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Épée, Team, Men

Date15 August 2008
StatusOlympic
LocationGuojia Huiyi Zhongxin, Beijing Aolinpike Gongyuan, Beijing
Participants32 from 9 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament.

The French team of Jérôme Jeannet, his brother Fabrice Jeannet, who won the silver medal in the Individual event, and Ulrich Robeiri had little trouble extending their winning run of World and Olympic championships that started at the Athina Olympics. They disposed of Venezuela and Italy before defeating Poland by 45-29 in the final. The Jeannet brothers were also members of the victorious team in 2004. Fabrice ended his career after Beijing while elder brother Jérôme fenced on until 2010.

PosCompetitorsNOC
1FranceFRAGold
Fabrice JeannetJérôme JeannetUlrich Robeiri
2PolandPOLSilver
Robert AndrzejukTomasz MotykaAdam WierciochRadosław Zawrotniak
3ItalyITABronze
Diego ConfalonieriAlfredo RotaMatteo TagliariolStefano CarozzoStefano Carozzo
4People's Republic of ChinaCHN
Dong GuotaoLi GuojieWang LeiYin Lianchi
5HungaryHUN
Gábor BoczkóGéza ImreIván KovácsKrisztián Kulcsár
6VenezuelaVEN
Silvio Fernández BriceñoFrancisco LimardoRubén Limardo
7UkraineUKR
Dmytro ChumakMaksym KhvorostVitaliy MedvedievBohdan Nikishyn
8Republic of KoreaKOR
Jeong Jin-SeonKim Seung-GuKim Won-Jin
9South AfricaRSA
Given MadumaDario TorrenteMike Wood

Round One

Date15 August 2008 — 9:00
FormatWinner of each match advanced to quarter-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #115 AugHungaryHUNbye
Match #215 Aug 9:00Piste YellowPeople's Republic of ChinaCHN45 – 28South AfricaRSA
Match #315 AugUkraineUKRbye
Match #415 AugPolandPOLbye
Match #515 AugItalyITAbye
Match #615 AugRepublic of KoreaKORbye
Match #715 AugVenezuelaVENbye
Match #815 AugFranceFRAbye

Quarter-Finals

Date15 August 2008 — 11:00
FormatWinner of each match advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #115 Aug 11:00Piste YellowPeople's Republic of ChinaCHN45 – 43HungaryHUN
Match #215 Aug 11:00Piste RedPolandPOL45 – 37UkraineUKR
Match #315 Aug 11:00Piste BlueItalyITA45 – 37Republic of KoreaKOR
Match #415 Aug 11:00Piste GreenFranceFRA45 – 33VenezuelaVEN

Semi-Finals

Date15 August 2008 — 14:00
FormatWinner of each match advanced to final pool.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #115 Aug 14:00Piste YellowPolandPOL45 – 44People's Republic of ChinaCHN
Match #215 Aug 14:00Piste BlueFranceFRA45 – 39ItalyITA

Classification Round 5-8

Date15 August 2008 — 12:30
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #115 Aug 12:30Piste BlueHungaryHUN41 – 29UkraineUKR
Match #215 Aug 12:30Piste YellowVenezuelaVEN45 – 38Republic of KoreaKOR

Final Round

Date15 August 2008
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/215 Aug 19:30Piste FinalFranceFRA45 – 29PolandPOL
Match 3/415 Aug 18:00Piste FinalItalyITA45 – 35People's Republic of ChinaCHN
Match 5/615 Aug 15:30Piste YellowHungaryHUN40 – 25VenezuelaVEN
Match 7/815 Aug 15:30Piste BlueUkraineUKR41 – 39Republic of KoreaKOR