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- Japan is the reigning world champion (2023), Olympic champion (2024) and Asian champion (2025) in the men’s team foil event. It took bronze at the most recent Asian Games (2023). Kyosuke Matsuyama (JPN) was a part of all these teams. Japan’s world title in the men’s team foil in 2023 is the only world title for Japan in a team event (men’s and women’s).
- Italy took silver in this event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Italians won the European title in Genoa in June 2025. In this century, Italy twice won the world and European title in the men’s team foil in the same year: in 2009 and in 2022. Italy won the most world titles (24) and most medals (41, G24-S9-B8) in this event, but the Azzurri lost to Hong Kong, China in the quarter-finals in 2023. The last time Italy finished outside the podium in this event at successive world championships was from 1998 to 2002 (4 in a row).
- France took bronze in the men’s team foil event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. At the world championships, les Bleus (G13-S16-B8) won 37 medals in this event. The French won their last world title in this event in 2014. France also won this event at the European championships in Tbilisi in 2017.
- United States (G1-S4-B0) won five medals in this event at the world championships (2013-2022). Gerek Meinhardt (USA) and Alexander Massialas (USA) were part of every USA team that won these medals. USA reached the final of this event at four successive world championships from 2017 to 2022. The team won in 2019 (against France) and finished runner up in 2017, 2018 and 2022 (versus Italy in all three finals). USA defeated Canada in the final at the last Pan American Games (2023) and at the last Pan American championships (2025).
- China could win its third world title in the men’s team foil event, after gold in 2010 and 2011. China took silver in 2023.
- Hong Kong, China took bronze in this event at the world championships in 2023 and at the Asian Games in the same year. Until the start of the 2025 world championships, Hong Kong, China had never won gold or silver in a fencing event at the world championships. Foil fencer Ka Long Cheung (HKG) won the last two Olympic gold medals in the men’s foil individual event (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024).
- Republic of Korea won the men’s team foil event at the 2023 Asian Games. The NF claimed its only world championships medals in this event in 1998 (bronze) and 2007 (bronze).
- Egypt claimed three bronze medals in this event at the world championships: 1949, 1950 and 1951. Until 2025, Egypt had never won a gold or silver medal in a fencing event at the world championships.
- Poland (G2-S7-B9) won 18 world championships medal in the men’s team foil event, but it has not finished on the podium since a bronze medal in Beijing in April 2008.
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- The men’s tram foil event at the 2023 world championships in Milan was the first-ever event in world championships history with an all-Asian podium: Japan (gold), China (silver), Hong Kong, China (bronze).
- In 2018, Alessio Foconi (ITA) became the only fencer at the past 10 world championships (2010-2023) to win the men’s foil individual and team events at the same world championships.