Fencing at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

Men's team sabre at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Venue	Vélodrome d'hiver
Dates	July 12–15, 1924
Competitors	80 from 14 nations
Medalists
Renato Anselmi, Guido Balzarini, Marcello Bertinetti, Bino Bini, Vincenzo Cuccia, Oreste Moricca, Oreste Puliti, Giulio Sarrocchi   Italy László Berti, János Garay, Sándor Pósta, József Rády, Zoltán Schenker, László Széchy, Ödön Tersztyanszky, Jenö Uhlyarik   Hungary Adrianus De Jong, Jetze Doorman, Hendrik Scherpenhuyzen, Jan Van Der Wiel, Maarten Van Dulm, Henri Wynoldy-Daniels   Netherlands
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The men's team sabre was one of seven fencing events on the Fencing at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth appearance of the event.

The competition was held from Friday July 12, 1924, to Monday July 15, 1924. 14 teams, composed of 80 fencers, competed.

Rosters

Argentina

Horacio Casco Carmelo Merlo Arturo Ponce Raúl Sola Santiago Torres

Belgium

Charles Delporte Robert Feyerick Félix Goblet Léon Tom Jean-Pierre Willems

Czechoslovakia

Alexander Bárta František Dvořák Josef Jungmann Luděk Oppl Otakar Švorčík

Denmark

Jens Berthelsen Einar Levison Svend Munck Ivan Osiier Peter Ryefelt

France

Georges Conraux Henri de Saint-Germain Jean Jannekeyn Lionel Lifschitz Marc Perrodon Maurice Taillandier

Great Britain

Edward Brookfield Archibald Corble Robin Dalglish William Hammond Cecil Kershaw William Marsh

Greece

Ioannis Georgiadis Konstantinos Kotzias Konstantinos Nikolopoulos Tryfon Triantafyllakos

Italy

Renato Anselmi Guido Balzarini Marcello Bertinetti Bino Bini Vincenzo Cuccia Oreste Moricca Oreste Puliti Giulio Sarrocchi

Hungary

László Berti János Garay Sándor Pósta József Rády Zoltán Schenker László Széchy Ödön Tersztyanszky Jenö Uhlyarik

Netherlands

Adrianus De Jong Jetze Doorman Hendrik Scherpenhuyzen Jan Van Der Wiel Maarten Van Dulm Henri Wyjnoldy-Daniels

Poland

Alfred Ader Adam Papée Konrad Winkler Jerzy Zabielski

Spain

Julián de Olivares Julio González Fernando Guillén Jesús López de Lara Jaime Mela

United States

Laurence Castner Edwin Fullinwider Ernest Gignoux Arthur Lyon Chauncey McPherson Joseph Parker Albert Strauss Harold Van Buskirk

Uruguay

Héctor Belo Santos Ferreira Domingo Mendy Pedro Mendy Conrado Rolando

Results

Round 1

The top two teams in each pool advanced. Each team played each other team in its pool, unless a match was unnecessary to determine qualification. Each team match included 16 bouts: four fencers from one team faced four fencers from the other team once apiece. Bouts were to four touches.

Pool A

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.		ITA	TCH	GRE
1	Italy	2	0	25	7	Q			11–5	14–2
2	Czechoslovakia	1	1	15	17			5–11		10–6
3	Greece	0	2	8	24			2–14	6–10

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Pool B

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.		NED	USA	URU	POL
1	Netherlands	3	0	35	13	Q			10–6	9–7	16–0
2	United States	2	1	27	21			6–10		9–7	12–4
3	Uruguay	0	2	14	18			7–9	7–9
4	Poland	0	2	4	28			0–16	4–12

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Pool C

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.		FRA	ESP
1	France	w/o	w/o	–	–	Q
1	Spain	w/o	w/o	–	–

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Pool D

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.		HUN	DEN	GBR
1	Hungary	1	0	15	1	Q				15–1
2	Denmark	1	0	9	7					9–7
3	Great Britain	0	2	8	24			1–15	7–9

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Pool E

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.		ARG	BEL
1	Argentina	1	0	9	7	Q			9–7
2	Belgium	0	1	7	9			7–9

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Quarterfinals

The top two teams in each pool advanced. Each team played each other team in its pool, unless a match was unnecessary to determine qualification. Each team match included 16 bouts: four fencers from one team faced four fencers from the other team once apiece. Bouts were to four touches.

Pool A

Italy beat Belgium on touches, 50 to 46.

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.		HUN	ITA	BEL	USA
1	Hungary	2	0	24	8	Q				10–6	14–2
2	Italy	2	0	20	12					8–8	12–4
3	Belgium	0	2	14	18			6–10	8–8
4	United States	0	2	6	26			2–14	4–12

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Pool B

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.		ARG	NED	ESP
1	Argentina	2	0	23	9	Q			10–6	13–3
2	Netherlands	1	1	18	14			6–10		12–4
3	Spain	0	2	7	25			3–13	4–12

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Pool C

France beat Czechoslovakia on touches, 49 to 43.

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.		FRA	TCH	DEN
1	France	2	0	18	14	Q			8–8	10–6
2	Czechoslovakia	1	1	20	12			8–8		12–4
3	Denmark	0	2	10	22			6–10	4–12

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Semifinals

The top two teams in each pool advanced. Each team played each other team in its pool, unless the match was unnecessary to decide qualification. Each team match included 16 bouts: four fencers from one team faced four fencers from the other team once apiece. Bouts were to four touches.

Pool A

Czechoslovakia beat Argentina on touches, 47 to 45.

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.		ITA	TCH	ARG
1	Italy	1	0	14	2	Q				14–2
2	Czechoslovakia	1	0	8	8					8–8
3	Argentina	0	2	10	22			2–14	8–8

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Pool B

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.		HUN	NED	FRA
1	Hungary	1	0	10	6	Q				10–6
2	Netherlands	1	0	9	7					9–7
3	France	0	2	13	19			6–10	7–9

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Final

Each team played each other team. Each team match included 16 bouts: four fencers from one team faced four fencers from the other team once apiece. Bouts were to four touches. Italy beat Hungary on touches, 50 to 46, in a match that was the difference in the gold medal standings.

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL		ITA	HUN	NED	TCH
	Italy	3	0	28	20			8–8	9–7	11–5
	Hungary	2	1	33	15		8–8		14–2	11–5
	Netherlands	1	2	18	30		7–9	2–14		9–7
4	Czechoslovakia	0	3	17	31		5–11	5–11	7–9

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

References

• Kubatko, Justin. "Fencing at the 1924 Paris Summer Games: Men's Sabre, Team". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2009.
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2009-02-16.