Peter westbrook biography
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Peter Westbrook is a legendary U.S. Sabre Champion, a visionary leader, inspirational mentor, and founder of the Peter Westbrook Foundation (PWF).
Peter westbrook biography
The Guinness Book of World Records lists Peter Westbrook as the all-time winning American record holder for thirteen U.S. National Sabre championships. Peter is a six-time
Olympian—competing in his first Olympics in 1976 and the first African-Asian American Olympic Sabre-Fencing Champion, capturing a bronze medal in the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
In addition to holding three gold medals from the Pan-American games where he competed on six-teams, Peter was honored by his fellow Olympians, as the flag bearer for the United States during the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Olympic Games.
Peter Westbrook, a cancer survivor, is no stranger to struggle.
Peter was born in Kansas City, Missouri to a Japanese mother and an African American father. A child of the 1950’s, Peter was raised lacking in economic means by his mother and as a teen he fac