The men's team sabre was one of seven
fencing
Fencing is a group of three related combat sports. The three disciplines in modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also ''saber''); winning points are made through the weapon's contact with an opponent. A fourth discipline, s ...
events on the
fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics
At the 1948 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.
Medal summary Men's events
Women's events
Medal table
Participating nations
A total of 294 fencers (255 men and 39 women) from 30 nations comp ...
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
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Manuel Agüero
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José D'Andrea
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Edgardo Pomini
Edgardo Pomini (8 October 1917 – 23 October 1958) was an Argentine fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska som ...
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Jorge Cermesoni
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Fernando Huergo
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Daniel Sande
Daniel Sande (born 25 August 1916) was an Argentine fencer. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Gioc ...
;Austria
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Werner Plattner
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Heinz Putzl
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Heinz Lechner
Heinz Lechner (26 April 1928 – 4 November 2020) was an Austrian fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Gam ...
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Hubert Loisel
Hubert Loisel (23 April 1912 – 24 February 1999) was an Austrian fencer. He competed at the 1936, 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially know ...
;Belgium
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Robert Bayot
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Georges de Bourguignon
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Ferdinand Jassogne
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Eugène Laermans
Eugène Jules Joseph Baron Laermans (22 October 1864 – 22 February 1940) was a Belgian painter.
Life
He was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. At the age of eleven, he contracted meningitis, which left him deaf and nearly mute (although some source ...
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Marcel Nys
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Édouard Yves
;Canada
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Robert Desjarlais
Robert Desjarlais (26 August 1907 – 17 July 1987) was a Canadian fencer. He competed in the three team events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 19 ...
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Alf Horn
Alf Horn (6 January 1913 – 5 April 1991) was a Canadian épée, foil and sabre fencer. He competed in five events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as Lond ...
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Roland Asselin
Roland George Arthur Asselin (May 18, 1917 – December 7, 2003) was a Canadian fencer. He competed at the 1948, 1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business dist ...
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Georges Pouliot
Georges Pouliot (February 6, 1923 – May 8, 2019) was a Canadian fencer. He competed in five events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an int ...
;Czechoslovakia
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Jindřich Kakos
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Svatopluk Skýva
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Jaroslav Starý
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Alois Sokol
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Jindřich Chmela
Jindřich is a given name. It is the Czech version of the English name Henry (given name), Henry.
People with the name include:
*Jindřich Bačkovský (1912–2000), Czech physicist
*Jindřich Balcar (born 1950), Czechoslovak ski jumper who compe ...
;Egypt
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Salah Dessouki
Salah Asfar Shishtawai J. Dessouki (22 October 1922 – 17 August 2011) was an Egyptian fencer. He won bronze medals in three fencing disciplines across four editions of the World Championships and competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olym ...
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Mohamed Zulficar
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Mahmoud Younes
Mahmoud Khattab Younes (5 March 1915 – 27 June 2001) was an Egyptian épée, foil and sabre fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. He competed at the Mediterranean Games in 1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Ko ...
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Ahmed Abou-Shadi
;France
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Jean-François Tournon
* Jean Parent
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Maurice Gramain
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Jacques Lefèvre
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Jean Levavasseur
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Georges Lévêcque
;Great Britain
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Arthur Pilbrow
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George Moore
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Emrys Lloyd
John Emrys Lloyd OBE (8 September 1905 – 28 June 1987) was a British fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games, as well as being an official at four Olympics, and the flag bearer for Great Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was later app ...
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Roger Tredgold
Roger Francis Tredgold (23 October 1911 – 24 December 1975) was a British fencer. He competed at the 1936, 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. He was a six times British fencing champion, winning the sabre title at the British Fencing Championshi ...
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Robin Brook
Sir Ralph Ellis "Robin" Brook (19 June 1908 – 25 October 1998) was a British merchant banker and a director of the Bank of England. His wife Helen Brook was founder of the Brook Advisory Centres.
As a fencing, fencer, he competed at th ...
;Greece
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Nikolaos Khristogiannopoulos
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Athanasios Nanopoulos
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Ioannis Karamazakis
Ioannis Karamazakis ( el, Ιωάννης Καραμαζάκης; died 1978) was a Greek fencer. He competed in six events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as Lond ...
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Andreas Skotidas
;Hungary
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Aladár Gerevich
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Tibor Berczelly
Tibor Berczelly (3 January 1912 – 15 October 1990) was a Hungarian sabre and foil fencer. He won three gold and two bronze medals at three Olympic Games.
References
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1912 births
1990 deaths
Hungarian male foil ...
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Rudolf Kárpáti
Rudolf Kárpáti (17 July 1920 – 1 February 1999) was a fencer from Hungary, who won six gold medals in sabre at four Olympic Games (1948–1960). He also won seven gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the world championships. For his a ...
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Pál Kovács
Pál Kovács (17 July 1912 – 8 July 1995) was a Hungarian athlete, who began as a hurdler, but eventually switched to fencing.
By the time Kovács won his first fencing gold, in 1936, he had already been a member of the winning Hungarian tea ...
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László Rajcsányi
László Rajcsányi (16 February 1907 – 5 September 1992) was a Hungarian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1936, 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Oly ...
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Bertalan Papp
Bertalan Papp (7 September 1913 – 8 August 1992) was a Hungarian fencer. He won two gold medals in the team sabre events at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska somm ...
;Italy
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Vincenzo Pinton
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Gastone Darè
Gastone Darè (18 February 1918 – 7 June 1976) was an Italian fencer and politician. He won two silver medals in the team sabre events at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1955 Mediterranean Games where he won a g ...
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Carlo Turcato
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Mauro Racca
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Aldo Montano
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Renzo Nostini
;Mexico
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Benito Ramos
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Francisco Valero
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Antonio Haro
Antonio Haro (26 October 1910 – 22 September 2002) was a Mexican épée and sabre fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.
References
External links
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1910 births
2002 deaths
Mexican male épée fencers
Olympic fencers for Me ...
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Fidel Luña
;Netherlands
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Henny ter Weer
Henny ter Weer (7 August 1922 – 12 August 2013) was a Dutch fencer. He competed in the individual and team foil and the team sabre events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad ...
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Antoon Hoevers
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Willem van den Berg
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Frans Mosman
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Eddy Kuijpers
;Poland
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Antoni Sobik
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Bolesław Banaś
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Teodor Zaczyk
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Jerzy Wójcik
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Jan Nawrocki
;Switzerland
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Roland Turian
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Alphonse Ruckstuhl
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Otto Greter
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Walter Widemann
;Turkey
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Merih Sezen
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Nihat Balkan
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Rıza Arseven
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Sabri Tezcan
Turkey competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. 58 competitors, 57 men and 1 woman, took part in 42 events in 7 sports.
Medalists
Athletics
Cycling
Four cyclists, all male, represented Turkey in 1948
; Individual road race
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Vural Balcan Vural is a Turkish name and may refer to any of the following:
Given name
* Vural Balcan, Turkish Olympic fencer
* Vural Öger
Vural Öger (born 1 February 1942) is a Turkish-German businessman and politician who served as a Member of the Eur ...
;United States
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Norman Cohn-Armitage
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George Worth
George Vitéz Worth (born György Woittitz; April 1, 1915 – January 15, 2006) was a Hungarian-born American sabre Olympic medalist fencer.
Early and personal life
Worth was born György Woittitz in Budapest, Hungary, and was Jewish. Because ...
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Tibor Nyilas
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Dean Cetrulo
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Miguel de Capriles
Miguel de Capriles (November 30, 1906 – May 24, 1981) was a Mexican-born American fencer, a President of the FIE, a former dean of the New York University School of Law and one of the world's leading authorities on fencing.
Biography
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James Flynn
Results
Round 1
The top two teams in each pool advanced to round 2.
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Pool 1
Egypt (13–3) and Czechoslovakia (9–2) each defeated Mexico.
Pool 2
Austria (14–2) and France (9–1) each defeated Switzerland.
Pool 3
Poland (11–5) and Belgium (9–2) each defeated Turkey.
Pool 4
The Netherlands (13–3) and Italy (9–1) each defeated Canada.
Pool 5
The United States (14–2) and Argentina (9–1) each defeated Greece.
Pool 6
Denmark withdrew, leaving Great Britain and Hungary to advance unopposed.
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.
Pool 2
The United States (11–5) and Italy (9–4) each defeated Great Britain.
Pool 3
Argentina beat the Netherlands 9–7, the Netherlands beat Czechoslovakia 10–6, and Argentina defeated Czechoslovakia 9–7.
Pool 4
France (10–6) and Poland (8–8, 55–59 touches against) each defeated Austria.
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.
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.
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.
References
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Sabre team
Men's events at the 1948 Summer Olympics