The men's team épée competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok was held on 17 December 1998 at the Thammasat Gymnasium 4.
The field of nine teams competed in a single-elimination tournament to determine the medal winners. Semifinal losers proceeded to a bronze medal match. Each match features the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with 9 three-minute bouts to 5 points; the winning team is the one that reaches 45 total points first or is leading after the end of the nine bouts. Standard épée rules regarding target area, striking, and priority are used.
The top seed South Korea (Choi Yong-chul, Lee Sang-ki, Lee Sang-yup and Yang Roy-sung) won the gold medal after beating the defending champion (third seed) Kazakhstan (Alexandr Axenov, Dmitriy Dimov, Alexey Pistsov and Sergey Shabalin) in the final 45-37. The second seed China (Dong Zhaozhi, Wang Qibing, Xiao Jian, Zhao Gang) won the bronze medal by a 45-32 win over Kyrgyzstan.
Schedule All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00) DateTimeEventThursday, 17 December 1998 09:00 Preliminaries 16:00 Finals
Results
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