Background
Smart was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City.
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Keeth Smart
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Education
Columbia University; Saint John"s University.
Career
Smart graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1996. He graduated from Saint John"s University in New York, majoring in finance. He received his Master of Business Administration from Columbia University in 2010 and now works at a major bank.
He has competed in three Olympic Games.
In 2003, he became the first American to be named the top-ranked fencer internationally.
Achievements
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He received a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. At the urging of his parents, he and his younger sister Erinn began to learn fencing at the Peter Westbrook Foundation, whose founder, Olympic sabre bronze-medalist Peter Westbrook, was his mentor. During college, he was the National Collegiate Athletic Association sabre champion in 1997 and 1999, and took second place in 2001. In the individual Olympic men"s sabre competition, he placed 30th in the 2000 Olympic Games, 15th in 2004, 4th in the team event, 6th in 2008, and he won the silver medal in the team event. In 2002 and 2004, Smart won the United States national sabre championship.
Membership
He was a member of the 1999 Pan American Games bronze medal team
