Ivan Lee
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Birth name | Ivan James Lee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brooklyn, New York, United States |
March 31, 1981 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Men's Sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | St. John's University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Peter Westbrook Foundation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Yury Gelman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ivan Lee (born Ivan James Lee, March 31, 1981 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American sabre fencer.
He was a member of the 2001 U.S. Junior World Sabre team, anchoring the team to its first men's world title at the 2001 Junior World Championships in Gdansk, Poland, and also becoming the first man of African American descent to win a world fencing championship. He was also a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team in Athens, placing 12th in the individual competition and 4th in the team competition, missing the bronze medal by one point. Ivan was inducted into the United States Fencing Association Hall of Fame in 2014.
Lee graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn, New York in 1999, earning a full scholarship to St. John's University in Queens, New York. At St. John's, Lee won 2 NCAA individual sabre titles and, along with fellow Olympian and long time clubmate and friend Keeth Smart, led the school to its first Division 1 national championship in 2001. For his accomplishments on the collegiate, national and international levels, he was awarded the USOC's Male Athlete of the Year Award for fencing in 2001. He went on to take double gold at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo. He graduated in January 2004 with a bachelor's degree in Journalism.
Olympians Ivan Lee and Keeth Smart square off for the gold
Peter Westbrook Foundation
2004 Fencing Olympians from Peter Westbrook Foundation, Keeth Smart, Erinn Smart, Ivan Lee, and Kamara James (l-r)