Fencing at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

Men's team sabre at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Venue	Schermzaal
Dates	August 8 - 9, 1928
Competitors	65 from 12 nations
Medalists
Ödön von Tersztyánszky, János Garay, Attila Petschauer, József Rády, Sándor Gombos, Gyula Glykais   Hungary   Bino Bini, Oreste Puliti, Giulio Sarrocchi, Renato Anselmi, Emilio Salafia, Gustavo Marzi   Italy   Adam Papée, Tadeusz Friedrich, Kazimierz Laskowski, Władysław Segda, Aleksander Małecki, Jerzy Zabielski   Poland

Fencing at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Épée	men
Team épée	men
Foil	men		women
Team foil	men
Sabre	men
Team sabre	men

The men's team sabre was one of seven fencing events on the Fencing at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifth appearance of the event. The competition was held from August 8, 1928 to August 9, 1928. 65 fencers from 12 nations competed.^[1]

Rosters

Results

Source: Official results;^[2] De Wael^[3]

Round 1

Each pool was a round-robin (with matches not being held where unnecessary to the overall result). Bouts were to five touches, and each fencer from one nation had a bout against each from the opponent. The nation which won the most individual bouts took the team bout (with total touches as the tie-breaker if the teams split 8-8). The top two nations in each pool advanced to the semifinals.

Pool A
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	France	1	0	Q
	Italy	1	0	Q
3	Greece	0	2

Pool B
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Hungary	2	0	Q
	Poland	2	0	Q
3	Great Britain	0	2
	United States	0	2

Pool C
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Netherlands	1	0	Q
2	Turkey	0	1	Q

Pool D
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Belgium	1	0	Q
	Germany	1	0	Q
3	Chile	0	2

Semifinals

Each pool was a round-robin (with matches not being held where unnecessary to the overall result). Bouts were to five touches, and each fencer from one nation had a bout against each from the opponent. The nation which won the most individual bouts took the team bout (with total touches as the tie-breaker if the teams split 8-8). The top two nations in each pool advanced to the final.

Pool A
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Italy	2	0	Q
2	Poland	2	1	Q
3	Netherlands	1	2
4	Belgium	0	2

Pool B
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Qual.
1	Hungary	2	0	Q
2	Germany	2	1	Q
3	France	1	2
4	Turkey	0	2

Final

The final was a round-robin. Bouts were to five touches, and each fencer from one nation had a bout against each from the opponent. The nation which won the most individual bouts took the team bout (with total touches as the tie-breaker if the teams split 8-8).

Hungary beat both Italy and Poland, which had each beaten Germany; therefore, the Hungary-Germany match was unnecessary as Hungary would win gold and Germany take fourth regardless of the results. The reason for not holding the Italy-Poland match is less clear; the official report says it was not necessary, but presumably the winner would be the silver medalist while the loser would take the bronze. Italy had defeated Poland 16-0 in the semifinals, which may have been how the final placing was decided.

Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses
01 !	Hungary	2	0
02 !	Italy	1	1
03 !	Poland	1	1
4	Germany	0	2

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