| Lee Kiefer | |
|---|---|
 Kiefer in 2014 | |
| Personal information | |
| Born | June 15, 1994 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  United States |
| 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] Her foil fencing victory at the Olympics made her the first non-European woman to do so.[clarification needed]
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.
- ^ "KIEFER Lee". Paris 2024 Olympics. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ "Kiefer, Lee". The International Fencing Federation official website. Retrieved July 27, 2021.
- ^ Kudialis, Chris (July 28, 2024). "Notre Dame's Lee Kiefer repeats as Olympic champion with blowout win over fellow American". Notre Dame Insider. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
- ^ Cindy Boren. "An American medical student from a fencing family wins a historic gold medal". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 25, 2021.