Editing Keeth Smart (section)

==Fencing career==
Smart's fencing coach was [[Yury Gelman]].<ref name="auto"/>

During college, Smart was the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] sabre champion in 1997 and 1999, and took second place in 2001.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/90866|title=Olympedia – Keeth Smart|website=www.olympedia.org}}</ref>

He was a member of the 1999 [[Pan American Games]] bronze medal team.

Smart competed in three [[Summer Olympic Games|Olympic Games]] in men's saber.<ref name="auto1"/>  He placed 30th in the individual competition in the [[2000 Olympic Games]]. He then placed 15th in the individual competition and 4th in the team competition at the [[2004 Olympic Games]].<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/>

He placed 6th in the individual competition at the [[2008 Olympic Games]], defeating eventual three-time individual Olympic champion [[Áron Szilágyi]] along the way, and won a [[silver medal]] in the 2008 team event.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/> In the saber team semi-finals the United States had been losing to Russia 40–35, before Smart outscored Russian [[Stanislav Pozdnyakov]] 10–4 for the win, with Team USA beating the Russians 45–44, allowing the Americans to go on to win the silver medal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/sports/olympics/18vecsey.html|title=Fencer and His Team Rise Above a Lot|first=George|last=Vecsey|date=August 17, 2008|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usafencing.org/news_article/show/204972-turnabout-us-saber-team-wins-twice-by-a-point|title=Turnabout: US saber team wins twice by a point|date=August 17, 2008|website=USA Fencing}}</ref> It was the first Olympic medal for the US men's saber team since 1948.<ref name="auto"/>

His sister Erinn also earned a silver medal as part of the US women's foil team at the 2008 Olympics.<ref name="Three Musketeers" /><ref name="auto"/>

In 2002 and 2004, Smart won the US national sabre championship. In 2003, he became the first American to be named the top-ranked fencer internationally.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto2"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/sports/fencing-fencer-from-brooklyn-earns-top-world-ranking.html|title=Fencing; Fencer from Brooklyn Earns Top World Ranking|first=Lena|last=Williams|date=March 28, 2003|work=The New York Times}}</ref>