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.
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.Official Report, p. 370.
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.
Pool 1
Egypt (13–3) and Czechoslovakia (9–2) each defeated Mexico.
Rank Nation Notes 1 1 0 13 3 2 1 0 9 2 3 0 2 5 22
Pool 2
Austria (14–2) and France (9–1) each defeated Switzerland.
Rank Nation Notes 1 1 0 14 2 2 1 0 9 1 3 0 2 3 23
Pool 3
Poland (11–5) and Belgium (9–2) each defeated Turkey.
Rank Nation Notes 1 1 0 11 5 2 1 0 9 2 3 0 2 7 20
Pool 4
The Netherlands (13–3) and Italy (9–1) each defeated Canada.
Rank Nation Notes 1 1 0 13 3 2 1 0 9 1 3 0 2 4 22
Pool 5
The United States (14–2) and Argentina (9–1) each defeated Greece.
Rank Nation Notes 1 1 0 14 2 2 1 0 9 1 3 0 2 3 23
Pool 6
Denmark withdrew, leaving Great Britain and Hungary to advance unopposed.
Rank Nation Notes 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 Withdrew
Round 2
The top two teams in each pool advanced to the semifinals.Official Report, p. 371.
Pool 1
Belgium (13–3) and Hungary (9–3) each defeated Egypt.
Rank Nation Notes 1 1 0 13 3 2 1 0 9 3 3 0 2 6 22
Pool 2
The United States (11–5) and Italy (9–4) each defeated Great Britain.
Rank Nation Notes 1 1 0 11 5 2 1 0 9 4 3 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 Notes 1 2 0 18 14 2 1 1 17 15 3 0 2 13 19
Pool 4
France (10–6) and Poland (8–8, 55–59 touches against) each defeated Austria.
Rank Nation Notes 1 1 0 10 6 2 1 0 8 8 3 0 2 14 18
Semifinals
The top two teams in each pool advanced to the final.Official Report, p. 372.
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 Notes 1 2 0 27 4 2 2 0 18 11 3 0 2 10 21 4 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 Notes 1 2 0 22 8 2 2 0 20 7 3 0 2 10 20 4 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 3 0 29 13 2 1 24 24 1 2 24 23 4 0 3 12 29
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