Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's team épée

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Men's team épée
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Fencing pictogram.svg
Olympic fencing
Venue Grand Palais strip
Date2 August 2024
Competitors32 from 8 nations
Teams8
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Máté Tamás Koch
Tibor Andrásfi
Gergely Siklósi
Dávid Nagy
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Silver medal icon.svg Akira Komata
Koki Kano
Masaru Yamada
Kazuyasu Minobe
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Bronze medal icon.svg Jiří Beran
Jakub Jurka
Martin Rubeš
Michal Čupr
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
  2020
2028  

The men's team épée event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 2 August 2024 at the Grand Palais strip. [1] 24 fencers (eight teams of three) from eight nations competed. [2]

Japan were the defending champions, but lost to Hungary in the final.

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a team of three fencers in the men's team épée. These fencers also automatically qualified for the individual event. [2]

Competition format

The tournament was a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match featured the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with nine three-minute bouts to five points; the winning team was the one that reaches 45 total points first or was leading after the end of the nine bouts. [3]

Schedule

The competition was held over a single day. [4]

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

DateTimeRound
Friday, 2 August 202414:20
16:40
17:30
17:30
19:30
20:30
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Classification 7/8
Classification 5/6
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match

Results

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
Flag of France.svg  France 45
 
 
 
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 39
 
Flag of France.svg  France 30
 
 
 
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 45
 
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 45
 
 
 
Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan 30
 
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 26
 
 
 
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 25
 
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 39
 
 
 
Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela 33
 
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 45
 
 
 
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 37 Bronze medal bout
 
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 43
 
 
 
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 38
 
Flag of France.svg  France 41
 
 
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 43
 

5–8th place classification

 
5–8th place semifinalsFifth place bout
 
      
 
 
 
 
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 21
 
 
 
Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan 36
 
Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan 36
 
 
 
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 45
 
Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela 34
 
 
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 45
 
Seventh place bout
 
 
 
 
 
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 35
 
 
Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela 41

Final classification

RankTeamAthletes
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Máté Tamás Koch
Tibor Andrásfi
Gergely Siklósi
Dávid Nagy
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Japan.svg  Japan Akira Komata
Koki Kano
Masaru Yamada
Kazuyasu Minobe
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Jiří Beran
Jakub Jurka
Martin Rubeš
Michal Čupr
4Flag of France.svg  France Paul Allègre
Luidgi Midelton
Yannick Borel
Romain Cannone
5Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Andrea Santarelli
Davide Di Veroli
Gabriele Cimini
Federico Vismara
6Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan Ruslan Kurbanov
Yerlik Sertay
Elmir Alimzhanov
Vadim Sharlaimov
7Flag of Venezuela (state).svg  Venezuela Jesús Limardo
Gabriel Lugo
Rubén Limardo
Francisco Limardo
8Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt Mahmoud El-Sayed
Mohamed El-Sayed
Mohamed Yasseen
Mahmoud Mohsen

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