Inside that costume was Piper Randolph, a first-team All-American junior fencer who excelled in the Pan-American Cadet ...

“What appears to you as two players on the podium, they were actually three!” Hafez shared on Instagram Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — USA Fencing disqualified a fencer from a women’s tournament in Maryland after she refused to face an opponent whom she says is transgender. Stephanie Turner was competing on ...

Turkish fencer Doruk Erolcevik secured the gold medal after defeating Osama Eslam from Egypt in the under-17 Men's Epee ...

During the competition March 30 at the University of Maryland, fencer Stephanie Turner took a knee before her match against transgender student Redmond Sullivan. Turner was then given a black card by ...

Lausanne, Switzerland — French Olympic fencer Ysaora Thibus was cleared of a doping allegation Monday because the judges accepted she was contaminated by kissing her American partner over a period of ...

A transgender female fencer picked up an eighth world championship on Sunday at the 2023 FIE Veteran Fencing World Championships. Liz Kocab won in the Vet Women’s Epee over 14-time champion ...

Fencer Stephanie Turner spoke out about some of the difficulties that came with her decision to take a knee in protest of competing against a transgender athlete during a competition. Turner was ...

A transgender fencer, who competed in a USA Fencing-sponsored tournament and was at the center of controversy after an opponent protested against the organization’s gender-participation policies, is ...

For the first time in a decade, a Stanford Cardinal fencer is the NCAA champion. Her coach, four-time Olympian Alexander Massialas, was the last person to win that title at the university. Massialas, ...

Ysaora Thibus was facing a four-year suspension from fencing before the appeal was dismissed Daniel Derajinski/Icon Sport via Getty French fencer Ysaora Thibus has been cleared of doping accusations ...

Eli Dershwitz and a teammate on the U.S. Olympic Fencing team stood ready, their feet apart, knees bent and sabres pointed up. Another teammate said, “Ready, fence!” and the two lunged at each other, ...