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Épée, Team, Men

Date20 August 1920
StatusOlympic
LocationFloraliën, Middelheimpark, Antwerpen
Participants72 from 11 countries

Each nation was allowed one team entry of four starting competitors plus four substitutes. Bouts were for one touch with double touches counting as double losses. The format was two rounds of pools. In the final, the placements had already been determined by the time of the Italy-USA match. Since it would not make any difference which team won, they agreed to have Nedo Nadi fence one touch with Arthur Lyon and have the match victory determined by that one bout.

Italy won the épée team gold medal but it was fortunate to advance to the final. In round one, Italy did not win its pool, tieing for second with Portugal, barely ahead of the 4th placed Netherlands, which failed to advance. At the 1919 Inter-Allied Games the final standings were 1) France, 2) Portugal, and =3) Belgium and Romania. At Antwerp, the Italian team was awarded possession of the Challenge Prize that had been donated by The English Fencers.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1ItalyITAGold
Nedo NadiAldo NadiAbelardo OlivierDino UrbaniTommaso CostantinoPaolo, Conte Thaon Di RevelTullio BozzaGiovanni CanovaAndrea MarrazziAntonio Allocchio
2BelgiumBELSilver
Ernest GeversPaul AnspachFélix, Comte Goblet d'AlviellaVictor BoinJoseph De CraeckerLéon TomPhilippe, Vicomte Le Hardy de Beaulieu
3FranceFRABronze
Armand MassardAlexandre LippmannGustave BuchardGeorges TrombertGeorges CasanovaLouis MoreauGaston Amson
4PortugalPOR
António de MenezesJorge PaivaRui MayerJoão SassettiHenrique da SilveiraFrederico ParedesManuel Queiróz
5SwitzerlandSUI
Henri JacquetLéopold MontagnierFranz WilhelmFrédéric FittingEugène EmpeytaAlbert de TriboletJohn AlbaretÉdouard Fitting
6United StatesUSA
William RussellRay DutcherHenry BreckinridgeArthur LyonRobert SearsHarold Rayner
=7Great BritainGBR
Jack BlakeGeorge BurtMartin HoltRobert MontgomerieBarry NotleyEdgar Seligman
=7NetherlandsNED
Arie de JongWillem Hubert van BlijenburghGeorge van RossemSalomon ZeldenrustHenri Wijnoldy-DaniëlsJetze Doorman
=9CzechoslovakiaTCH
Jan ČernohorskýOtakar ŠvorčíkZdeněk VávraJosef JungmannJosef Javůrek
=9DenmarkDEN
O. H. BærentzenEjnar LevisonIvan OsiierPoul RasmussenAage BerntsenGeorg Hegner
11SwedenSWE
Nils HellstenGustaf LindblomBertil UgglaDavid Warholm

Round One (20 August 1920 — 09:00)

Top three teams in each pool advanced to final.

Pool 1

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBouts WonBouts LostTDTR
1FranceFRA40298Q
Armand MassardAlexandre LippmannGustave BuchardGeorges CasanovaGaston AmsonLouis Moreau
2SwitzerlandSUI312729Q
Henri JacquetLéopold MontagnierFranz WilhelmFrédéric FittingEugène EmpeytaAlbert de TriboletJohn AlbaretÉdouard Fitting
3United StatesUSA222726Q
William RussellRay DutcherHenry BreckinridgeArthur LyonRobert SearsHarold Rayner
4Great BritainGBR132130
Jack BlakeGeorge BurtMartin HoltRobert MontgomerieBarry NotleyEdgar Seligman
5CzechoslovakiaTCH041728
Jan ČernohorskýOtakar ŠvorčíkZdeněk VávraJosef JavůrekJosef Jungmann

Match #1 FRA 9 – 3GBR
Match #2 FRA 13 – 3SUI
Match #3 FRA 7 – 2USA
Match #4 FRA TCH
Match #5 SUI 7 – 4GBR
Match #6 SUI 10 – 6TCH
Match #7 SUI 7 – 6USA
Match #8 USA 8 – 7GBR
Match #9 USA 11 – 5TCH
Match #10 GBR 7 – 6TCH

Pool 2

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBouts WonBouts TiedBouts Lost
1BelgiumBEL401Q
Ernest GeversPaul AnspachFélix, Comte Goblet d'AlviellaVictor BoinJoseph De CraeckerLéon TomPhilippe, Vicomte Le Hardy de Beaulieu
=2PortugalPOR311Q
António de MenezesJorge PaivaRui MayerJoão SassettiHenrique da SilveiraFrederico ParedesManuel Queiróz
=2ItalyITA311Q
Nedo NadiAldo NadiAbelardo OlivierTullio BozzaGiovanni CanovaAndrea MarrazziAntonio AllocchioTommaso CostantinoPaolo, Conte Thaon Di Revel
4NetherlandsNED221
Arie de JongWillem Hubert van BlijenburghGeorge van RossemSalomon ZeldenrustHenri Wijnoldy-DaniëlsJetze Doorman
5DenmarkDEN104
O. H. BærentzenEjnar LevisonIvan OsiierPoul RasmussenAage BerntsenGeorg Hegner
6SwedenSWE005
Nils HellstenGustaf LindblomBertil UgglaDavid Warholm

Match #1 BEL POR
Match #2 BEL NED
Match #3 BEL DEN
Match #4 BEL SWE
Match #5 POR ITA
Match #6 POR DEN
Match #7 POR SWE
Match #8 POR NED
Match #9 ITA BEL
Match #10 ITA NED
Match #11 ITA DEN
Match #12 ITA SWE
Match #13 NED DEN
Match #14 NED SWE
Match #15 DEN SWE

Final Pool (20 August 1920)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBouts WonBouts TiedBouts LostTDTR
1ItalyITA5004122
Nedo NadiAldo NadiAbelardo OlivierDino UrbaniTommaso CostantinoPaolo, Conte Thaon Di Revel
2BelgiumBEL4013934
Ernest GeversPaul AnspachFélix, Comte Goblet d'AlviellaVictor BoinJoseph De CraeckerLéon Tom
3FranceFRA2123931
Armand MassardAlexandre LippmannGustave BuchardGeorges TrombertGeorges CasanovaLouis Moreau
4PortugalPOR2123035
António de MenezesJorge PaivaRui MayerJoão SassettiHenrique da SilveiraFrederico Paredes
5SwitzerlandSUI1043341
Henri JacquetLéopold MontagnierFranz WilhelmFrédéric FittingEugène EmpeytaAlbert de TriboletJohn AlbaretÉdouard Fitting
6United StatesUSA0051938
William RussellHenry BreckinridgeArthur LyonRobert SearsHarold Rayner

Match #1 ITA 8 – 7SUI
Match #2 ITA 12 – 3POR
Match #3 ITA 10 – 6FRA
Match #4 ITA 10 – 6BEL
Match #5 ITA 1 – 0USA
Match #6 BEL 8 – 6USA
Match #7 BEL 9 – 7SUI
Match #8 BEL 8 – 5POR
Match #9 BEL 8 – 6FRA
Match #10 FRA 12 – 2USA
Match #11 FRA 6 – 6POR
Match #12 FRA 9 – 5SUI
Match #13 POR 8 – 5SUI
Match #14 POR 8 – 4USA
Match #15 SUI 9 – 7USA