Fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre


The men's team sabre was one of seven fencing events on the fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics 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. If the bouts were 8–8, touches received was used to determine the winning team. Pool matches unnecessary to the result were not played.

Rosters

;Argentina
;Austria
;Belgium
;Canada
;Czechoslovakia
;Egypt
;France
;Great Britain
;Greece
;Hungary
;Italy
;Mexico
;Netherlands
;Poland
;Switzerland
;Turkey
;United States

Round 1

The top two teams in each pool advanced to round 2.

Pool 1

Egypt and Czechoslovakia each defeated Mexico.
RankNationNotes
1Egypt|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for round 2

Pool 2

Austria and France each defeated Switzerland.
RankNationNotes
1Austria|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for round 2

Pool 3

Poland and Belgium each defeated Turkey.
RankNationNotes
1Poland|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for round 2

Pool 4

The Netherlands and Italy each defeated Canada.
RankNationNotes
1Netherlands|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for round 2

Pool 5

The United States and Argentina each defeated Greece.
RankNationNotes
1United States|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for round 2

Pool 6

Denmark withdrew, leaving Great Britain and Hungary to advance unopposed.
RankNationNotes
1Great Britain|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for round 2

Round 2

The top two teams in each pool advanced to the semifinals.

Pool 1

Belgium and Hungary each defeated Egypt.
RankNationNotes
1Belgium|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for semifinals

Pool 2

The United States and Italy each defeated Great Britain.
RankNationNotes
1United States|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for semifinals

Pool 3

Argentina beat the Netherlands 9–7, the Netherlands beat Czechoslovakia 10–6, and Argentina defeated Czechoslovakia 9–7.
RankNationNotes
1Argentina|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for semifinals

Pool 4

France and Poland each defeated Austria.
RankNationNotes
1France|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for semifinals

Semifinals

The top two teams in each pool advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Hungary beat Argentina 15–1, Belgium defeated Poland 9–7, Belgium defeated Argentina 9–4, and Hungary beat Poland 12–3.
RankNationNotes
1Hungary|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for final

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.
RankNationNotes
1Italy|1948 Summertooltip|Q|Qualified for final

Final

In the first pairings, Italy defeated Belgium and Hungary beat the United States, each by a score of 10–6. Hungary and Italy 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.
RankNation
Hungary|1948 Summersilver02