Fencing at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's team épée

Men's team épée at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Venue	Schermzaal
Dates	3–5 August 1928
Competitors	93 from 18 nations
Medalists
Giulio Basletta Marcello Bertinetti Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici Carlo Agostoni Renzo Minoli Franco Riccardi  Italy Georges Buchard Gaston Amson Émile Cornic Bernard Schmetz René Barbier  France Paulo Leal Mário de Noronha Jorge de Paiva Frederico Paredes João Sassetti Henrique da Silveira  Portugal
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The men's team épée was one of seven fencing events on the Fencing at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 3 August 1928 to 5 August 1928. 93 fencers from 18 nations competed.^[1]

Rosters

Results

Source: Official results;^[2] De Wael^[3]

Round 1

Each pool was a round-robin (with matches not being held where unnecessary to the overall result). Bouts were to two touches, and each fencer from one nation had a bout against each from the opponent. The nation which won the most individual bouts took the team match (with total touches as the tie-breaker if the teams split 8-8). The top two nations in each pool advanced to the second round.

Pool A
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	France	2	0	Q
2	Czechoslovakia	1	1	Q
3	Greece	0	2

Pool B
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Belgium	1	0	Q
2	Spain	1	0	Q
3	Denmark	0	2

Pool C
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Italy	0	0	Q

Pool D
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Portugal	2	0	Q
2	Netherlands	1	1	Q
3	Sweden	0	2

Pool E
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Switzerland	1 (20)	1	Q
2	Norway	1 (16)	1	Q
3	Great Britain	1 (10)	1

Pool F
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	United States	2	0	Q
2	Egypt	1	1	Q
3	Hungary	0	2

Pool G
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Germany	1	0	Q
2	Romania	0	1	Q

Round 2

Each pool was a round-robin (with matches not being held where unnecessary to the overall result). Bouts were to two touches, and each fencer from one nation had a bout against each from the opponent. The nation which won the most individual bouts took the team match (with total touches as the tie-breaker if the teams split 8-8). The top two nations in each pool advanced to the second round.

Pool A
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Belgium	2	0	Q
2	Czechoslovakia	1	1	Q
3	Romania	0	2

Pool B
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Italy	3	0	Q
2	Spain	11⁄2	11⁄2	Q
3	Egypt	1	2
4	Germany	1⁄2	21⁄2

Pool C
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	France	2	0	Q
2	Netherlands	1	1	Q
3	Switzerland	0	2

Pool D
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Portugal	2	0	Q
2	United States	1	1	Q
3	Norway	0	2

Semifinals

Each pool was a round-robin (with matches not being held where unnecessary to the overall result). Bouts were to two touches, and each fencer from one nation had a bout against each from the opponent. The nation which won the most individual bouts took the team match (with total touches as the tie-breaker if the teams split 8-8). The top two nations in each pool advanced to the second round.

Pool A
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	France	3	0	Q
2	Belgium	2	1	Q
3	United States	1	2
4	Spain	0	3

Pool B
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Italy	3	0	Q
2	Portugal	2	1	Q
3	Czechoslovakia	1	2
4	Netherlands	0	3

Final

The final was a round-robin. Bouts were to two touches, and each fencer from one nation had a bout against each from the opponent. The nation which won the most individual bouts took the team match (with total touches as the tie-breaker if the teams split 8-8).

Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses
	Italy	3	0
	France	2	1
	Portugal	1	2
4	Belgium	0	3

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