Highlights of the bout between Lee Kiefer (FIE Rank 2) of the USA against Inna Deriglazova (FIE Rank 1) of Russia in the Final of the Women’s Individual Foil Fencing event at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.
Deriglazova (age 31) is the reigning Olympic Champion from the Rio Olympics; has been World Number 1 for every season since the season of 2016-17; was World Champion in 2015, 2017, and 2019; and has won almost everything during this Olympic cycle. Deriglazova’s coach Ildar Mavlyutov has recently passed away.
Kiefer (age…I donno 16?) is a very prominent fencer also. She has been ranked in the top 5 since the season of 2014-15, and was a member of the USA team that won the World Championships in the Women Team Foil Event in 2018. However, Kiefer has no previous Olympic medals and only one individual World Championships medal (from Catania 2011). Kiefer is actually