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

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Men's team foil
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Fencing pictogram.svg
Olympic fencing
Venue Grand Palais strip
Date4 August 2024
Competitors24 from 8 nations
Teams8
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Kyosuke Matsuyama
Takahiro Shikine
Kazuki Iimura
Yudai Nagano
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Silver medal icon.svg Guillaume Bianchi
Filippo Macchi
Tommaso Marini
Alessio Foconi
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Bronze medal icon.svg Maximilien Chastanet
Maxime Pauty
Enzo Lefort
Julien Mertine
Flag of France.svg  France
  2020
2028  

The men's team foil event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 4 August 2024 at the Grand Palais strip. [1] 24 fencers (eight teams of three) from eight nations competed. [2]

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a team of three fencers in the men's team foil. 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
Sunday, 4 August 202413:00
16:00
17:10
17:10
20:20
21:40
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Classification 7/8
Classification 5/6
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match

Results

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 45
 
 
 
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 26
 
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 45
 
 
 
Flag of France.svg  France 37
 
Flag of France.svg  France 45
 
 
 
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 35
 
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 45
 
 
 
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 36
 
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 45
 
 
 
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 35
 
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 38
 
 
 
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 45 Bronze medal bout
 
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 39
 
 
 
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 45
 
Flag of France.svg  France 45
 
 
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 32
 

5–8th place classification

 
5–8th place semifinalsFifth place bout
 
      
 
 
 
 
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 32
 
 
 
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 45
 
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 45
 
 
 
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 30
 
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 36
 
 
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 45
 
Seventh place bout
 
 
 
 
 
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 45
 
 
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 38

Final classification

RankTeamAthletes
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Japan.svg  Japan Takahiro Shikine
Kyosuke Matsuyama
Kazuki Iimura
Yudai Nagano
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Italy.svg  Italy Filippo Macchi
Tommaso Marini
Guillaume Bianchi
Alessio Foconi
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of France.svg  France Maximilien Chastanet
Maxime Pauty
Enzo Lefort
Julien Mertine
4Flag of the United States.svg  United States Nick Itkin
Miles Chamley-Watson
Alexander Massialas
Gerek Meinhardt
5Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Xu Jie
Mo Ziwei
Wu Bin
Chen Haiwei
6Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Andrzej Rządkowski
Jan Jurkiewicz
Michał Siess
Adrian Wojtkowiak
7Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Bogdan Hamilton
Maximilien Van Haaster
Blake Broszus
Daniel Gu
8Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt Mohamed Essam
Mohamed Hamza
Abdelrahman Tolba
Alaaeldin Abouelkassem

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