The men's team sabre was one of seven fencing events on the Fencing at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth appearance of the event.
The competition was held from Friday July 12, 1924, to Monday July 15, 1924. 14 teams, composed of 80 fencers, competed.
Rosters
+ Argentina Horacio Casco Carmelo Merlo Arturo Ponce Raúl Sola Santiago Torres + Belgium Charles Delporte Robert Feyerick Félix Goblet Léon Tom Jean-Pierre Willems + Czechoslovakia Alexander Bárta František Dvořák Josef Jungmann Luděk Oppl Otakar Švorčík + Denmark Jens Berthelsen Einar Levison Svend Munck Ivan Osiier Peter Ryefelt + France Georges Conraux Henri de Saint-Germain Jean Jannekeyn Lionel Lifschitz Marc Perrodon Maurice Taillandier + Great Britain Edward Brookfield Archibald Corble Robin Dalglish William Hammond Cecil Kershaw William Marsh + Greece Ioannis Georgiadis Konstantinos Kotzias Konstantinos Nikolopoulos Tryfon Triantafyllakos + Italy Renato Anselmi Guido Balzarini Marcello Bertinetti Bino Bini Vincenzo Cuccia Oreste Moricca Oreste Puliti Giulio Sarrocchi + Hungary László Berti János Garay Sándor Pósta József Rády Zoltán Schenker László Széchy Ödön Tersztyanszky Jenö Uhlyarik + Netherlands Adrianus De Jong Jetze Doorman Hendrik Scherpenhuyzen Jan Van Der Wiel Maarten Van Dulm Henri Wyjnoldy-Daniels + Poland Alfred Ader Adam Papée Konrad Winkler Jerzy Zabielski + Spain Julián de Olivares Julio González Fernando Guillén Jesús López de Lara Jaime Mela + United States Laurence Castner Edwin Fullinwider Ernest Gignoux Arthur Lyon Chauncey McPherson Joseph Parker Albert Strauss Harold Van Buskirk + Uruguay Héctor Belo Santos Ferreira Domingo Mendy Pedro Mendy Conrado Rolando
Results
Round 1
The top two teams in each pool advanced. Each team played each other team in its pool, unless a match was unnecessary to determine qualification. Each team match included 16 bouts: four fencers from one team faced four fencers from the other team once apiece. Bouts were to four touches.
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Pool E
Quarterfinals
The top two teams in each pool advanced. Each team played each other team in its pool, unless a match was unnecessary to determine qualification. Each team match included 16 bouts: four fencers from one team faced four fencers from the other team once apiece. Bouts were to four touches.
Pool A
Italy beat Belgium on touches, 50 to 46.
Pool B
Pool C
France beat Czechoslovakia on touches, 49 to 43.
Semifinals
The top two teams in each pool advanced. Each team played each other team in its pool, unless the match was unnecessary to decide qualification. Each team match included 16 bouts: four fencers from one team faced four fencers from the other team once apiece. Bouts were to four touches.
Pool A
Czechoslovakia beat Argentina on touches, 47 to 45.
Pool B
Final
Each team played each other team. Each team match included 16 bouts: four fencers from one team faced four fencers from the other team once apiece. Bouts were to four touches. Italy beat Hungary on touches, 50 to 46, in a match that was the difference in the gold medal standings.
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