kg (99 lb)
Sport
CountryUnited States
SportFencing
WeaponFoil
Handright-handed
ClubBluegrass Fencers Club
Head coachAmgad Khazbak
FIE rankingcurrent ranking

Career

Kiefer grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and her father 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 on the team and graduated in 2017. She is now a medical student at the University of Kentucky.

Her sister is Harvard foil fencer and NCAA champion Alex Kiefer. Kiefer also has a younger brother, Axel, who has fenced in a number of junior and cadet world cups and posted a number of high results both domestically and internationally, and who also attends and fences foil for the University of Notre Dame as of 2015.

Lee and fellow US Olympic fencer Gerek Meinhardt have been dating since January 13, 2012 (6 years as of 2018). They got engaged on January 1, 2018 and got married on 1 September 2019.

Kiefer earned a bronze medal in Women's foil at the 2011 World Fencing Championships.[2] 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.[3] 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.

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.

References
  1. US Fencing profile
  2. "Paul Dunbar's Lee Kiefer takes fencing bronze in Italy". Lexington Herald Leader. October 11, 2011.
  3. "Scherma, coppa del Mondo di fioretto: bis della Errigo, primo podio per Cassarà". Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). November 8, 2014.



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