History Made! Team USA's Lee Kiefer Takes Gold and Lauren Scruggs Wins Silver in Their Foil Fencing Match

Team USA just earned another gold and silver — and made Scruggs the first American Black woman to win a medal for fencing

Team USA fencers Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs just faced off to earn America two more Olympic medals — and made history in the process.

Kiefer took gold and Scruggs took silver in women's individual foil on July 28 in Paris during the 2024 Summer Games. The final score was 15-6, and the women shared a hug following the event's completion.

It was the first time the women's foil final at the Olympics has featured two American competitors. Scruggs is now the first Black American woman to medal in the event. Lee previously won gold in foil fencing during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

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Both Kiefer and Scruggs will next fence together in the women's team foil event after a little break — that competition doesn't begin until Aug. 1.

Ahead of her big moment on Sunday, Kiefer said that winning her first gold in Tokyo came with "so much heightened emotion," according to the official Olympics website. "I was honestly in disbelief,” she recounted during a press conference in Paris. "And to this day, I still have that feeling."

This Games, meanwhile, were the first for Scruggs, who competes for Harvard University as an undergrad.

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