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- Hungary won the Olympic gold medal in the men’s epee team event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It was Hungary’s first Olympic gold medal in this event since the Munich 1972 Games. The last time Hungary won the world title in the men’s team epee event was in Budapest in 2013. This is also Hungary’s last medal in this event.
- Japan won Olympic gold in the men’s team epee at the Tokyo 2020 Games (held in 2021) and it took Olympic silver at Paris 2024. Japan’s only podium finish in this event at the world championships was a third place in 2022. Japan won this event at the Asian championships in June 2025. It also reached the final at four of the five World Cups this season (including victories in Heidenheim and Saint-Maur).
- France has won the men’s team epee event a record 23 times at the world championships. This includes winning 10 of the last 15 world titles. France’s most recent victory was in 2022. France won 46 world championships medals in this event (G23-S16-B7). It last failed to win a medal in 2018 (fourth place). France won this event at the European championships in Genoa in June. French is also the last team to win the European and world title in this event in the same year: in 2011.
- Italy won the world title in the men’s team epee event in Milan in 2023. The last time Italy won this event at successive world championships was in 1989 and 1990. Only France (23) has won more world titles in this event than Italy (14).
- Czechia took Olympic bronze in this event at the Paris 2024 Games. Czechia has never finished on the podium of a fencing event at the world championships (* this does not include Czechoslovakia). The Czechs claimed bronze in this event at the European championships in Tbilisi in 2017.
- Kazakhstan could win its first medal in the men’s team epee event at the world championships. Its only world championships medal in fencing is a bronze medal for Ruslan Kurbanov (KAZ) in the men’s individual epee in 2023.
- Venezuela claimed bronze in this event at the world championships in 2023. Venezuela’s team consisted of Gabriel Lugo and the three Limardo brothers - Ruben, Francisco and Jesús.
- Netherlands took silver in this event at the European championships in June. It has never won a medal in this event at the world championships. The most recent fencing medal for Netherlands at the world championships was a silver medal for Bas Verwijlen (NED) in the men’s individual epee in 2011.
- Switzerland won the men’s team epee world title in 2018. Its last medal in this event was a bronze medal in 2019.
- Egypt won the men’s team epee event at the African championships in Lagos in June this year. It claimed one world championships medal in this event, a bronze medal in Cairo in 1949.
- United States won two medals in the men’s team epee at the world championships: gold in 2012 and silver in 2010.
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- The last two finals in the men’s team epee at the world championships were between Italy (won in 2023) and France (won in 2022).
- Italy and France are the only NFs to have met in the final of this event at three successive world championships: 1931-1933-1934 and in 1950-1951-1953. The Italians won four of these six finals. France won in 1934 and 1951.
- Twice in this century, the winner of the men’s individual epee event also won the gold medal in the team event that year: Ulrich Robeiri (FRA) in 2014, and Romain Cannone (FRA) in 2022.
- At the World Cup in Tbilisi in March 2024, France defeated Czechia in the final of the men’s team epee event.