| | Event type
Épée, Team, Men
| Date | 22 August 2004 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Aithousa Ksifaskias, Olympiako Syngrotima Ellenikou, Hellinikon | |
| Participants | 30 from 8 countries | |
| Format | Single-elimination tournament. | |
With the defending Olympic champions from Italy having failed to qualify for the Games, France were installed as gold medal favourites although they had been more successful as individuals rather than as a team in preceding years. Led by World Champion Fabrice Jeannet and his brother Jérôme Jeannet, France overcame Germany in a tense semi-final but were far superior to their Hungarian opponents in the final and ran out victors on a comfortable 45-32 score line.
| Pos | Seed | Competitors | NOC | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | France |  FRA | Gold | |||||
| Éric Boisse • Fabrice Jeannet • Jérôme Jeannet • Hugues Obry | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Hungary |  HUN | Silver | |||||
| Gábor Boczkó • Géza Imre • Iván Kovács • Krisztián Kulcsár | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Germany |  GER | Bronze | |||||
| Jörg Fiedler • Sven Schmid • Daniel Strigel | |||||||||
| 4 | 1 | Russian Federation |  RUS | ||||||
| Sergey Kochetkov • Pavel Kolobkov • Igor Turchin | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Ukraine |  UKR | ||||||
| Dmytro Kariuchenko • Maksym Khvorost • Bohdan Nikishyn • Vitaliy Osharov | |||||||||
| 6 | 7 | United States |  USA | ||||||
| Seth Kelsey • Cody Mattern • Soren Thompson • Jan Viviani | |||||||||
| 7 | 6 | People's Republic of China |  CHN | ||||||
| Tuo Tong • Wang Lei • Xie Yongjun • Zhao Gang | |||||||||
| 8 | 8 | Egypt |  EGY | ||||||
| Ibrahim Abdel Rehim • Yasser Mahmoud • Ahmed Nabil • Muhannad Saif El-Din | |||||||||
Round One
| Date | 22 August 2004 — 10:00 |
|---|---|
| Format | Winner of each match advanced to semi-finals. |
| Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | Result | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match #1 | 22 Aug 10:00 | Piste Yellow | France (2) | FRA | 45 – 32 | United States (7) | USA | |
| Match #2 | 22 Aug 10:00 | Piste Green | Hungary (4) | HUN | 38 – 34 | Ukraine (5) | UKR | |
| Match #3 | 22 Aug 10:00 | Piste Blue | Germany (3) | GER | 39 – 32 | People's Republic of China (6) | CHN | |
| Match #4 | 22 Aug 10:00 | Piste Red | Russian Federation (1) | RUS | 41 – 30 | Egypt (8) | EGY |
Semi-Finals
| Date | 22 August 2004 — 11:25 |
|---|---|
| Format | Winner of each match advanced to final. |
| Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | Result | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match #1 | 22 Aug 11:25 | Piste Green | France (2) | FRA | 45 – 44 | Germany (3) | GER | |
| Match #2 | 22 Aug 11:25 | Piste Red | Hungary (4) | HUN | 34 – 26 | Russian Federation (1) | RUS |
Classification Round 5-8
| Date | 22 August 2004 — 11:25 |
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| Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | Result | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match #1 | 22 Aug 11:25 | Piste Yellow | United States (7) | USA | 45 – 36 | People's Republic of China (6) | CHN | |
| Match #2 | 22 Aug 11:25 | Piste Blue | Ukraine (5) | UKR | 45 – 36 | Egypt (8) | EGY |
Final Round
| Date | 22 August 2004 — 18:30 |
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| Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | Result | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match 1/2 | 22 Aug 19:50 | Piste Final | France (2) | FRA | 43 – 32 | Hungary (4) | HUN | |
| Match 3/4 | 22 Aug 18:30 | Piste Final | Germany (3) | GER | 37 – 29 | Russian Federation (1) | RUS | |
| Match 5/6 | 22 Aug 12:50 | Piste Green | Ukraine (5) | UKR | 45 – 33 | United States (7) | USA | |
| Match 7/8 | 22 Aug 12:50 | Piste Red | People's Republic of China (6) | CHN | 45 – 26 | Egypt (8) | EGY |