FCPS Celebrates Olympic Gold Medalist!

Lexington’s Lee Kiefer defended her foil fencing title in the 2024 Summer Olympics and won a second gold medal in Paris in the team competition a few days later. The 2012 graduate of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, now a medical school student at the University of Kentucky, is the most decorated female fencer in U.S. history.

“I really wanted to put on a good show because my family’s here and they wanted to be there in Tokyo,” the 30-year-old Kiefer said in an interview on CNBC after her individual victory. “I just wanted to be able to fence pretty, and the results came.”

A four-time Olympian, she became the first U.S. fencer (male or female) to win gold in foil at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games. Then on a Sunday afternoon in France, she defeated fellow American Lauren Scruggs 15-6 in the women’s finals.

Source: Herald-Leader

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