Lee Kiefer

Lee Kiefer
Kiefer in 2014
Personal information
Born (1994-06-15) June 15, 1994
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
Country United States
WeaponFoil
HandRight-handed
ClubBluegrass Fencers Club
Head coachAmgad Khazbak
FIE ranking1 (women's foil, May 2025)
Medal record
Women's foil
Representing the  United States
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 0 0
World Championships 1 2 4
Pan American Games 7 1 0
Pan American Championships 22 3 0
Total 33 6 4
Olympic Games
2020 TokyoIndividual
2024 ParisIndividual
2024 ParisTeam
World Championships
2018 WuxiTeam
2017 LeipzigTeam
2022 CairoTeam
2011 CataniaIndividual
2019 BudapestTeam
2022 CairoIndividual
2023 MilanIndividual
Pan American Games
2011 GuadalajaraIndividual
2011 GuadalajaraTeam
2015 TorontoIndividual
2019 LimaIndividual
2019 LimaTeam
2023 SantiagoIndividual
2023 SantiagoTeam
2015 TorontoTeam
Pan American Championships
2010 San JoséIndividual
2010 San JoséTeam
2011 RenoIndividual
2011 RenoTeam
2012 CancúnIndividual
2012 CancúnTeam
2013 CartagenaIndividual
2013 CartagenaTeam
2014 San JoséIndividual
2014 San JoséTeam
2015 SantiagoIndividual
2015 SantiagoTeam
2016 Panama CityIndividual
2016 Panama CityTeam
2017 MontrealIndividual
2017 MontrealTeam
2018 HavanaIndividual
2018 HavanaTeam
2019 TorontoTeam
2023 LimaIndividual
2024 LimaIndividual
2024 LimaTeam
2022 AsunciónIndividual
2022 AsunciónTeam
2023 LimaTeam

Lee Kiefer (/ˈkfər/ KEE-fər; born June 15, 1994) is an American right-handed foil fencer 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.

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. Her foil fencing victory at the Olympics made her the second non-European woman to do so, after Luan Jujie.

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.