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USA Men’s Team Foilists Imboden, Itkin, Meinhardt; c/o Lima 2019 Race Imboden’s decision to take a knee for the U.S. national anthem after winning the men’s team foil at the Pan American Games in Peru has taken focus from another dominant display by the USA. U.S. fencers took ten out of a possible twelve individual […]

Imboden takes his stand as U.S. fencers dominate Pan American Games

The USA’s men’s foil team has won gold at a World Fencing Championships, a historic first for the squad despite multiple recent golds at World Cup and Grand Prix events. An all-round team effort by Race Imboden, Alex Massialas, Gerek Meinhardt and Miles Chamley-Watson has ensured that the number one ranked team led early against […]

USA takes men’s team foil gold at world championships in Budapest

Lee Kiefer has fenced superbly during the final stages of the women’s team foil competition on Monday night in Budapest, helping the USA to its first medal of the 2019 Fencing World Championships. Beaten by eventual winners Russia in the semifinals (36-45), Kiefer still lead by example in the bronze medal playoff, stealing a come-from-behind […]

Kiefer delivers first medal for USA on a dramatic night of finals at the 2019 World Fencing Championships

A dramatic gold medal bout that went to a priority minute has decided the women’s épée and provided the highlight of Day 3 at the FIE’s World Fencing Championships being held in Budapest, Hungary.  Brazil’s Nathalie Moellhausen was the first fencer to be crowned world champion on the first of three nights of individual finals […]

Moellhausen wins in overtime to become Brazil’s first World Fencing Champion

Fencers from the U.S. have dominated the recently completed Pan-American Fencing Championships in Toronto, Canada, winning ten out of a possible twelve team and individual gold medals during six days of competition from June 27- July 2. While gold in both the men’s individual and team epee went to Venezuala’s Ruben Limardo and Cuba, respectively […]

U.S. Fencers assert dominance at Pan-American Championships in Toronto

The best fencers in the world have competed at their respective regional championships before they converge on the BOK Sports Hall in Budapest, Hungary for the 81st edition of the FIE’s Fencing World Championships to be held July 15 – 23. With only a couple of weeks before competition begins in the picturesque Hungarian capital, […]

World’s best tune up for Budapest

The world’s biggest fencing tournament has begun in Columbus, Ohio with more than 5,400 competitors expected to compete from 48 states and 20 different nationalities at the USA Fencing National Championships to be held between June 28 and July 7. Already the largest fencing tournament of its kind in the world, the 2019 National Championships, […]

The biggest fencing tournament in the world gets bigger