Fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

Men's team sabre at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Fernando Montes de Oca Fencing Hall
Dates	20 – 21 October
Competitors	56 from 12 nations
Medalists
Umyar Mavlikhanov Mark Rakita Viktor Sidyak Vladimir Nazlymov Eduard Vinokurov   Soviet Union Wladimiro Calarese Rolando Rigoli Pierluigi Chicca Michele Maffei Cesare Salvadori   Italy Tibor Pézsa Miklós Meszéna János Kalmár Péter Bakonyi Tamás Kovács   Hungary
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The men's team sabre was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme. It was the thirteenth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 20 to 21 October 1968. 56 fencers from 12 nations competed. ^[1]

Results

Round 1

Ties between teams were broken by individual victories (in parentheses), then by touches received.

Pool A
1.	Soviet Union  (URS)	2-0 (24:2)	Q2
2.	Great Britain  (GBR)	1-1 (12:4)	Q2
3.	Mexico  (MEX)	0-2 (6:26)

Pool B
1.	Hungary  (HUN)	2-0 (29:3)	Q2
2.	West Germany  (FRG)	1-1 (17:15)	Q2
3.	Ireland  (IRL)	0-2 (2:30)

Pool C
1.	Italy  (ITA)	2-0 (24:3)	Q2
2.	United States  (USA)	1-1 (13:14)	Q2
3.	Argentina  (ARG)	0-2 (6:26)

Pool D
1.	France  (FRA)	2-0 (22:10)	Q2
2.	Poland  (POL)	1-1 (20:12)	Q2
3.	Cuba  (CUB)	0-2 (6:26)

Championship rounds

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Soviet Union  (URS)	9
	Great Britain  (GBR)	1
					Soviet Union  (URS)	9
					France  (FRA)	4
	France  (FRA)	9
	Poland  (POL)	2
									Soviet Union  (URS)	9
									Italy  (ITA)	7
	Italy  (ITA)	8
	United States  (USA)	6
					Italy  (ITA)	9
					Hungary  (HUN)	6			Third place
	Hungary  (HUN)	9
	West Germany  (FRG)	4
									Hungary  (HUN)	9
									France  (FRA)	5

Fifth place semifinal

	Fifth place semifinals				Fifth place match
	Poland  (POL)	9
	Great Britain  (GBR)	2
					Poland  (POL)	9
					United States  (USA)	5
	United States  (USA)	9
	West Germany  (FRG)	7

Rosters

Argentina Román Quinos Juan Carlos Frecia Guillermo Saucedo Alberto Lanteri Cuba Manuel Ortiz José Narciso Díaz Joaquin Tack-Fang Félix Delgado France Marcel Parent Claude Arabo Bernard Vallée Serge Panizza Jean-Ernest Ramez Great Britain Sandy Leckie Rodney Craig David Acfield Richard Oldcorn

Hungary Tibor Pézsa Miklós Meszéna János Kalmár Péter Bakonyi Tamás Kovács Ireland Colm O'Brien Fionbarr Farrell Michael Ryan John Bouchier-Hayes Italy Wladimiro Calarese Rolando Rigoli Pierluigi Chicca Michele Maffei Cesare Salvadori Mexico William Fajardo Gustavo Chapela Héctor Abaunza Vicente Calderón Román Gómez

Poland Jerzy Pawłowski Józef Nowara Franciszek Sobczak Zygmunt Kawecki Emil Ochyra Soviet Union Umyar Mavlikhanov Mark Rakita Viktor Sidyak Vladimir Nazlymov Eduard Vinokurov United States Alex Orban Alfonso Morales Anthony Keane Robert Blum Thomas Balla West Germany Percy Borucki Walter Köstner Paul Wischeidt Klaus Allisat Volker Duschner

References

1. "Fencing: 1968 Olympic Results - Men's team sabre". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2010.