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Épée, Team, Men

Date6 – 9 July 1924
StatusOlympic
LocationVélodrome d'Hiver, Paris
Participants89 from 16 countries

Between 1920-1960, the team épée was a virtual two-nation race between France and Italy, with Italy winning the gold medal six times and France three. But 1924 was a French year. The two dominant countries made the final pool, along with Belgium and Portugal. The match between France and Italy was almost a tie, both winning eight bouts, but France won the match on touches delivered, 21-20. With easy victories over Belgium and Portugal, France was assured the gold medal. In an upset, Belgium also defeated Italy to garner the silver medal.

PosCompetitorsNOC
1FranceFRAGold
Lucien Gaudin • Géo Buchard • Roger Ducret • Georges Tainturier • André Labatut • Alexandre Lippmann • Robert Liottel • Gaston Cornereau (DNS)
2BelgiumBELSilver
Fernand de Montigny • Charles Delporte • Joseph De Craecker • Léon Tom • Paul Anspach • Ernest Gevers • Victor Boin (DNS) • Pierre Braine (DNS)
3ItalyITABronze
Marcello Bertinetti • Giovanni Canova • Vincenzo Cuccia • Giulio Basletta • Virgilio Mantegazza • Oreste Moricca • Renzo Compagna (DNS)
4PortugalPOR
Rui Mayer • Jorge Paiva • António de Menezes • Henrique da Silveira • Frederico Paredes • Paulo d'Eça Leal • Mário de Noronha • António Leite
3 p1 r3/4United StatesUSA
Arthur Lyon • Donald Waldhaus • William Russell • Leon Shore • Allen Milner • George Calnan • George Breed • Henry Breckinridge (DNS)
3 p2 r3/4SpainESP
Jesús López de Lara • Diego García • Diego Díez • Miguel Zabalza • Juan Delgado • Félix de Pomés • Fernando García (DNS) • César de los Reyes (DNS)
3 p1 r2/4CubaCUB
Ramón Fonst • Salvador Quesada • Osvaldo Miranda • Alfonso López • Ramiro Mañalich • Eduardo Alonso • Armando Parajon (DNS) • Fernando Calves (DNS)
3 p2 r2/4SwitzerlandSUI
Henri Jacquet • John Albaret • Constantin Antoniades • Eugène Empeyta • Frédéric Fitting • Édouard Fitting • Léopold Montagnier (DNS) • Maurice Pictet de Rochemont (DNS)
3 p3 r2/4NetherlandsNED
Jan de Beaufort • Wouter Brouwer • Arie de Jong • Pieter van Boven • Henri Wijnoldy-Daniëls • Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh • Louis Delaunoij (DNS) • G. A. Scheffer (DNS)
4 p1 r2/4Great BritainGBR
Barry Notley • David Craig • Martin Holt • Robert Frater • Charles Biscoe • Robert Montgomerie • George Burt (DNS) • Edgar Seligman (DNS)
3 p1 r1/4NorwayNOR
Raoul Heide • Johan Falkenberg • Frithjof Lorentzen • Sigurd Akre-Aas
3 p2 r1/4ArgentinaARG
Pedro Nazar • Cipriano Pons • Wenceslao Paunero • Luis Lucchetti • Francisco Bollini (DNS) • José Sosa (DNS) • Santiago Torres Blanco (DNS) • Roberto Larraz (DNS)
3 p3 r1/4SwedenSWE
Nils Hellsten • Gustaf Dyrssen • Carl Gripenstedt • Bertil Uggla • Gustaf Lindblom • Bror Lagercrantz (DNS) • Einar Råberg (DNS) • O. Valin (DNS)
3 p4 r1/4DenmarkDEN
Ivan Osiier • Jens Ole Berthelsen • Viggo Stilling-Andersen • Peter Ryefelt • Hans Olsen (DNS) • Erik Sjøqvist (DNS) • Svend Aage Munck (DNS)
3 p5 r1/4GreeceGRE
Tryfon Triantafyllakos • Evangelos Skotidas • Kostas Nikolopoulos • Kostas Kotzias • Konstantinos Botasis (DNS) • Ioannis Georgiadis (DNS) • J. Charamis (DNS)
4 p4 r1/4UruguayURU
Domingo Mendy • Héctor Belo • Conrado Rolando • Santos Ferreira • Vicente Lapido (DNS) • Pedro Mendy (DNS) • Enrique Pan (DNS) • Gilberto Tellechea (DNS)
DNSCzechoslovakiaTCH
Jan Černohorský • Josef Javůrek • Josef Jungmann • Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský • František Pavlát • Vincenc Rechner • Jan Tille

Round One

Date6 July 1924
FormatTop 2 teams in each pool advanced to quarter-finals.

Pool #1

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsBouts TiedTouches
1SpainESP1-0117-15Q
Diego García • Félix de Pomés • Diego Díez • Juan Delgado
2ItalyITA1-1016-16Q
Giovanni Canova • Marcello Bertinetti • Giulio Basletta • Virgilio Mantegazza • Vincenzo Cuccia • Oreste Moricca
3NorwayNOR0-1115-17
Raoul Heide • Johan Falkenberg • Frithjof Lorentzen • Sigurd Akre-Aas
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #106 JulPiste 1SpainESP9 – 7ItalyITA
Match #206 JulPiste 1SpainESP8 – 8NorwayNOR
Match #306 JulPiste 1ItalyITA9 – 7NorwayNOR

Pool #2

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1BelgiumBEL1-011-5Q
Léon Tom • Joseph De Craecker • Charles Delporte • Paul Anspach
2Great BritainGBR1-09-7Q
Martin Holt • David Craig • Robert Frater • Robert Montgomerie
3ArgentinaARG0-212-20
Pedro Nazar • Cipriano Pons • Wenceslao Paunero • Luis Lucchetti
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #106 JulPiste 2BelgiumBEL11 – 5ArgentinaARG
Match #206 JulPiste 5Great BritainGBR9 – 7ArgentinaARG

Pool #3

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1FranceFRA1-013-3Q
Géo Buchard • André Labatut • Robert Liottel • Alexandre Lippmann
2United StatesUSA1-09-7Q
Allen Milner • George Calnan • Arthur Lyon • William Russell
3SwedenSWE0-210-22
Nils Hellsten • Gustaf Dyrssen • Carl Gripenstedt • Bertil Uggla • Gustaf Lindblom
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #106 JulPiste 3FranceFRA13 – 3SwedenSWE
Match #206 JulPiste 2United StatesUSA9 – 7SwedenSWE

Pool #4

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1PortugalPOR2-126-22Q
Henrique da Silveira • Mário de Noronha • António de Menezes • Rui Mayer • Paulo d'Eça Leal • Frederico Paredes • António Leite
2NetherlandsNED2-126-22Q
Pieter van Boven • Arie de Jong • Jan de Beaufort • Henri Wijnoldy-Daniëls • Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh • Wouter Brouwer
3DenmarkDEN1-222-26
Ivan Osiier • Jens Ole Berthelsen • Viggo Stilling-Andersen • Peter Ryefelt
4UruguayURU1-222-26
Domingo Mendy • Héctor Belo • Conrado Rolando • Santos Ferreira
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #106 JulPiste 3NetherlandsNED10 – 6PortugalPOR
Match #206 JulPiste 4UruguayURU9 – 7DenmarkDEN
Match #306 JulPiste 2PortugalPOR10 – 6DenmarkDEN
Match #406 JulPiste 6NetherlandsNED9 – 7UruguayURU
Match #506 JulPiste 4PortugalPOR10 – 6UruguayURU
Match #606 JulPiste 5DenmarkDEN9 – 7NetherlandsNED

Pool #5

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1SwitzerlandSUI1-012-4Q
Eugène Empeyta • Constantin Antoniades • Frédéric Fitting • Henri Jacquet
2CubaCUB1-09-7Q
Ramón Fonst • Salvador Quesada • Eduardo Alonso • Ramiro Mañalich
3GreeceGRE0-211-21
Tryfon Triantafyllakos • Evangelos Skotidas • Kostas Nikolopoulos • Kostas Kotzias
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #106 JulPiste 6SwitzerlandSUI12 – 4GreeceGRE
Match #206 JulPiste 8CubaCUB9 – 7GreeceGRE

Quarter-Finals

Date7 July 1924
FormatTop 2 teams in each pool advanced to semi-finals.

Pool #1

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1PortugalPOR2-023-9Q
Henrique da Silveira • António de Menezes • Jorge Paiva • Paulo d'Eça Leal
2SpainESP2-020-12Q
Diego Díez • Juan Delgado • Diego García • Félix de Pomés
3CubaCUB0-212-20
Ramón Fonst • Salvador Quesada • Osvaldo Miranda • Alfonso López • Ramiro Mañalich • Eduardo Alonso
4Great BritainGBR0-29-23
Barry Notley • David Craig • Martin Holt • Robert Frater • Charles Biscoe
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #107 JulPiste 4PortugalPOR11 – 5CubaCUB
Match #207 JulPiste 1PortugalPOR12 – 4Great BritainGBR
Match #307 JulPiste 3SpainESP9 – 7CubaCUB
Match #407 JulPiste 2SpainESP11 – 5Great BritainGBR

Pool #2

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1BelgiumBEL1-013-3Q
Léon Tom • Joseph De Craecker • Fernand de Montigny • Ernest Gevers
2United StatesUSA1-08-8Q
George Calnan • Allen Milner • George Breed • Leon Shore
3SwitzerlandSUI0-211-21
Henri Jacquet • John Albaret • Constantin Antoniades • Eugène Empeyta • Frédéric Fitting
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #107 JulPiste 2BelgiumBEL13 – 3SwitzerlandSUI
Match #207 JulPiste 3United StatesUSA8 – 8SwitzerlandSUI

Pool #3

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1FranceFRA1-013-3Q
Géo Buchard • Robert Liottel • André Labatut • Georges Tainturier
2ItalyITA1-010-6Q
Giulio Basletta • Giovanni Canova • Vincenzo Cuccia • Oreste Moricca
3NetherlandsNED0-29-23
Jan de Beaufort • Wouter Brouwer • Arie de Jong • Pieter van Boven • Henri Wijnoldy-Daniëls
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #107 JulPiste 8FranceFRA13 – 3NetherlandsNED
Match #207 JulPiste 1ItalyITA10 – 6NetherlandsNED

Semi-Finals

Date8 July 1924
FormatTop 2 teams in each pool advanced to the final round.

Pool #1

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1FranceFRA1-010-6Q
Géo Buchard • Alexandre Lippmann • Georges Tainturier • Robert Liottel
2PortugalPOR1-010-6Q
Paulo d'Eça Leal • Henrique da Silveira • António de Menezes • Mário de Noronha
3United StatesUSA0-212-20
Arthur Lyon • Donald Waldhaus • William Russell • Leon Shore • Allen Milner • George Calnan
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #108 JulPiste 2FranceFRA10 – 6United StatesUSA
Match #208 JulPiste 1PortugalPOR10 – 6United StatesUSA

Pool #2

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1ItalyITA1-010-6Q
Giovanni Canova • Giulio Basletta • Marcello Bertinetti • Vincenzo Cuccia
2BelgiumBEL1-09-7Q
Léon Tom • Joseph De Craecker • Paul Anspach • Charles Delporte
3SpainESP0-213-19
Jesús López de Lara • Diego García • Diego Díez • Miguel Zabalza • Juan Delgado • Félix de Pomés
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #108 JulPiste 2ItalyITA10 – 6SpainESP
Match #208 JulPiste 1BelgiumBEL9 – 7SpainESP

Final Pool

Date9 July 1924
PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1FranceFRA3-029-17
Lucien Gaudin • Géo Buchard • Roger Ducret • Georges Tainturier • André Labatut • Alexandre Lippmann
2BelgiumBEL2-125-22
Fernand de Montigny • Charles Delporte • Joseph De Craecker • Léon Tom • Paul Anspach
3ItalyITA1-221-26
Marcello Bertinetti • Giovanni Canova • Vincenzo Cuccia • Giulio Basletta
4PortugalPOR0-318-28
Rui Mayer • Jorge Paiva • António de Menezes • Henrique da Silveira • Frederico Paredes • Paulo d'Eça Leal
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #109 JulPiste 1FranceFRA10 – 5BelgiumBEL
Match #209 JulPiste 6FranceFRA8 – 8ItalyITA
Match #309 JulPiste 8FranceFRA11 – 4PortugalPOR
Match #409 JulPiste 4BelgiumBEL11 – 5ItalyITA
Match #509 JulPiste 2BelgiumBEL9 – 7PortugalPOR
Match #609 JulPiste 3ItalyITA8 – 7PortugalPOR