Samuel Kwong (born January 1, 1998, in

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) is an American

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fencer. He is a multiple-time national champion.

Achievements

Kwong held the national #1 rank in each concluding year of Youth-10, Youth-12, and Youth-14. Altogether he won 10 North American Cup top-8 finalist medals between 2009 and 2013—including 3 gold and 3 bronze. In 2013 he won the Youth-14 National Championship in

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, and in 2016 he won the Division I-A National Championship in

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. He was the youngest male

fencer in the United States with an A rating in the 2012-2013 season and the youngest men's sabre fencer to represent United States internationally in the 2012-2013 season, at 14 years old winning United States's first medal for the season at the 2012 Cadet European Circuit in

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. He won an Under-17 bronze medal at the 2013 Junior Olympics in

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and as team captain an Under-19 team gold medal at the 2015 Junior Olympics in

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. At the 2016 USA Fencing Summer Nationals in

, Kwong won three medals in a row, becoming the only fencer to have won three medals on three consecutive days in Junior and Senior national events. He won bronze in the Junior Men's Saber Challenge, gold in the Division I-A Men's Saber National Championship, and bronze in the Division I Men's Saber Challenge. As a freshman for Stanford he won gold at the 2017 NCAA Western Regional Championships. He did not compete in his sophomore year. As a junior he returned and won another gold at the 2019 NCAA Western Regional Championships.

Personal

He is the son of Raymond and Emma Kwong and the younger brother of

Princeton Kwong Princeton Kwong (born November 14, 1989 in Fremont, California) is an American figure skater who represented the United States as a single skater. He is the 2004 U.S. novice national gold medalist,

, an American national champion figure skater.

References

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