Fans of the Kentucky Wildcats eagerly watched Team USA win their first basketball game at the Olympics on Sunday, and many watched Team Canada and South Sudan open up with wins too. However, many may have missed Lee Kiefer getting a second gold medal in fencing.
Kiefer won her first gold medal at the 2020 Olympics and was the first American to take gold in Olympic individual foil. This year, in Paris, she has done it again, beating fellow American Lauren Scruggs 15 – 6 in the final.
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The gold medalist is a medical student at Kentucky, and put her studies on hold to compete in Paris along with her husband Gerek Meinhardt. Meinhardt will compete at the Paris Olympics as well.
Kiefer, though, has won another gold, making her the first representative of the University of Kentucky to claim one. Big Blue Nation full congratulates her on a tremendous accomplishment, and wishes good luck to Meinhardt.