The –Mensteamépémen's team épée was one of seven fencing events on the fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics programme. It was the eighth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 5 August 1948 to 6 August 1948. 113 fencers from 21 nations competed.
The competition format continued the pool play round-robin from prior years. Each of the four fencers from one team would face each of the four from the other, for a total of 16 bouts per match. Bouts were to three touches. The team that won more bouts won the match, with competition potentially stopping when one team reached 9 points out of the possible 16 (this did not always occur and matches sometimes continued). If the bouts were 8–8, touches received was used to determine the winning team. (Because double-loss bouts were possible, these victory conditions were adjusted where necessary.) Pool matches unnecessary to the result were not played.
Rosters
Argentina
Vito Simonetti
Antonio Villamil
Raúl Saucedo
Floro Díaz
Jorge Balza
Adolfo Guido Lavalle
Belgium
Raymond Stasse
Léopold Hauben
Raymond Bru
Jean-Marie Radoux
Raoul Henkart
Charles Debeur
Brazil
Mario Biancalana
Fortunato de Barros
Henrique de Aguilar
Walter de Paula
Salvatore Scianamea
Canada
Robert Desjarlais
Alf Horn
Roland Asselin
Georges Pouliot
Cuba
Roberto Mañalich
Carlos Lamar
Armando Barrientos
Juan Antonio Martínez
Denmark
Mogens Lüchow
Erik Andersen
Ib Nielsen
René Dybkær
Jakob Lyng
Kenneth Flindt
Egypt
Salah Dessouki
Jean Asfar
Mahmoud Younes
Mohamed Abdel Rahman
Osman Abdel Hafeez
Finland
Nils Sjöblom
Olavi Larkas
Erkki Kerttula
Ilmari Vartia
Kauko Jalkanen
France
Henri Guérin
Henri Lepage
Marcel Desprets
Michel Pécheux
Édouard Artigas
Maurice Huet
Great Britain
Charles de Beaumont
Terry Beddard
Ronald Parfitt
Archibald Craig
Michael McCready
Bert Pelling
Greece
Athanasios Nanopoulos
Andreas Skotidas
Stefanos Zintzos
Konstantinos Bembis
Ioannis Karamazakis
Hungary
Imre Hennyei
Pál Dunay
Béla Rerrich
Béla Mikla
Lajos Balthazár
Béla Bay
Italy
Edoardo Mangiarotti
Carlo Agostoni
Dario Mangiarotti
Gino Cantone
Marco Antonio Mandruzzato
Fiorenzo Marini
Luxembourg
Jean-Fernand Leischen
Paul Anen
Émile Gretsch
Gust Lamesch
Erny Putz
Mexico
Emilio Meraz
Francisco Valero
Benito Ramos
Antonio Haro
Norway
Johan von Koss
Egill Knutzen
Alfred Eriksen
Claus Mørch Sr. Sverre Gillebo
Poland
Antoni Sobik
Rajmund Karwicki
Jan Nawrocki
Teodor Zaczyk
Bolesław Banaś
Portugal
Manuel Chagas
José de Castro
Emílio Lino
Álvaro Pinto
João Costa
Carlos Dias
Sweden
Sven Thofelt
Per Carleson
Frank Cervell
Carl Forssell
Bengt Ljungquist
Arne Tollbom
Switzerland
Fernand Thiébaud
Robert Lips
Jean Hauert
Oswald Zappelli
Otto Rüfenacht
Marc Chamay
United States
Norman Lewis
Andrew Boyd
Joe de Capriles
Donald Thompson
Albert Wolff
Ralph Goldstein
Results
Round 1
The top two teams in each pool advanced to round 2.
Pool 1
Argentina beat Poland 10–6, Poland beat Cuba 8–6, and Argentina beat Cuba 9–5.
Pool 2
Belgium defeated Mexico 10–6, Denmark beat Canada 13–2, Belgium beat Canada 12–1, and Denmark defeated Mexico 9–2.
Pool 3
The United States (9–5) and Luxembourg (8–6) each defeated Finland.
Pool 4
Chile withdrew before competition, leaving France and Norway to advance.
Pool 5
Italy (14–2) and Great Britain (8–6) each defeated Brazil.
Pool 6
Egypt (10–5) and Switzerland (8–6) each defeated Portugal.
Pool 7
Sweden (16–0) and Hungary (9–1) each defeated Greece.
Round 2
The top two teams in each pool advanced to the semifinals.