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Men's team épée at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	Franco-British Exhibition fencing grounds
Dates	July 24 (final)
Competitors	45 from 9 nations
Medalists
France Gaston Alibert Henri-Georges Berger Charles Collignon Eugène Olivier Bernard Gravier[1] Alexandre Lippmann[2] Jean Stern[3]  Great Britain Leaf Daniell Cecil Haig Martin Holt Robert Montgomerie Edgar Amphlett[4] Edgar Seligman[5]  Belgium Paul Anspach Désiré Beaurain Ferdinand Feyerick François Rom Fernand Bosmans[6] Fernand de Montigny[7] Victor Willems[8]
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The men's team épée was one of four fencing events on the Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. The event was won by the French team, who also swept the medals in the individual épée event. Each nation could enter a team of up to 8 fencers, with 4 fencers chosen for each match.^[9]

The tournament used a variant of the Bergvall system, holding a single elimination bracket for the gold medal with a repechage ending in a match for silver and bronze. Each match featured 4 fencers from one team facing 4 fencers from the other team, for a total of 16 individual bouts. Bouts were to 1 touch, with double-touches counting against both fencers.

With 9 teams, the main bracket consisted of a single "play-in" match in what would typically be considered the round of 16, followed by quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. Teams defeated by the gold medalist in the main bracket moved to the repechage. With 3 teams in the repechage, a repechage "semifinal" and "final" (which awarded the silver medal to the winner and bronze medal to the loser) were held.