Iris Zimmermann

Iris Zimmermann fenced foil at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, finishing fourth with the US team and 11th individually. She competed with her sister, Felicia, who also fenced at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Iris Zimmermann fenced in college at Stanford, as did her sister. In 1995, when she was only 14, she won the World U-17 Championship in foil, the first individual World title by any American, and she defended that title in 1996. At senior Worlds, she won bronze medals in individual foil in 1999 and team foil in 2001. She competed at the World Championships in 1997, 1999, 2001-02, and 2005-07. She also won a bronze in team foil at the 1999 Pan American Games and a silver in team foil at the 1999 World University Games.

Iris and Felicia Zimmermann grew up in Rochester, New York and trained at the Rochester Fencing Club. In 2009 they bought the club.