(UPDATE) PARIS — American defending champion Lee Kiefer won the women's foil as Koki Kano became Japan's first individual epee Olympic champion on Sunday, beating France's Yannick Borel, 15-9, in Paris Games.

Kiefer, whose mother Teresa Oropilla Kiefer hails from Davao, beat compatriot Lauren Scruggs, 15-6, in the finals. Kiefer was rarely troubled by Scruggs in winning her second successive individual title.

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