Peter Westbrook was the first African-American and Asian-American to medal in Olympic fencing, later launching a foundation to increase representation in the sport. Peter Westbrook, a groundbreaking ...

Peter Westbrook is determined to make fencing available to more people of color. The son of a Japanese mother and Black father, Westbrook, who won a bronze medal in fencing in the 1984 Summer Olympics ...

Americans Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs competed in Olympic fencing championship. In a fencing championship that matched two American women, Lauren Scruggs won the silver, but achieved a gold medal ...

After Scruggs, 21, became the first Black American woman to win an individual Olympic fencing medal, she clinched gold for the U.S. team. By Alexandra E. Petri After Lauren Scruggs clinched the gold ...

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.