Peter Westbrook, (born April 16, 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.), American fencer who, on the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, gained a bronze medal, the primary African American to win an Olympic medal within the sport.
Westbrook started taking fencing classes on the urging of his Japanese mom (her brother was a well-known kendo grasp in Japan). He was attracted directly to the sabre, which developed rapidly into his specialty. Eventually he turned a pupil of the nice Hungarian grasp Csaba Elthes.
Westbrook was a member of each U.S. Olympic fencing group from 1976 by way of 1996. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, he positioned third within the particular person sabre competitors to turn out to be the primary American to win an Olympic fencing medal since 1960. At the world championships in 1989, Westbrook completed eighth within the males’s particular person sabre. He gained the U.S. National Individual Sabre Championship 13 instances—1974–75, 1979–86, 1988–89, and 1995—an unparalleled file in U.S. fencing. He was named to the United States Fencing Association Hall of Fame in 1996.
In 1991 Westbrook began the Peter Westbrook Foundation, a company devoted to serving to deprived youngsters achieve constructive attitudes and abilities by way of fencing. His autobiography, Harnessing Anger: The Way of an American Fencer, was printed in 1997.