Peter Westbrook, the first Black American fencer to win an Olympic medal and who later developed multiple Olympians while coaching underserved youth in New York, died Friday, according to his ...

The marriage ended when Peter was a young boy. Both of his parents are deceased. Ms. Wada-Westbrook, known for helping to feed the homeless in Newark, died in a horrific, widely publicized ...

Westbrook died due to complications after a long cancer battle, according to the Peter Westbrook Foundation, the nonprofit fencing organization that Westbrook started in 1991. “Peter was not only the ...

Peter Westbrook, a groundbreaking fencer who became the first African-American and Asian-American to win a medal in fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics, died on Friday, November 29 in New York City.

Peter Westbrook, a six-time Olympic fencer, was a force of nature. So when my daughter called me this week to say he had died after years of treatment for liver cancer, it landed heavily on me ...

Correction/clarification: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the number of Olympic athletes coached by Peter Westbrook. He helped develop 16 Olympians. Peter Westbrook, the ...

Peter Westbrook, a fencer who competed at five Olympics, winning a bronze medal, and started a New York City fencing academy that produced many Olympians and made a profound impact on even more ...