The men's team épée was one of seven
fencing
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fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
At the 1956 Summer Olympics, seven fencing
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programme. It was the tenth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 28 November 1956. 55 fencers from 11 nations competed.
Competition format
The competition used a pool play format, with each team facing the other teams in the pool in a round robin. Each match consisted of 16 bouts, with 4 fencers on one team facing each of the 4 fencers on the other team. Bouts were to 5 touches. Total touches against were the tie-breaker if a match was tied 8 bouts to 8. However, only as much fencing was done as was necessary to determine advancement, so some matches never occurred and some matches were stopped before the full 16 bouts were fenced if the teams advancing from the pool could be determined.
[Official Report, p. 441.]
Rosters
;Australia
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James Wolfensohn
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Ivan Lund
Ivan Bernard Lund (13 May 1929 – 9 April 1992) was an Australian fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games. He was a longstanding member of the Melbourne-based VRI Fencing Club.
Achievements
Ivan Lund competed in four Olympic Games. ...
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Keith Hackshall
Keith Hackshall (23 December 1927 – 21 February 1992) was an Australian fencer. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII ...
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Hilbert Van Dijk
;Belgium
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François Dehez
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Roger Achten
Roger Achten (20 December 1927 – 10 April 2004) was a Belgian fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially ...
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Ghislain Delaunois
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Marcel Van Der Auwera
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Jacques Debeur
Jacques Debeur (6 December 1936 – 23 July 2004) was a Belgian fencer. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ...
;Colombia
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Alfredo Yanguas
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Emiliano Camargo
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Emilio Echeverry
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Pablo Uribe
;France
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Armand Mouyal
Armand Mouyal (13 October 1925 – 15 July 1988) was a French epee world champion fencer.
Early and personal life
Born in Oran, French Algeria, Mouyal was Jewish.
Fencing career
Mouyal began fencing in the early 1950s.
National champio ...
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Claude Nigon
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Daniel Dagallier
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Yves Dreyfus
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René Queyroux
;Great Britain
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René Paul
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Raymond Paul
Raymond Rudolf Valentine Paul (21 November 1928 – 23 December 2013) was a British fencer.
Fencing career
He competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics with the best individual result of eighth place in the foil in 1956. He won four na ...
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Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He previously held cabinet posi ...
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Bill Hoskyns
Henry William Furse "Bill" Hoskyns MBE (19 March 1931 – 4 August 2013) was a British fencer who appeared at six Olympic Games.,
Fencing career
Hoskyns, born in London won two silver medals in 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games. No British fence ...
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Allan Jay
Allan Louis Neville Jay MBE (born 30 June 1931) is a British former five-time-Olympian foil and épée fencer, and world champion.
Early life
Jay was born in London, England, and is Jewish. His father died fighting in World War II in 1943. He a ...
;Hungary
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József Sákovics
József Sákovics (26 July 1927 – 2 January 2009) was a Hungarian épée and foil fencer. He won a silver and two bronze medals at two Olympic Games. He was the husband of Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky, who also fenced at the Olympics.
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Béla Rerrich
Béla Rerrich (26 November 1917 – 24 June 2005) was a Hungarian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team épée event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
During the Melbourne Olympics the Hungarian revolution happened, and Rerri ...
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Lajos Balthazár
Lajos Balthazár (30 June 1921 – 1 February 1995) was a Hungarian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team épée event at the 1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were a ...
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Ambrus Nagy
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József Marosi
József Marosi (born 16 October 1934) is a Hungarian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team épée and a bronze in the team foil
Foil may refer to:
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Barnabás Berzsenyi
Barnabás Berzsenyi (12 February 1918 – 18 June 1993) was a Hungarian fencing, fencer. He won a silver medal in the team épée event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
References
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1993 deaths
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;Italy
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Edoardo Mangiarotti
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Giuseppe Delfino
Giuseppe Delfino (22 November 1921 – 10 August 1999) was an Italian fencer and Olympic champion in épée competition.
Biography
He won a gold medal in the épée individual event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
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Carlo Pavesi
Carlo Pavesi (10 June 1923 – 24 March 1995) was an Italian fencer. He won four gold medals in total at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics in the individual and team épée events. He competed at the Mediterranean Games in 1951, where he won a g ...
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Franco Bertinetti
Franco Bertinetti (14 July 1923 – 6 March 1995) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team épée events at the 1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central bu ...
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Giorgio Anglesio
Giorgio Anglesio (13 April 1922 – 24 July 2007) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team épée event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1951 Mediterranean Games
The 1951 Mediterranean Games, officially k ...
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Alberto Pellegrino
Alberto Pellegrino (20 May 1930 – 9 March 1996) was an Italian fencer. He won two gold and two silver medals with the Italian épée and foil teams at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games.
References
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;Luxembourg
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Émile Gretsch
Émile Gretsch (12 August 1908 – 17 July 2004) was a Luxembourgian épée and foil fencer. He competed at the 1948, 1952
Events January–February
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Jean-Fernand Leischen
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Édouard Schmit
Édouard "Edy" Schmit (born 23 December 1930) is a Luxembourgian épée fencer. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics. In 2008 he was promoted to the rank of Chevalier in the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
The Order ...
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Roger Theisen
;Soviet Union
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Arnold Chernushevich
Arnold Chernushevich (russian: Арнольд Петрович Чернушевич; 15 January 1933 – 2 September 1991) was a Soviet Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team épée event at the 1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Su ...
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Valentin Chernikov
Valentin Chernikov ( hy, Վալենտին Չեռնիկով, 1 April 1937, Yerevan – 5 January 2002, Nizhny Novgorod) was a Soviet Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team épée event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also won the g ...
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Lev Saychuk
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Revaz Tsirek'idze
Revaz Tsirek'idze ( ka, რევაზ ცირეკიძე, born 28 March 1934) is a Soviet former Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée
The ( or , ), sometimes spelled epee in English, is the largest and heav ...
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Juozas Ūdras
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Valentin Vdovichenko
;Sweden
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Berndt-Otto Rehbinder
Berndt-Otto Rehbinder (1 May 1918 – 12 December 1974) was a Swedish fencer. He won a silver medal in the team épée event at the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1 ...
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Carl Forssell
Carl Forssell (25 October 1917 – 28 November 2005) was a Swedish fencer. Competing in the team épée he won a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, a silver at the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympiala ...
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Per Carleson
Senior Colonel Per Hjalmar Ludvig Carleson (11 July 1917 – 8 June 2004) was a Swedish officer and épée fencer. Carleson was one of the founders of the Swedish Coastal Rangers.
Early life
Carleson was born on 11 July 1917 in Stockholm ...
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Bengt Ljungquist
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John Sandwall
;United States
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Skip Shurtz
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Richard Pew
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Ralph Goldstein
Ralph Myer Goldstein (October 6, 1913 – July 25, 1997) was an American Olympic épée fencer.
Early and personal life
Goldstein was born in Malden, Massachusetts, and was Jewish.[Abram Cohen
Abram "Abe" Dreyer Cohen (October 25, 1924 – February 2, 2016) was an American Olympic foil, epee, and sabre fencer.Bob Wechsler''Day by Day in Jewish Sports History''/ref>Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver''Encyclopedia of Jews in ...]
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Kinmont Hoitsma
Kinmont Hoitsma (April 10, 1934 – September 30, 2013) was an American fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He later became a teacher. His partner Cecil Beaton died in 1980.
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Results
Round 1
The top two nations in each pool advanced to the semifinals.
Pool 1
In the first set of pairings, Italy defeated Australia 11–5 and Great Britain defeated the United States 9–7. Italy and the United States split the bouts in their match 8–8, with Italy prevailing on touches against (63–65). When Great Britain took a 9–3 lead in its match against Australia, the pool was declared finished as Great Britain and Italy were both guaranteed advancement at 2–0 compared to the other two teams at 0–2.
Pool 2
In the first set of pairings, Hungary defeated Colombia 14–2 and the Soviet Union defeated Sweden 9–7. The Soviet Union defeated Colombia 15–1. When Hungary took a 9–5 lead in its match against Sweden, the pool was declared finished as Hungary and the Soviet Union were both guaranteed advancement at 2–0 compared to the other two teams at 0–2.
Pool 3
Belgium defeated Luxembourg 11–5. The match between France and Luxembourg was stopped at 9–6 because Luxembourg was then guaranteed to finish 0–2 and be eliminated.
Semifinals
The top two nations in each pool advanced to the final.
Semifinal 1
Hungary defeated Belgium 11–5 in the first match. Belgium and Italy split the bouts 8–8 in the second, with Belgium taking the match win on touches against, 63–67. This put Belgium in the position of watching the final match, needing either a Hungary win or an Italy victory by blowout (14–2 or better) to advance. When the Italy–Hungary match reached 9 bouts to 3 in Italy's favor, neither outcome was possible and Belgium was mathematically eliminated—ending the pool.
Semifinal 2
Great Britain (10–6) and then France (9–7) each defeated the Soviet Union, eliminating the latter team.
Final
The first two pairings saw Hungary defeat France (9–7) and Italy beat Great Britain (10–6). Hungary and Italy each won again in the second pairings, this time Hungary over Great Britain (10–6) and Italy against France (15–1). With two 2–0 teams and two 0–2 teams, the third set of pairings in the round-robin were effectively a gold medal match and a bronze medal match. France defeated Great Britain 9–3 to take the bronze medal, while Italy prevailed over Hungary 9–3 for the gold.
References
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Men's events at the 1956 Summer Olympics