The men's team sabre was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1960 Summer Olympics 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. Pool A1. 1-0 (9-3) Q22. 0-1 (3-9) Q2
Pool B1. 2-0 (23-5) Q22. 1-0 (14-14) Q23. 0-2 (7-25)
Pool C1. 1-0 (9-1) Q22. 0-1 (1-9) Q2
Pool D1. 2-0 (18-5) Q22. 1-0 (11-17) Q23. 0-2 (10-17)
Pool E1. 2-0 (19-1) Q22. 1-0 (9-16) Q23. 0-2 (8-19)
Pool F1. 2-0 (25-6) Q22. 1-0 (21-10) Q23. 0-2 (1-31) Championship rounds
Rosters
Argentina Rafael González Juan Larrea Daniel Sande 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 Michael Amberg Sandy Leckie Michael Straus Donald Stringer
Hungary Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Pál Kovács Zoltán Horváth Gábor Delneky Tamás Mendelényi
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 Wojciech Zabłocki Marek Kuszewski Ryszard Zub 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 George Worth Michael D'Asaro, Sr. Alfonso Morales
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