title: Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team épée
text: # Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team épée
  
  The men's team épée fencing competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 15 at the Olympic Green Convention Centre.
  
  The team épée competition consisted of a four-round single-elimination bracket with a bronze medal match between the two semifinal losers and classification semifinals and finals for 5th to 8th places. Teams consist of three members each. Matches consist of nine bouts, with every fencer on one team facing each fencer on the other team. Scoring carried over between bouts with a total of 45 touches being the team goal. Bouts lasted until one team reached the target multiple of 5 touches. For example, if the first bout ended with a score of 5-3, that score would remain into the next bout and the second bout would last until one team reached 10 touches. Bouts also had a maximum time of three minutes each; if the final bout ended before either team reached 45 touches, the team leading at that point won. A tie at that point would result in an additional one-minute sudden-death time period. This sudden-death period was further modified by the selection of a draw-winner beforehand; if neither fencer scored a touch during the minute, the predetermined draw-winner won the bout.
  
  ## Draw
  
  ### Finals
  
  | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | | 1 | Hungary | 43 | | | | | | |
  | 9 | South Africa | 28 | 8 | China | 45 | | | | | | |
  | 8 | China | 45 | | | | 8 | China | 44 | | | |
  | | | | | | | 4 | Poland | 45 | | | |
  | | | | 5 | Ukraine | 37 | | | | | | |
  | | | | 4 | Poland | 45 | | | | | | |
  | | | | | | | | | | 4 | Poland | 29 |
  | | | | | | | | | | 2 | France | 45 |
  | | | | 3 | Italy | 45 | | | |
  | | | | 6 | South Korea | 37 | | | |
  | | | | | | | 3 | Italy | 39 | Third place | Third place | Third place |
  | | | | | | | 2 | France | 45 |
  | | | | 7 | Venezuela | 33 | | | | 8 | China | 35 |
  | | | | 2 | France | 45 | | | | 3 | Italy | 45 |
  
  ### Classification 5- 8
  
  | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-6 | Placement 5-6 | Placement 5-6 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Hungary | 41 | | | |
  | 5 | Ukraine | 29 | | | |
  | 5 | Ukraine | 29 | 1 | Hungary | 40 |
  | | | | 7 | Venezuela | 25 |
  | 6 | South Korea | 38 | 7 | Venezuela | 25 |
  | 7 | Venezuela | 45 | Placement 7-8 | Placement 7-8 | Placement 7-8 |
  | | | | 5 | Ukraine | 41 |
  | | | | 6 | South Korea | 39 |
  
  ## Final classification
  
  | Rank | Team | Athlete |
  | - | - | - |
  | | France | Fabrice Jeannet Jérôme Jeannet Ulrich Robeiri |
  | | Poland | Robert Andrzejuk Tomasz Motyka Adam Wiercioch Radosław Zawrotniak |
  | | Italy | Stefano Carozzo Diego Confalonieri Alfredo Rota Matteo Tagliariol |
  | 4 | China | Li Guojie Wang Lei Yin Lianchi Dong Guotao |
  | 5 | Hungary | Gábor Boczkó Géza Imre Krisztián Kulcsár Iván Kovács |
  | 6 | Venezuela | Silvio Fernández Francisco Limardo Rubén Limardo |
  | 7 | Ukraine | Maksym Khvorost Dmytro Chumak Bogdan Nikishin Vitalii Medvedev |
  | 8 | South Korea | Jung Jin-Sun Kim Won-Jin Kim Seung-Gu |
  | 9 | South Africa | Dario Torrente Sello Maduma Mike Wood |
  