The men's team sabre was one of eight

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, ...

events on the

fencing at the 1960 Summer Olympics At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, eight events in fencing (sport), fencing were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (Épée (fencing), épée, Foil (fencing), foil and Sabre (fencing), ...

programme. It was the eleventh appearance of the event. The competition was held on 10 September 1960. 80 fencers from 16 nations competed.

Competition format

The competition combined pool play with knockout rounds, a change from prior tournaments which used pool play all the way through. The first round consisted of pools, with the 18 teams entered in the competition divided into 6 pools of 3 teams (2 teams withdrew, so 2 pools had only 2 teams each). The top 2 teams in each pool after a round-robin advanced. The 12 teams remaining after the pool play competed in a four-round single-elimination bracket, with a bronze medal match between the semifinal losers. The winners of the first 4 pools received byes in the round of 16. Each team match consisted of each of the four fencers on one team facing each fencer on the other team, for a maximum of 16 total bouts. An 8–8 tie would be resolved by touches received in victories. Bouts were to 5 touches. Only as much fencing was done as was necessary to determine pool placement (in the first round) or the winning team (in the knockout rounds), so not all matches went to the full 16 bouts but instead stopped early (typically when one team had 9 bouts won).Official Report, p. 830.

Results

Elimination

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

Championship rounds

Rosters

;Argentina * Rafael González * Juan Larrea *

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 ...

* Gustavo Vassallo ;Austria * Helmuth Resch * Paul Kerb * Hans Hocke * Günther Ulrich * Josef Wanetschek ;Belgium * José Van Baelen * Gustave Ballister * Marcel Van Der Auwera * François Heywaert * Roger Petit ;France * Marcel Parent * Claude Gamot * Jacques Lefèvre * Jacques Roulot * Claude Arabo ;Germany * Dieter Löhr * Jürgen Theuerkauff * Wilfried Wöhler * Peter von Krockow * Walter Köstner ;Great Britain *

Ralph Cooperman Arnold Ralph Cooperman (16 November 1927 – 22 March 2009) was a British three-time Olympic foil and sabre fencer. Personal life Cooperman was born in Stoke Newington, England, and was Jewish. Fencing career He won the British junior ...

* Michael Amberg * Sandy Leckie * Michael Straus * Donald Stringer ;Hungary * Aladár Gerevich * Rudolf Kárpáti *

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* Zoltán Horváth * Gábor Delneky *

Tamás Mendelényi Tamás Mendelényi (2 May 1936 – 6 September 1999) was a Hungarian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the ...

;Italy * Wladimiro Calarese * Giampaolo Calanchini * Pierluigi Chicca * Mario Ravagnan * Roberto Ferrari ;Japan * Sonosuke Fujimaki * Mitsuyuki Funamizu * Tsugeo Ozawa * Kazuhiko Tabuchi ;Morocco * Abderrahman Sebti * Abderraouf El-Fassy * Mohamed Ben Joullon * Jacques Ben Gualid ;Poland *

Jerzy Pawłowski Jerzy Władysław Pawłowski (25 October 1932 – 11 January 2005) was a Polish fencer and double agent. Life While a major in the Polish Army, Pawłowski won the gold medal in the individual saber event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico ...

* Wojciech Zabłocki * Marek Kuszewski *

Ryszard Zub Ryszard Zub (24 March 1934 – 11 January 2015) was a Polish fencer. He won a silver medal in the team sabre events at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the an ...

* Andrzej Piątkowski * Emil Ochyra ;Portugal * Joaquim Rodrigues * António Marquilhas * Orlando Azinhais * José Ferreira * José Fernandes ;Romania * Dumitru Mustață * Cornel Pelmuș * Ion Santo * Ladislau Rohony * Emeric Arus ;Soviet Union * Yevhen Cherepovsky * Umyar Mavlikhanov * Nugzar Asatiani * David Tyshler * Yakov Rylsky ;Spain * Jesús Díez * César de Diego * Pablo Ordejón * Ramón Martínez ;United States *

Allan Kwartler Allan S. Kwartler (nicknamed "Doc"; September 10, 1917 – November 11, 1998), born in New York City, was an American sabre and foil fencer. He was Pan-American sabre champion, 3-time Olympian, and twice a member of sabre teams that earned ...

* George Worth * Michael D'Asaro, Sr. * Alfonso Morales * Tibor Nyilas * Dick Dyer

References

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