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.[1]

Men's épée
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
VenuePalace of Metallurgy
Dates1 August 1992
Competitors70 from 30 nations
Medalists
Éric Srecki  France
Pavel Kolobkov  Unified Team
Jean-Michel Henry  France

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 (vs. 3 rounds in 1988) 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 (with touch differential and then touches against used as tie-breakers) 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 (round of 32), 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 (but not the main brackets) 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 (noted in parentheses), was used to seed the elimination round brackets.

RankFencerNationPoolRankWinsLossesWin %TFTATF - TAQual.
1Elmar Borrmann Germany61601.000301416Q
2Angelo Mazzoni Italy11601.000301515Q
3Mauricio Rivas Colombia51601.000301812Q
4Krisztián Kulcsár Hungary41601.000301911Q
5Éric Srecki France2151.833301317Q
6Iván Kovács Hungary9151.833281315Q
7Jean-Michel Henry France8151.833281513Q
8Adrian Pop Romania5251.833291712Q
9 (10)Robert Felisiak Germany4251.833291811Q
10 (9)Péter Vánky Sweden3151.833291811Q
11Sandro Cuomo Italy7151.83330219Q
12Laurie Shong Canada1242.667271512Q
13Kaido Kaaberma Estonia9242.66725178Q
14Olivier Lenglet France6242.66725178Q
15Kim Jeong-Gwan South Korea8242.66726188Q
16Andrey Shuvalov Unified Team3242.66726188Q
17Maurizio Randazzo Italy5342.66726197Q
18Pavel Kolobkov Unified Team10142.66727207Q
19Michael O'Brien Ireland4342.66728217Q
20Lee Sang-Gi South Korea6342.66725196Q
21Aleš Depta Czechoslovakia1342.66726215Q
22Roman Ječmínek Czechoslovakia6442.66728235Q
23Danek Nowosielski Canada7242.66724204Q
24 (26)Thomas Lundblad Sweden10242.66725214Q
25 (27)Serhiy Kravchuk Unified Team2242.66727234Q
26 (24)Robert Davidson Australia9342.66725232Q
27 (25)Roberto Lazzarini Brazil2342.6672123-2Q
28 (31)Jiří Douba Czechoslovakia2433.50026206Q
29 (30)Jean-Marc Chouinard Canada8333.50026206Q
30 (28)Arnd Schmitt Germany10333.50025205Q
31 (29)Fernando de la Peña Spain7333.50026215Q
32Jang Tae-Seok South Korea9433.50024213Q
33 (34)Gabriel Pantelimon Romania7433.50026233Q
34 (33)Maciej Ciszewski Poland3333.50024222Q
35Raúl Maroto Spain3433.50023221Q
36 (38)Viktor Zuikov Estonia10433.50024231Q
37 (36)André Kuhn Switzerland8433.50026251Q
38 (37)Rafael di Tella Argentina10533.50022220Q
39Ferenc Hegedűs Hungary7533.50022220Q
40Jon Normile United States9533.5002022-2Q
41Juan Miguel Paz Colombia1433.5002123-2Q
42Gavin McLean New Zealand5433.5002123-2Q
43Robert Marx United States4433.5001923-4Q
44Ulf Sandegren Sweden8533.5002125-4Q
45Mohamed Al-Hamar Kuwait3533.5001725-8Q
46Olivier Jacquet Switzerland5524.33325232Q
47Manuel Pereira Spain4524.3332527-2Q
48 (51)Cornel Milan Romania3624.3332427-3Q
49 (50)Sławomir Nawrocki Poland8624.3332126-5Q
50 (48)Wong James Singapore10624.3331825-7Q
51 (49)Norikazu Tanabe Japan7624.3332128-7Q
52Handry Lenzun Indonesia1524.3331725-8Q
53Steven Paul Great Britain2524.3331827-9
54Scott Arnold Australia6524.3331526-11
55Chris O'Loughlin United States2615.1671926-7
56Witold Gadomski Poland9615.1671826-8
57Daniel Lang Switzerland1615.1671927-8
58Zahi El-Khoury Lebanon6615.1672028-8
59Lucas Zakaria Indonesia2715.1671827-9
60Rui Frazão Portugal10715.1671626-10
61Luciano Finardi Brazil3715.1671728-11
José Bandeira Portugal4615.1671728-11
63Francisco Papaiano Brazil1715.1671327-14
64Michel Youssef Lebanon5615.1671126-15
65Tan Ronald Singapore9715.1671129-18
66José Marcelo Álvarez Paraguay4706.0001830-12
67Dario Torrente South Africa7706.0001730-13
68Enzo da Ponte Paraguay5706.0001430-16
Trevor Strydom South Africa6706.0001430-16
70Hein van Garderen South Africa8706.0001130-19
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.

Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Round of 8
1  Elmar Borrmann (GER) 5 5
33  Maciej Ciszewski (POL) 4 5 32  Jang Tae-Seok (KOR) 2 3
32  Jang Tae-Seok (KOR) 6 6 1  Elmar Borrmann (GER) 6 6
17  Maurizio Randazzo (ITA) 5 5 16  Andrey Shuvalov (EUN) 5 5
48  Wong James (SIN) 2 3 17  Maurizio Randazzo (ITA) 5 1
49  Norikazu Tanabe (JPN) 0 4 16  Andrey Shuvalov (EUN) 6 5
16  Andrey Shuvalov (EUN) 5 6 1  Elmar Borrmann (GER) 5 4 5
9  Péter Vánky (SWE) 2 6 2
9  Péter Vánky (SWE) 3 5 5
41  Juan Miguel Paz (COL) 5 3 24  Robert Davidson (AUS) 5 2 3
24  Robert Davidson (AUS) 6 3 9  Péter Vánky (SWE) 3 5 5
25  Roberto Lazzarini (BRA) 3 5 5 25  Roberto Lazzarini (BRA) 5 3 3
40  Jon Normile (USA) 5 2 2 25  Roberto Lazzarini (BRA) 5 5
8  Adrian Pop (ROU) 3 3
Repechage qualifiers 1
Repechage qualifier
     
32  Jang Tae-Seok (KOR) 5 2 2
17  Maurizio Randazzo (ITA) 3 5 5
Repechage qualifier
     
24  Robert Davidson (AUS) 5 3 5
8  Adrian Pop (ROU) 1 5 2
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.

Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Round of 8
5  Éric Srecki (FRA) 6 6
37  Rafael di Tella (ARG) 2 0 28  Arnd Schmitt (GER) 5 4
28  Arnd Schmitt (GER) 5 5 5  Éric Srecki (FRA) 5 5
21  Aleš Depta (TCH) 6 5 12  Laurie Shong (CAN) 2 0
44  Ulf Sandegren (SWE) 4 2 21  Aleš Depta (TCH) 4 2
12  Laurie Shong (CAN) 6 5
5  Éric Srecki (FRA) 3 5 5
13  Kaido Kaaberma (EST) 5 1 5 13  Kaido Kaaberma (EST) 5 3 6
52  Handry Lenzun (INA) 1 5 3 13  Kaido Kaaberma (EST) 5 5
45  Mohamed Al-Hamar (KUW) 1 6 5 20  Lee Sang-Gi (KOR) 2 3
20  Lee Sang-Gi (KOR) 5 4 6 13  Kaido Kaaberma (EST) 6 6
29  Fernando de la Peña (ESP) 3 6 6 29  Fernando de la Peña (ESP) 4 5
36  André Kuhn (SUI) 5 4 4 29  Fernando de la Peña (ESP) 6 5 6
4  Krisztián Kulcsár (HUN) 5 6 5
Repechage qualifiers 2
Repechage qualifier
     
28  Arnd Schmitt (GER) 5 4
21  Aleš Depta (TCH) 6 6
Repechage qualifier
     
20  Lee Sang-Gi (KOR) 4 3
4  Krisztián Kulcsár (HUN) 6 5
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.

Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Round of 8
3  Mauricio Rivas (COL) 5 6 6
35  Raúl Maroto (ESP) 5 3 30  Jean-Marc Chouinard (CAN) 6 5 5
30  Jean-Marc Chouinard (CAN) 6 5 3  Mauricio Rivas (COL) 5 6 5
19  Michael O'Brien (IRL) 3 2 14  Olivier Lenglet (FRA) 6 5 2
46  Olivier Jacquet (SUI) 5 5 46  Olivier Jacquet (SUI) 5 5
51  Cornel Milan (ROU) 3 1 14  Olivier Lenglet (FRA) 6 5
14  Olivier Lenglet (FRA) 5 5 3  Mauricio Rivas (COL) 3 3
6  Iván Kovács (HUN) 5 5
11  Sandro Cuomo (ITA) 3 3
43  Robert Marx (USA) 6 5 43  Robert Marx (USA) 5 5
22  Roman Ječmínek (TCH) 4 2 43  Robert Marx (USA) 3 1
27  Serhiy Kravchuk (EUN) 6 6 6  Iván Kovács (HUN) 5 5
36  Viktor Zuikov (EST) 5 4 27  Serhiy Kravchuk (EUN) 0 3
6  Iván Kovács (HUN) 5 5
Repechage qualifiers 3
Repechage qualifier
     
30  Jean-Marc Chouinard (CAN) 6 5
46  Olivier Jacquet (SUI) 4 2
Repechage qualifier
     
11  Sandro Cuomo (ITA) 2 3
27  Serhiy Kravchuk (EUN) 5 5
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.

Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Round of 8
7  Jean-Michel Henry (FRA) 5 5
39  Ferenc Hegedűs (HUN) 5 3 26  Thomas Lundblad (SWE) 1 1
26  Thomas Lundblad (SWE) 6 5 7  Jean-Michel Henry (FRA) 5 5 3
23  Danek Nowosielski (CAN) 1 5 5 10  Robert Felisiak (GER) 3 6 5
42  Gavin McLean (NZL) 5 3 1 23  Danek Nowosielski (CAN) 0 4
10  Robert Felisiak (GER) 5 6
10  Robert Felisiak (GER) 2 3
15  Kim Jeong-Gwan (KOR) 1 2 18  Pavel Kolobkov (EUN) 5 5
50  Sławomir Nawrocki (POL) 5 5 50  Sławomir Nawrocki (POL) 6 2 2
47  Manuel Pereira (ESP) 1 6 1 18  Pavel Kolobkov (EUN) 4 5 5
18  Pavel Kolobkov (EUN) 5 5 5 18  Pavel Kolobkov (EUN) 5 6
31  Jiří Douba (TCH) 1 5 5 31  Jiří Douba (TCH) 2 5
34  Gabriel Pantelimon (ROU) 5 2 2 31  Jiří Douba (TCH) 5 5
2  Angelo Mazzoni (ITA) 2 2
Repechage qualifiers 4
Repechage qualifier
     
26  Thomas Lundblad (SWE) 3 6 5
23  Danek Nowosielski (CAN) 5 4 6
Repechage qualifier
     
50  Sławomir Nawrocki (POL) 2 3
2  Angelo Mazzoni (ITA) 5 5

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 (new) #10, setting up a rematch against (new) #7 de la Peña; Kulcsár and Mazzoni were swapped to #9 and #10, respectively. Original seeds are shown in parentheses in the brackets.

R1 seedO seedFencerNation
From round of 16
17Jean-Michel Henry France
212Laurie Shong Canada
314Olivier Lenglet France
416Andrey Shuvalov Unified Team
525Roberto Lazzarini Brazil
631Jiří Douba Czechoslovakia
729Fernando de la Peña Spain
843Robert Marx United States
From round of 32 and qualifiers
94Krisztián Kulcsár Hungary
102Angelo Mazzoni Italy
1117Maurizio Randazzo Italy
1221Aleš Depta Czechoslovakia
1323Danek Nowosielski Canada
1427Serhiy Kravchuk Unified Team
1524Robert Davidson Australia
1630Jean-Marc Chouinard Canada
Repechage rounds 1 and 2 bracket 1
Repechage round 1 Repechage round 2
1 (7)  Jean-Michel Henry (FRA) 5 5
16 (30)  Jean-Marc Chouinard (CAN) 3 3 1 (7)  Jean-Michel Henry (FRA) 5 2 5
9 (4)  Krisztián Kulcsár (HUN) 5 3 6 9 (4)  Krisztián Kulcsár (HUN) 2 5 2
8 (43)  Robert Marx (USA) 2 5 5
Repechage rounds 1 and 2 bracket 2
Repechage round 1 Repechage round 2
5 (25)  Roberto Lazzarini (BRA) 1 2
12 (21)  Aleš Depta (TCH) 5 5 12 (21)  Aleš Depta (TCH) 1 2
13 (23)  Danek Nowosielski (CAN) 1 1 4 (16)  Andrey Shuvalov (EUN) 5 5
4 (16)  Andrey Shuvalov (EUN) 5 5
Repechage rounds 1 and 2 bracket 3
Repechage round 1 Repechage round 2
3 (14)  Olivier Lenglet (FRA) 3 6 4
14 (27)  Serhiy Kravchuk (EUN) 5 5 6 14 (27)  Serhiy Kravchuk (EUN) 5 5 5
11 (17)  Maurizio Randazzo (ITA) 6 6 11 (17)  Maurizio Randazzo (ITA) 2 6 1
6 (31)  Jiří Douba (TCH) 5 5
Repechage rounds 1 and 2 bracket 4
Repechage round 1 Repechage round 2
7 (29)  Fernando de la Peña (ESP) 5 2 3
10 (2)  Angelo Mazzoni (ITA) 1 5 5 10 (2)  Angelo Mazzoni (ITA) 6 5
15 (24)  Robert Davidson (AUS) 6 5 3 2 (12)  Laurie Shong (CAN) 4 3
2 (12)  Laurie Shong (CAN) 5 6 5

Repechage round 3

The fencers were reseeded again. Seeds 1–4 were given to round 8 losers, based on their original seeds (Vánky and Felisiak, who had been swapped to avoid having two German fencers in main bracket 1, were reseeded as if they had not been swapped). 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.

R3 seedR1 seedO seedFencerNation
From round of 8
13Mauricio Rivas Colombia
25Éric Srecki France
310Robert Felisiak Germany
49Péter Vánky Sweden
From repechage round 2
517Jean-Michel Henry France
6102Angelo Mazzoni Italy
7416Andrey Shuvalov Unified Team
81427Serhiy Kravchuk Unified Team
Repechage round 3 bracket 1
Repechage round 3
     
1 (3)  Mauricio Rivas (COL) 5 6
8 (27)  Serhiy Kravchuk (EUN) 2 4
Repechage round 3 bracket 2
Repechage round 3
     
5 (7)  Jean-Michel Henry (FRA) 5 6
4 (10)  Péter Vánky (SWE) 3 4
Repechage round 3 bracket 3
Repechage round 3
     
3 (10)  Robert Felisiak (GER) 4 3
6 (2)  Angelo Mazzoni (ITA) 6 5
Repechage round 3 bracket 4
Repechage round 3
     
7 (16)  Andrey Shuvalov (EUN) 3 2
2 (5)  Éric Srecki (FRA) 5 5

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.

F seedR3 seedR1 seedO seedFencerNation
From round of 8
11Elmar Borrmann Germany
28Marian Sypniewski Poland
313Kaido Kaaberma Estonia
418Pavel Kolobkov Unified Team
From repechage round 3
56102Angelo Mazzoni Italy
613Mauricio Rivas Colombia
725Éric Srecki France
8517Jean-Michel Henry France
Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
               
1 (1)  Elmar Borrmann (GER) 5 4 0
8 (7)  Jean-Michel Henry (FRA) 2 6 5
8 (7)  Jean-Michel Henry (FRA) 3 5 5
4 (18)  Pavel Kolobkov (EUN) 5 2 6
5 (2)  Angelo Mazzoni (ITA) 5 0 2
4 (18)  Pavel Kolobkov (EUN) 0 5 5
4 (18)  Pavel Kolobkov (EUN) 5 2
7 (5)  Éric Srecki (FRA) 6 5
3 (13)  Kaido Kaaberma (EST) 5 5
6 (3)  Mauricio Rivas (COL) 3 3
3 (13)  Kaido Kaaberma (EST) 2 3 Bronze match
7 (5)  Éric Srecki (FRA) 5 5
7 (5)  Éric Srecki (FRA) 5 4 5 8 (7)  Jean-Michel Henry (FRA) 2 5 5
2 (8)  Marian Sypniewski (POL) 3 6 1 3 (13)  Kaido Kaaberma (EST) 5 2 3

Final classification

FencerCountry
Éric Srecki France
Pavel Kolobkov Unified Team
Jean-Michel Henry France
Kaido Kaaberma Estonia
Elmar Borrmann Germany
Angelo Mazzoni Italy
Mauricio Rivas Colombia
Iván Kovács Hungary
Robert Felisiak Germany
Péter Vánky Sweden
Andrey Shuvalov Unified Team
Serhiy Kravchuk Unified Team
Krisztián Kulcsár Hungary
Laurie Shong Canada
Maurizio Randazzo Italy
Aleš Depta Czechoslovakia
Olivier Lenglet France
Danek Nowosielski Canada
Robert Davidson Australia
Roberto Lazzarini Brazil
Jiří Douba Czechoslovakia
Jean-Marc Chouinard Canada
Fernando de la Peña Spain
Robert Marx United States
Adrian Pop Romania
Sandro Cuomo Italy
Lee Sang-Gi South Korea
Thomas Lundblad Sweden
Arnd Schmitt Germany
Jang Tae-Seok South Korea
Olivier Jacquet Switzerland
Sławomir Nawrocki Poland
Kim Jeong-Gwan South Korea
Michael O'Brien Ireland
Roman Ječmínek Czechoslovakia
Gabriel Pantelimon Romania
Maciej Ciszewski Poland
Raúl Maroto Spain
Viktor Zuikov Estonia
André Kuhn Switzerland
Rafael di Tella Argentina
Ferenc Hegedűs Hungary
Jon Normile United States
Juan Miguel Paz Colombia
Gavin McLean New Zealand
Ulf Sandegren Sweden
Mohamed Al-Hamar Kuwait
Manuel Pereira Spain
Cornel Milan Romania
Wong James Singapore
Norikazu Tanabe Japan
Handry Lenzun Indonesia
Steven Paul Great Britain
Scott Arnold Australia
Chris O'Loughlin United States
Witold Gadomski Poland
Daniel Lang Switzerland
Zahi El-Khoury Lebanon
Lucas Zakaria Indonesia
Rui Frazão Portugal
Luciano Finardi Brazil
José Bandeira Portugal
Francisco Papaiano Brazil
Michel Youssef Lebanon
Tan Ronald Singapore
José Marcelo Álvarez Paraguay
Dario Torrente South Africa
Enzo da Ponte Paraguay
Trevor Strydom South Africa
Hein van Garderen South Africa

References

  1. "Fencing: 1992 Olympic Results - Men's épée". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 16 March 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
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