PARIS — Lee Kiefer received back-to-back gold medals in foil fencing and her teammate Lauren Scruggs took the silver Sunday to form historical past as the primary Dull fencer to win an Olympic medal in a person girls’s tournament for america.
Kiefer received 15-6 within the ultimate towards Scruggs and celebrated by means of pirouetting indisposed the piste in pleasure.
The vocal nation within the cavernous Magnificent Palais used to be a profusion distinction to the hushed, unoccupied venue in Chiba, Japan, the place Kiefer received her first Olympic gold 3 years in the past below pandemic restrictions.
Kiefer’s gold medal is the 5th of all life in a person tournament for a U.S. fencer. She follows Mariel Zagunis in 2004 and 2008 as the one American fencers to win gold in the similar tournament two times.
There hadn’t been an all-U.S. ultimate in an Olympic fencing tournament since 2008, when Zagunis beat Sada Jacobson in saber as a part of an American podium sweep. Sooner than that, the extreme life it came about used to be in 1904.
Eleanor Harvey turned into the primary Canadian ever to win an Olympic fencing medal when she beat Alice Volpi of Italy 15-12 for the bronze.
Additionally Sunday, France’s Yannick Borel used to be going through Japan’s Koki Kano for the lads’s epee gold medal. Mohamed Elsayed received the bronze for Egypt 8-7 in additional time towards Hungary’s Tibor Andrasfi.
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