Fencer May Tieu lent one of her foil weapons to an opponent at the Youth Olympics, then beat her (twice) en route to the first U.S. medal of the Buenos Aires Games (a bronze) on Sunday.

Tieu, 17, gave Togo’s Grace Senyo her extra weapon after learning that Senyo didn’t have any that passed weapons check, according to TeamUSA.org and U.S. Fencing.

“There are too many times that I had to borrow something and someone always stepped up to help,” Tieu said, according to U.S. Fencing. “It only made sense and it really didn’t pose a problem in my mind.”

Tieu then faced Senyo in pool play and the round of 16, easily winning both bouts, including 15-1 in the latter. Tieu eventually lost to an Italian fencer in the semifinals but won a bronze-medal bout 8-7 in overtime.

Tieu, who is 17th in the world junior rankings, became the fourth American to earn an individual fencing medal in the three editions of the Youth Olympics. The others include 2010 Youth Olympic silver medalist Alexander Massialas, who went on to earn another silver at the Rio Olympics.

Massialas’ father, Greg, is head coach of the U.S. fencing team in Buenos Aires.

“This was like a Youth Olympics moment,” Greg Massialas said of Tieu’s sportsmanship, according to TeamUSA.org. “This is the kind of thing you see here that maybe you wouldn’t see as much at the Olympic Games.”

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