May Tieu

May Lee Tieu
Tieu in 2018
Sport
Country United States
SportFencing
Medal record
Women's foil
Representing  United States
Youth Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Buenos Aires Girls' foil
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Verona Team
Gold medal – first place 2021 Cairo Individual
Silver medal – second place 2021 Cairo Team
Cadets World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 Verona Individual

May Lee Tieu is a Chinese-American Olympic foil fencer.[1] She participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in the fencing competition, winning the bronze medal in the girls' foil event.[2] At the 2021 World Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships she won the gold medal in the individual foil, and bronze in the team foil.[3][4] In 2019 she received the Jack Kelly Fair Play Award.[5] As of April 2023, she has retired from competitive fencing.

  1. ^ Ghosh, Sreesha (April 7, 2021). "Tieu earns third career World Fencing Championship medal". The Daily Princetonian. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  2. ^ Zaccardi, Nick (October 8, 2018). "Fencer earns first U.S. medal of Youth Olympics after sportsmanship act". NBC Sports. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  3. ^ "Junior-Cadet World Championships Cairo 2021 Results". Fencing Time. April 3, 2021. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  4. ^ Houston, Michael (April 6, 2021). "Kozlov and Tieu win junior foil world titles in Cairo". Inside the Games. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  5. ^ Jomantas, Nicole (September 13, 2019). "May Tieu Honored with Jack Kelly Fair Play Award". United States Fencing Association. Retrieved June 22, 2022.