Fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

The men's team sabre 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 10 August 1948 to 11 August 1948. 85 fencers from 17 nations competed.^[1]

Men's team sabre at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Wembley Palace of Engineering, London
Dates	10 – 11 August
Competitors	85 from 17 nations
Medalists
Aladár Gerevich Tibor Berczelly Rudolf Kárpáti Pál Kovács László Rajcsányi Bertalan Papp  Hungary Vincenzo Pinton Gastone Darè Carlo Turcato Mauro Racca Aldo Montano Renzo Nostini  Italy Norman Cohn-Armitage George Worth Tibor Nyilas Dean Cetrulo Miguel de Capriles James Flynn  United States
← 1936 1952 →

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. 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. Pool matches unnecessary to the result were not played.^[2]

Rosters

Argentina Manuel Agüero José D'Andrea Edgardo Pomini Jorge Cermesoni Fernando Huergo Daniel Sande Austria Werner Plattner Heinz Putzl Heinz Lechner Hubert Loisel Belgium Robert Bayot Georges de Bourguignon Ferdinand Jassogne Eugène Laermans Marcel Nys Édouard Yves Canada Robert Desjarlais Alf Horn Roland Asselin Georges Pouliot Czechoslovakia Jindřich Kakos Svatopluk Skýva Jaroslav Starý Alois Sokol Jindřich Chmela Egypt Salah Dessouki Mohamed Zulficar Mahmoud Younes Ahmed Abou-Shadi

France Jean-François Tournon Jean Parent Maurice Gramain Jacques Lefèvre Jean Levavasseur Georges Lévêcque Great Britain Arthur Pilbrow George Moore Emrys Lloyd Roger Tredgold Robin Brook Greece Nikolaos Khristogiannopoulos Athanasios Nanopoulos Ioannis Karamazakis Andreas Skotidas Hungary Aladár Gerevich Tibor Berczelly Rudolf Kárpáti Pál Kovács László Rajcsányi Bertalan Papp Italy Vincenzo Pinton Gastone Darè Carlo Turcato Mauro Racca Aldo Montano Renzo Nostini Mexico Benito Ramos Francisco Valero Antonio Haro Fidel Luña

Netherlands Henny ter Weer Antoon Hoevers Willem van den Berg Frans Mosman Eddy Kuijpers Poland Antoni Sobik Bolesław Banaś Teodor Zaczyk Jerzy Wójcik Jan Nawrocki Switzerland Roland Turian Alphonse Ruckstuhl Otto Greter Walter Widemann Turkey Merih Sezen Nihat Balkan Rıza Arseven Sabri Tezcan Vural Balcan United States Norman Cohn-Armitage George Worth Tibor Nyilas Dean Cetrulo Miguel de Capriles James Flynn

Results

Round 1

The top two teams in each pool advanced to round 2.^[2]

Pool 1

Egypt (13–3) and Czechoslovakia (9–2) each defeated Mexico.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	Egypt	1	0	13	3	Q
2	Czechoslovakia	1	0	9	2	Q
3	Mexico	0	2	5	22

Pool 2

Austria (14–2) and France (9–1) each defeated Switzerland.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	Austria	1	0	14	2	Q
2	France	1	0	9	1	Q
3	Switzerland	0	2	3	23

Pool 3

Poland (11–5) and Belgium (9–2) each defeated Turkey.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	Poland	1	0	11	5	Q
2	Belgium	1	0	9	2	Q
3	Turkey	0	2	7	20

Pool 4

The Netherlands (13–3) and Italy (9–1) each defeated Canada.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	Netherlands	1	0	13	3	Q
2	Italy	1	0	9	1	Q
3	Canada	0	2	4	22

Pool 5

The United States (14–2) and Argentina (9–1) each defeated Greece.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	United States	1	0	14	2	Q
2	Argentina	1	0	9	1	Q
3	Greece	0	2	3	23

Pool 6

Denmark withdrew, leaving Great Britain and Hungary to advance unopposed.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	Great Britain	0	0	0	0	Q
1	Hungary	0	0	0	0	Q
3	Denmark	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Round 2

The top two teams in each pool advanced to the semifinals.^[3]

Pool 1

Belgium (13–3) and Hungary (9–3) each defeated Egypt.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	Belgium	1	0	13	3	Q
2	Hungary	1	0	9	3	Q
3	Egypt	0	2	6	22

Pool 2

The United States (11–5) and Italy (9–4) each defeated Great Britain.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	United States	1	0	11	5	Q
2	Italy	1	0	9	4	Q
3	Great Britain	0	2	9	20

Pool 3

Argentina beat the Netherlands 9–7, the Netherlands beat Czechoslovakia 10–6, and Argentina defeated Czechoslovakia 9–7.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	Argentina	2	0	18	14	Q
2	Netherlands	1	1	17	15	Q
3	Czechoslovakia	0	2	13	19

Pool 4

France (10–6) and Poland (8–8, 55–59 touches against) each defeated Austria.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	France	1	0	10	6	Q
2	Poland	1	0	8	8	Q
3	Austria	0	2	14	18

Semifinals

The top two teams in each pool advanced to the final.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Hungary beat Argentina 15–1, Belgium defeated Poland 9–7, Belgium defeated Argentina 9–4, and Hungary beat Poland 12–3.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	Hungary	2	0	27	4	Q
2	Belgium	2	0	18	11	Q
3	Poland	0	2	10	21
4	Argentina	0	2	5	24

Semifinal 2

Italy beat the Netherlands 13–3, the United States defeated France 11–5, the United States defeated the Netherlands 9–2, and Italy beat France 9–5.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL	Notes
1	Italy	2	0	22	8	Q
2	United States	2	0	20	7	Q
3	France	0	2	10	20
4	Netherlands	0	2	5	22

Final

In the first pairings, Italy defeated Belgium and Hungary beat the United States, each by a score of 10–6. Hungary (9–1 over Belgium) and Italy (8–8 over the United States, prevailing by touches received 59–61) won again in the second set of matches as well. The United States beat Belgium 10–5 in a de facto bronze medal match, while Hungary prevailed 10–6 over Italy for the gold medal.

Rank	Nation	MW	ML	BW	BL
	Hungary	3	0	29	13
	Italy	2	1	24	24
	United States	1	2	24	23
4	Belgium	0	3	12	29

References

1. "Fencing: 1948 Olympic Results - Men's team sabre". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
2. Official Report, p. 370.
3. Official Report, p. 371.
4. Official Report, p. 372.