Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's team sabre

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The men's team sabre was one of four fencing events on the Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. The event was won by the Hungarian team, who also took the top two medals in the individual sabre event.

1 Medallists
2 Results
- 2.1 First round
  - 2.1.1 Semifinals
    - 2.1.1.1 Final
  - 2.1.2 Repechage
    - 2.1.2.1 Silver medal match
3 Notes
4 Sources

[edit] Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary^[1] Jenö Fuchs Oszkar Gerde Péter Tóth Lajos Werkner	Italy^[2] Marcello Bertinetti Riccardo Nowak Abelardo Olivier Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli	Bohemia^[3] Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedrich Schejbal Jaroslav Šourek-Tucek

[edit] Results

[edit] First round

Winners advanced, losers out. The team that was defeated by the eventual champions moved to the repechage.

Winners			Losers
Nation	Fencers	Bouts lost	Bouts lost	Fencers	Nation
Italy	Marcello Bertinetti Sante Ceccherini Abelardo Olivier Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli	5	11	H. Evan James William Marsh Arthur Murray Charles Wilson	Great Britain
France	Georges de la Falaise Bernard de Lesseps Marc Perrodon Jean-Joseph Renaud	6	10	André du Bosch Etienne Grade Antoine van Tomme Joseph van der Voodt	Belgium
Bohemia	Otakar Lada Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedrich Schejbal	8	9	Jetze Doorman Adrianus de Jong Jacob van Löben Sels George van Rossem	Netherlands
Hungary	Jenö Fuchs Oszkar Gerde Péter Tóth Lajos Werkner	0	9	Jakob Erkrath de Bary Fritz Jack Robert Krünert August Petri	Germany

[edit] Semifinals

Winners advanced to play for the gold medal, loser to eventual champion was sent to repechage.

Winners			Losers
Nation	Fencers	Bouts lost	Bouts lost	Fencers	Nation
Bohemia	Otakar Lada Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedrich Schejbal	7	9	Georges de la Falaise Bernard de Lesseps Marc Perrodon Jean-Joseph Renaud	France
Hungary	Deszö Földes Jenö Fuchs Oszkar Gerde Péter Tóth	5	11	Marcelo Bertinetti Sante Ceccherini Abelardo Olivier Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli	Italy

[edit] Final

The winner received the gold medal, while the loser had to play the winner of the repechage in the silver medal match.

Winners			Losers
Nation	Fencers	Bouts lost	Bouts lost	Fencers	Nation
Hungary	Jenö Fuchs Oszkar Gerde Péter Tóth Lajos Werkner	7	9	Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedrich Schejbal Jaroslav Šourek-Tucek	Bohemia

[edit] Repechage

Germany and Italy had been defeated by Hungary, the winner of the final, in the first two rounds. The two teams faced each other for the right to advance to the silver medal match against the loser of the final.

Winners			Losers
Nation	Fencers	Bouts lost	Bouts lost	Fencers	Nation
Italy	Marcelo Bertinetti Riccardo Nowak Abelardo Olivier Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli	4	10	Jakob Erkrath de Bary Fritz Jack Robert Krünert August Petri	Germany

[edit] Silver medal match

The winner took the silver medal, with loser receiving bronze. The Bohemian team refused to play the match, arguing that as finalists they had already secured second place. The organizing committee awarded silver medals to Italy, relegating the Bohemian team to bronze medals.

Winners			Losers
Nation	Fencers	Hits against	Hits against	Fencers	Nation
Italy	No match; Bohemia did not start				Bohemia

[edit] Notes

^ Deszö Földes competed in the semifinal for Hungary, but is not awarded a gold medal by the IOC.
^ Sante Ceccherini fenced for Italy in the first round and semifinals, but is not considered to be a silver medallist by the IOC.
^ Otakar Lada also competed for Bohemia in the first round and semifinal, but is not listed as a bronze medallist by the IOC.

[edit] Sources

Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Fencing 1908". Accessed 1 May 2006. Available electronically at [1].