Lee Kiefer is an American right-handed foil fencer and two-time Olympic champion in women’s foil and won the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. She is the most decorated women’s foil fencer in American history.
Kiefer is a four-time NCAA champion, 12-time team Pan American champion, thirteen-time individual Pan American champion, and 2018 team world champion. She has competed in four Olympics: 2012 in London, 2016 in Rio, 2020 in Tokyo, and 2024 in Paris. Kiefer is the first American to win an individual Olympic gold medal in foil fencing.
She represented the United States in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, competing in the women’s foil and women’s team foil events on July 28 and August 1, 2024.
“I know that I can do it again and I think that’s powerful.” – Lee Kiefer on defending her Olympic title at Paris 2024. 1olympics
Lee Kiefer Biography
Lee Kiefer was born on June 15, 1994, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and she is 30 years old as of 2024. Lee is a White American who believes in the Christian religion and her height is 5′ 4″ inches. 2imdb
Lee Kiefer Education
Lee graduated from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in 2012 and from the University of Notre Dame in 2017, where she was part of the fencing team. She is currently a medical student at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
“I continued to fence, I started medical school and my perspective changed a little bit. I felt more grateful to be in the sport. Also, I was a lot smarter and stronger and I cared more in different ways.” 3olympics
Lee Kiefer Parents
Kiefer was raised by her mother, Teresa, a psychiatrist, was born in the Philippines and moved to the U.S. as a child and her father, Steve Kiefer, is a neurosurgeon and former captain of the Duke University fencing team.
Her sister, Alex Kiefer, is a former Harvard foil fencer and 2011 NCAA champion, now a doctor. Kiefer’s younger brother, Axel, was the 2015 USA Fencing National Championships Junior Gold Medalist and also fenced for the University of Notre Dame.
Lee Kiefer Husband
Lee and her fellow foil fencer Gerek Meinhardt began dating in January 2012. They both were engaged in January 2018 and married in September 2019.
Lee Kiefer Career
Kiefer won a bronze medal in women’s foil at the 2011 World Fencing Championships and placed 5th at the 2012 London Olympic Games. She won a silver medal at the Saint-Maur World Cup in the 2014–15 season and later won the Algiers World Cup in 2015. She was part of the Notre Dame trio, along with Gerek Meinhardt and Emma Reaney, who were named individual national champions in 2014.
On March 18, 2017, Kiefer became the first American woman to be ranked #1 in the FIE world rankings. She competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, and won gold in the individual foil, defeating Inna Deriglazova.
Kiefer is representing the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in women’s foil and women’s team foil. She defended her gold medal in the individual foil by defeating Lauren Scruggs in an all-USA final. 4wikipedia
“I wanted to keep fencing because I still love it and enjoy doing it. I felt like I could keep growing my skills, my routine,” she explained. “However, the biggest obstacle was the UK College of Medicine. I was not sure they would let me continue, which would have been understandable.” 5olympics
Lee Kiefer’s Net Worth
The exact figure of Lee’s net worth is not known.
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