Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's épée
The men's épée was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twenty-first appearance of the event. The competition was held on 1 August 1992. 70 fencers from 30 nations competed.
Competition format
The 1992 tournament used a three-phase format roughly similar to prior years in consisting of a group phase, a double-elimination phase, and a single-elimination phase, but each phase was very different from previous formats.The first phase was a single round round-robin pool play format; each fencer in a pool faced each other fencer in that pool once. There were 10 pools with 7 fencers each. The fencers' ranks within the pool were ignored; the overall winning percentage were used to rank the fencers. The top 52 advanced to the second phase, while the other fencers were eliminated.
The second phase was a modified, truncated double-elimination tournament. 12 fencers received a bye to the second round, while the 40 fencers ranked 13–52 played in the round of 64. Fencers losing in the round of 64 were eliminated, while the remaining rounds were double elimination via repechages. The repechages used a complicated reseeding mechanism. Ultimately, the 4 fencers remaining undefeated after the round of 8 advanced to the quarterfinals along with 4 fencers who advanced through the repechages after one loss.
The final phase was a single elimination tournament with quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final and bronze medal match.
All bouts were to 5 touches. In the second and third phases, matches were best-of-three bouts.
Results
Group round
Fencers were ranked by win percent, then touch differential, then touches against. This ranking, with adjustments to ensure that no two fencers of the same nation were in the same bracket, was used to seed the elimination round brackets.| Rank | Fencer | Nation | Pool | Rank | Wins | Losses | Win % | TF - TA | Qual. | ||
| 1 | Elmar Borrmann | 6 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1.000 | 30 | 14 | 16 | ||
| 2 | Angelo Mazzoni | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1.000 | 30 | 15 | 15 | ||
| 3 | Mauricio Rivas | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1.000 | 30 | 18 | 12 | ||
| 4 | Krisztián Kulcsár | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1.000 | 30 | 19 | 11 | ||
| 5 | Éric Srecki | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | .833 | 30 | 13 | 17 | ||
| 6 | Iván Kovács | 9 | 1 | 5 | 1 | .833 | 28 | 13 | 15 | ||
| 7 | Jean-Michel Henry | 8 | 1 | 5 | 1 | .833 | 28 | 15 | 13 | ||
| 8 | Adrian Pop | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | .833 | 29 | 17 | 12 | ||
| 9 | Robert Felisiak | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | .833 | 29 | 18 | 11 | ||
| 10 | Péter Vánky | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | .833 | 29 | 18 | 11 | ||
| 11 | Sandro Cuomo | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | .833 | 30 | 21 | 9 | ||
| 12 | Laurie Shong | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 27 | 15 | 12 | ||
| 13 | Kaido Kaaberma | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 25 | 17 | 8 | ||
| 14 | Olivier Lenglet | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 25 | 17 | 8 | ||
| 15 | Kim Jeong-Gwan | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 26 | 18 | 8 | ||
| 16 | Andrey Shuvalov | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 26 | 18 | 8 | ||
| 17 | Maurizio Randazzo | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 26 | 19 | 7 | ||
| 18 | Pavel Kolobkov | 10 | 1 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 27 | 20 | 7 | ||
| 19 | Michael O'Brien | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 28 | 21 | 7 | ||
| 20 | Lee Sang-Gi | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 25 | 19 | 6 | ||
| 21 | Aleš Depta | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 26 | 21 | 5 | ||
| 22 | Roman Ječmínek | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 28 | 23 | 5 | ||
| 23 | Danek Nowosielski | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 24 | 20 | 4 | ||
| 24 | Thomas Lundblad | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 25 | 21 | 4 | ||
| 25 | Serhiy Kravchuk | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 27 | 23 | 4 | ||
| 26 | Robert Davidson | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 25 | 23 | 2 | ||
| 27 | Roberto Lazzarini | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 21 | 23 | -2 | ||
| 28 | Jiří Douba | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 26 | 20 | 6 | ||
| 29 | Jean-Marc Chouinard | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 26 | 20 | 6 | ||
| 30 | Arnd Schmitt | 10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 25 | 20 | 5 | ||
| 31 | Fernando de la Peña | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 26 | 21 | 5 | ||
| 32 | Jang Tae-Seok | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 24 | 21 | 3 | ||
| 33 | Gabriel Pantelimon | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 26 | 23 | 3 | ||
| 34 | Maciej Ciszewski | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 24 | 22 | 2 | ||
| 35 | Raúl Maroto | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 23 | 22 | 1 | ||
| 36 | Viktor Zuikov | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 24 | 23 | 1 | ||
| 37 | André Kuhn | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 26 | 25 | 1 | ||
| 38 | Rafael di Tella | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 22 | 22 | 0 | ||
| 39 | Ferenc Hegedűs | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 22 | 22 | 0 | ||
| 40 | Jon Normile | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 20 | 22 | -2 | ||
| 41 | Juan Miguel Paz | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 21 | 23 | -2 | ||
| 42 | Gavin McLean | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 21 | 23 | -2 | ||
| 43 | Robert Marx | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 19 | 23 | -4 | ||
| 44 | Ulf Sandegren | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 21 | 25 | -4 | ||
| 45 | Mohamed Al-Hamar | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 17 | 25 | -8 | ||
| 46 | Olivier Jacquet | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 25 | 23 | 2 | ||
| 47 | Manuel Pereira | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 25 | 27 | -2 | ||
| 48 | Cornel Milan | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 24 | 27 | -3 | ||
| 49 | Sławomir Nawrocki | 8 | 6 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 21 | 26 | -5 | ||
| 50 | Wong James | 10 | 6 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 18 | 25 | -7 | ||
| 51 | Norikazu Tanabe | 7 | 6 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 21 | 28 | -7 | ||
| 52 | Handry Lenzun | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 17 | 25 | -8 | ||
| 53 | Steven Paul | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 18 | 27 | -9 | ||
| 54 | Scott Arnold | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 15 | 26 | -11 | ||
| 55 | Chris O'Loughlin | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 19 | 26 | -7 | ||
| 56 | Witold Gadomski | 9 | 6 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 18 | 26 | -8 | ||
| 57 | Daniel Lang | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 19 | 27 | -8 | ||
| 58 | Zahi El-Khoury | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 20 | 28 | -8 | ||
| 59 | Lucas Zakaria | 2 | 7 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 18 | 27 | -9 | ||
| 60 | Rui Frazão | 10 | 7 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 16 | 26 | -10 | ||
| 61 | Luciano Finardi | 3 | 7 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 17 | 28 | -11 | ||
| 61 | José Bandeira | 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 17 | 28 | -11 | ||
| 63 | Francisco Papaiano | 1 | 7 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 13 | 27 | -14 | ||
| 64 | Michel Youssef | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 11 | 26 | -15 | ||
| 65 | Tan Ronald | 9 | 7 | 1 | 5 | .167 | 11 | 29 | -18 | ||
| 66 | José Marcelo Álvarez | 4 | 7 | 0 | 6 | .000 | 18 | 30 | -12 | ||
| 67 | Dario Torrente | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 | .000 | 17 | 30 | -13 | ||
| 68 | Enzo da Ponte | 5 | 7 | 0 | 6 | .000 | 14 | 30 | -16 | ||
| 68 | Trevor Strydom | 6 | 7 | 0 | 6 | .000 | 14 | 30 | -16 | ||
| 70 | Hein van Garderen | 8 | 7 | 0 | 6 | .000 | 11 | 30 | -19 |
Elimination rounds
Main brackets
Main bracket 1
Ciszewski, Wong, Tanabe, Paz, and Normile were eliminated after the round of 64. The losers in the round of 32 faced off, with Randazzo beating Jang and Davidson beating Pop to advance to the repechage. The losers of the round of 16, Shuvalov and Lazzarini, advanced directly to the first round of the repechage. Vánky, having lost in the round of 8, went to the third round of the repechage. Borrmann won the bracket, advancing to the quarterfinals.Repechage qualifiers 1
Main bracket 2
Sandegren, di Tella, Lenzun, Al-Hamar, and Kuhn were eliminated after the round of 64. The losers in the round of 32 faced off, with Depta beating Schmitt and Kulcsár beating Lee to advance to the repechage. The losers of the round of 16, Shong and de la Peña, advanced directly to the first round of the repechage. Srecki, having lost in the round of 8, went to the third round of the repechage. Kaaberma won the bracket, advancing to the quarterfinals.Repechage qualifiers 2
Main bracket 3
Maroto, O'Brien, Milan, Ječmínek, and Zuikov were eliminated after the round of 64. The losers in the round of 32 faced off, with Chouinard beating Jacquet and Kravchuk beating Cuomo to advance to the repechage. The losers of the round of 16, Lenglet and Marx, advanced directly to the first round of the repechage. Rivas, having lost in the round of 8, went to the third round of the repechage. Kovács won the bracket, advancing to the quarterfinals.Repechage qualifiers 3
Main bracket 4
Hegedűs, McLean, Kim, Pereira, and Pantelimon were eliminated after the round of 64. The losers in the round of 32 faced off, with Nowosielski beating Lundblad and Mazzoni beating Nawrocki to advance to the repechage. The losers of the round of 16, Henry and Douba, advanced directly to the first round of the repechage. Felisiak, having lost in the round of 8, went to the third round of the repechage. Kolobkov won the bracket, advancing to the quarterfinals.Repechage qualifiers 4
Repechage rounds 1 and 2
The fencers were reseeded: the eight fencers who had lost in the round of 16 were reseeded as 1–8 while the eight fencers who had lost in the round of 32 but won the repechage qualifiers were reseeded as 9–16. Rematches of main bracket matches were avoided. For example, original seed #2 Mazzoni would have been reseeded as #9 because he was the top-seeded fencer who had advanced through the repechage qualifiers. That would have placed original #4 Kulcsár as #10, setting up a rematch against #7 de la Peña; Kulcsár and Mazzoni were swapped to #9 and #10, respectively. Original seeds are shown in parentheses in the brackets.Repechage rounds 1 and 2 bracket 1
Repechage rounds 1 and 2 bracket 2
Repechage rounds 1 and 2 bracket 3
Repechage rounds 1 and 2 bracket 4
Repechage round 3
The fencers were reseeded again. Seeds 1–4 were given to round 8 losers, based on their original seeds. Seeds 5–8 were given to the winners of the second round of the repechage, based on their original seeds—except that Henry was moved from #6 to #5 to avoid a rematch with Felisiak.Repechage round 3 bracket 1
Repechage round 3 bracket 2
Repechage round 3 bracket 3
Repechage round 3 bracket 4
Final rounds
The fencers were reseeded a final time. Seeds 1–4 were given to the round of 8 winners, based on their original seeds. Seeds 5–8 were given to the winners of the third round of the repechage, based on their original seeds.Final classification
| Fencer | Country |
| Éric Srecki | |
| Pavel Kolobkov | |
| Jean-Michel Henry | |
| Kaido Kaaberma | |
| Elmar Borrmann | |
| Angelo Mazzoni | |
| Mauricio Rivas | |
| Iván Kovács | |
| Robert Felisiak | |
| Péter Vánky | |
| Andrey Shuvalov | |
| Serhiy Kravchuk | |
| Krisztián Kulcsár | |
| Laurie Shong | |
| Maurizio Randazzo | |
| Aleš Depta | |
| Olivier Lenglet | |
| Danek Nowosielski | |
| Robert Davidson | |
| Roberto Lazzarini | |
| Jiří Douba | |
| Jean-Marc Chouinard | |
| Fernando de la Peña | |
| Robert Marx | |
| Adrian Pop | |
| Sandro Cuomo | |
| Lee Sang-Gi | |
| Thomas Lundblad | |
| Arnd Schmitt | |
| Jang Tae-Seok | |
| Olivier Jacquet | |
| Sławomir Nawrocki | |
| Kim Jeong-Gwan | |
| Michael O'Brien | |
| Roman Ječmínek | |
| Gabriel Pantelimon | |
| Maciej Ciszewski | |
| Raúl Maroto | |
| Viktor Zuikov | |
| André Kuhn | |
| Rafael di Tella | |
| Ferenc Hegedűs | |
| Jon Normile | |
| Juan Miguel Paz | |
| Gavin McLean | |
| Ulf Sandegren | |
| Mohamed Al-Hamar | |
| Manuel Pereira | |
| Cornel Milan | |
| Wong James | |
| Norikazu Tanabe | |
| Handry Lenzun | |
| Steven Paul | |
| Scott Arnold | |
| Chris O'Loughlin | |
| Witold Gadomski | |
| Daniel Lang | |
| Zahi El-Khoury | |
| Lucas Zakaria | |
| Rui Frazão | |
| Luciano Finardi | |
| José Bandeira | |
| Francisco Papaiano | |
| Michel Youssef | |
| Tan Ronald | |
| José Marcelo Álvarez | |
| Dario Torrente | |
| Enzo da Ponte | |
| Trevor Strydom | |
| Hein van Garderen |