The men's team sabre competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand was held on 18 December 1998 at the Thammasat Gymnasium 4, Thammasat University. The sabre weapon is for thrusting and cutting with both the cutting edge and the back of the blade.
The field of eleven teams with three or four fencers competed in a single-elimination tournament to determine the medal winners. Semifinal losers proceeded to a bronze medal match. Each match features the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with 9 three-minute bouts to 5 points; the winning team is the one that reaches 45 total points first or is leading after the end of the nine bouts.
South Korea (Kim Doo-hong, Ko Young-tae, Lee Hyun-soo and Seo Sung-jun) won the gold medal after beating China (Guo Rong, Liu Yuntao, Yan Weidong and Zhang Lin) in the final 45-44. Iran took the bronze medal by defeating Kazakhstan 45-43 in the 3rd place match.
Schedule All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00) DateTimeEventFriday, 18 December 1998 09:00 Preliminaries 15:00 Finals
Results
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