Fencing made its Olympic debut in 1896 in Athens at the first modern Olympics. It’s one of five sports that has been included ...

PARIS (AP) — When attendees entered the Grand Palais Monday for early afternoon Paris Olympics fencing bouts, they couldn't help but stop and look around before going to their seats. They gazed ...

Peter Westbrook, a groundbreaking fencer who became the first African-American and Asian-American to win a medal in fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics, died on Friday, November 29 in New York City.

Westbrook’s pioneering achievements in fencing ... placed athletes on every American Olympic team from the 2000 Sydney Games through the Paris Games this summer. Five have won medals.

(Clarissa Sosin / New York Daily News via Getty Images) Clarissa Sosin Peter Westbrook, who became the first Black fencer to win an Olympic medal for the U.S., then started a New York City fencing ...

The Roaring Fork Fencers Club, based in Aspen and Glenwood Springs, is hosting a destination winter fencing camp featuring Jackie Dubrovich, a gold medalist in women’s team foil at the 2024 Paris ...

His death, in a hospital, followed a two-year battle with liver cancer, said Robert Cottingham, a former Olympic teammate and the chair of a foundation Westbrook began in 1991 to bring fencing and ...

"Fencing is like a chess game, it's about anticipating others. I was surprised, I got touched twice in a row, and I immediately understood, it's like losing your bishop and your queen, it's hard ...

Olympic fencer Peter Westbrook passed away on Nov. 29 at the age of 72 leaving behind a legacy almost impossible to calculate.