Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's team épée

Men's team épée at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Westend Tennis Hall, Espoo
Dates	July 25–26
Competitors	98 from 19 nations
Medalists
Edoardo Mangiarotti, Dario Mangiarotti, Giuseppe Delfino, Carlo Pavesi, Franco Bertinetti, Roberto Battaglia   Italy   Per Carleson, Carl Forssell, Bengt Ljungquist, Berndt-Otto Rehbinder, Sven Fahlman, Lennart Magnusson   Sweden   Otto Rüfenacht, Paul Meister, Oswald Zappelli, Paul Barth, Willy Fitting, Mario Valota   Switzerland

Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Épée	men
Team épée	men
Foil	men		women
Team foil	men
Sabre	men
Team sabre	men

The men's team épée was one of seven fencing events on the fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme. It was the ninth appearance of the event. The competition was held from July 25, 1952, to July 26, 1952. 98 fencers from 19 nations competed.^[1]

Results

Source: Official results;^[2] and Sports Reference^[3]

Round 1

The top two nations in each pool advanced to the quarter finals.

Pool 1
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Sweden	1	0	9	0
2	Great Britain	1	0	10	6
3	Poland	0	2	6	19

Pool 2
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Italy	1	0	8	4
2	United States	1	0	8	8
3	Soviet Union	0	2	12	16

Pool 3
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Hungary	1	0	14	1
2	Switzerland	1	0	8	2
3	Brazil	0	2	3	22

Pool 4
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Belgium	2	0	20	10
2	Denmark	2	0	17	9
3	Portugal	0	2	10	17
4	Venezuela	0	2	9	20

Pool 5
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Finland	1	0	11	4
2	Luxembourg	1	0	8	3
3	Australia	0	2	7	19

Pool 6
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	France	1	0	8	3
2	Norway	1	0	8	6
3	Egypt	0	2	11	16

Quarter Finals

The top two nations in each pool advanced to the semi-finals.

Pool 1
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Hungary	3	0	31	12
2	Luxembourg	2	1	23	22
3	France	1	2	19	15
4	Finland	0	3	16	30

Pool 2
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Italy	2	0	20	4
2	Switzerland	2	0	15	10
3	Belgium	0	2	8	15
4	Norway	0	2	6	20

Pool 3
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Sweden	2	1	30	15
2	Denmark	2	1	19	28
3	Great Britain	1	2	23	24
4	United States	1	2	20	25

Semifinals

The top two nations in each pool advanced to the final.

Pool 1
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Luxembourg	1	0	10	5
2	Italy	1	0	8	7
3	Denmark	0	2	12	18

Pool B
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Switzerland	1	1	18	12
2	Sweden	1	1	14	15
3	Hungary	1	1	13	18

Final

The final was a round-robin.

Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
01 !	Italy	3	0	32	11
02 !	Sweden	2	1	26	17
03 !	Switzerland	1	2	18	24
4	Luxembourg	0	3	9	33

Results

• Italy 8-5 Sweden
• Italy 12-4 Switzerland
• Italy 12-2 Luxembourg
• Sweden 8-6 Switzerland
• Sweden 13-3 Luxembourg
• Switzerland 8-4 Luxembourg

Rosters

References