Welcome to the hub for the 2023 Pan American Games, with fencing competition held Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, 2023, in Santiago, Chile. We'll update this page regularly before and during the tournament!
The fencing competition at the Pan Am Games features fewer competitors than the FIE Fencing World Championships or Olympic Games.
At the FIE Fencing World Championships, countries can send up to four athletes per weapon, and all four can compete in both the individual and team events. At the Olympics, those countries that qualify a full team send three athletes for the individual and team events and one replacement athlete available for the team event only.
At the Pan Am Games, however, only two athletes per weapon compete in the individual fencing events. A third athlete is permitted to participate in the team event only, meaning every nation competing in the team event will have just three fencers (with no fourth/replacement athlete).
The lineup for Team USA looks like this, with the first two fencers listed competing in individual and team and the third competing in team only.
Lee Kiefer OLY
Age: 29
Club: Bluegrass Fencers’ Club
Hometown: Lexington, Ky.
Jackie Dubrovich OLY
Age: 29
Club: New Jersey Fencing Alliance
Hometown: Riverdale, N.J.
Zander Rhodes
Age: 20
Club: V Fencing Club, Columbia University
Hometown: South Orange, N.J.
Gerek Meinhardt OLY
Age: 33
Club: Massialas Foundation, Bluegrass Fencers’ Club
Hometown: Lexington, Ky.
Nick Itkin OLY
Age: 24
Club: Los Angeles International Fencing Center
Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif.
Miles Chamley-Watson OLY
Age: 33
Club: Los Angeles International Fencing Center
Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif.
Magda Skarbonkiewicz
Age: 17
Club: Oregon Fencing Alliance
Hometown: Portland, Ore.
Maia Chamberlain
Age: 25
Club: Manhattan Fencing Center, Advance Fencing and Fitness Academy
Hometown: Menlo Park, Calif.
Alexis Anglade
Age: 22
Club: Bergen Fencing Club, Princeton University
Hometown: Alpharetta, Ga.
Andrew Doddo
Age: 25
Club: New Jersey Fencing Alliance
Hometown: South Orange, N.J.
Filip Dolegiewicz
Age: 23
Club: Midwest Fencing Club
Hometown: Park Ridge, Ill.
Josef Cohen
Age: 25
Club: Peter Westbrook Foundation, Fencers Club
Hometown: Barrington, R.I.
Curtis McDowald OLY
Age: 27
Clubs: Peter Westbrook Foundation, Fencers Club
Hometown: Queens, N.Y.
Samuel Imrek
Age: 18
Club: Alliance Fencing Academy
Hometown: Missouri City, Texas
Samuel Larsen
Age: 34
Club: Northwest Fencing Center
Hometown: Beaverton, Ore.
Ages are as of the start of fencing competition at the Pan Am Games
Each qualified country is allowed to send two fencers for the individual event, plus a third who competes only in the team event. Team USA qualified teams in five of six weapons: Men’s Epee, Women’s Foil, Men’s Foil, Women’s Saber and Men’s Saber.
Fencing results at the Pan Am Games don’t count toward qualification for the Paris Olympics. But fencers who do well in Santiago will hope to carry that momentum into their first FIE competitions of the season in November. Paris qualification runs through April, and our Paris Tracker can be found here.
For each weapon at the Pan Am Games, we’re sending the top three individuals on the USA Fencing Senior National Team Point Standings as of the 2023 Senior World Team selection date.
Fencers ranked first and second fence in both the individual and team events, while the third-ranked fencer competes in the team event only.
If a fencer chose to decline their nomination to the 2023 Pan American Games, USA Fencing allocated their spot to the next-highest-ranked fencer on the Senior National Team Point Standings as of the original selection date.
Team USA Medals at the 2023 Pan American Games
At the 2019 Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru, the United States medaled in 10 of 12 fencing events, earning individual and team gold in every discipline except Men’s Epee.
Here were the Team USA gold medalists from 2019:
Women's Events
Individual Epee: Kat Holmes OLY
Team Epee: Isis Washington, Kasia Nixon, Kat Holmes OLY
Individual Foil: Lee Kiefer OLY
Team Foil: Nicole Ross OLY, Lee Kiefer OLY, Jacqueline Dubrovich OLY
Individual Saber: Eliza Stone OLY
Team Saber: Monica Aksamit OLY, Chloe Fox-Gitomer, Eliza Stone OLY
Men's Events
Individual Foil: Gerek Meinhardt OLY
Team Foil: Race Imboden OLY, Nick Itkin OLY, Gerek Meinhardt OLY
Individual Saber: Daryl Homer OLY
Team Saber: Jeffrey Spear OLY, Eli Dershwitz OLY, Daryl Homer OLY