Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

Men's team sabre at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Waseda Memorial Hall
Dates	October 22 – 23
Competitors	61 from 13 nations
Medalists
Umyar Mavlikhanov, Mark Rakita, Yakov Rylsky, Boris Melnikov, Nugzar Asatiani  Soviet Union Wladimiro Calarese, Giampaolo Calanchini, Pierluigi Chicca, Mario Ravagnan, Cesare Salvadori  Italy Jerzy Pawłowski, Ryszard Zub, Andrzej Piątkowski, Emil Ochyra, Wojciech Zabłocki  Poland

The men's team sabre was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twelfth appearance of the event. The competition was held from October 22 – 23 1964. 61 fencers from 13 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Soviet Union (URS)	Italy (ITA)	Poland (POL)

Results

Round 1

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

Pool A
1.	Soviet Union (URS)	1-0 (12)	Q2
2.	United States (USA)	1-0 (9)	Q2
3.	Japan (JPN)	0-2 (6)

Pool B
1.	France (FRA)	2-0 (23)	Q2
2.	Romania (ROU)	2-0 (19)	Q2
3.	Great Britain (GBR)	0-2 (8)
4.	Australia (AUS)	0-2 (5)

Pool C
1.	Italy (ITA)	1-0 (15)	Q2
2.	Hungary (HUN)	1-0 (9)	Q2
3.	Argentina (ARG)	0-2 (3)

Pool D
1.	Poland (POL)	2-0 (16)	Q2
2.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	2-0 (9)	Q2
3.	Iran (IRI)	0-2 (3)

Championship rounds

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Poland (POL)	9
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	6
					Poland (POL)	7
					Soviet Union (URS)	9
	Soviet Union (URS)	9
	United States (USA)	4
									Soviet Union (URS)	9
									Italy (ITA)	6
	France (FRA)	8
	Romania (ROU)	6
					France (FRA)	7
					Italy (ITA)	8			Third place
	Italy (ITA)	9
	Hungary (HUN)	7
									Poland (POL)	8
									France (FRA)	8

Fifth place semifinal

	Fifth place semifinals				Fifth place match
	Romania (ROU)	0
	Hungary (HUN)	9
					Hungary (HUN)	9
					United Team of Germany (EUA)	3
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	9
	United States (USA)	5

Rosters

Argentina

• Rafael González
• Juan Carlos Frecia
• Julian Velásquez
• Alberto Lanteri

Australia

• Alexander Martonffy
• Les Tornallyay
• Paul Rizzuto
• Brian McCowage
• Henry Sommerville

France

• Jean-Ernest Ramez
• Jacques Lefèvre
• Claude Arabo
• Marcel Parent
• Robert Fraisse

Germany

• Dieter Wellmann
• Klaus Allisat
• Walter Köstner
• Jürgen Theuerkauff
• Percy Borucki

Great Britain

• Richard Oldcorn
• Sandy Leckie
• Ralph Cooperman
• Michael Howard
• Bill Hoskyns

Hungary

• Péter Bakonyi
• Miklós Meszéna
• Attila Kovács
• Zoltán Horváth
• Tibor Pézsa

Iran

• Houshmand Almasi
• Bizhan Zarnegar
• Shahpour Zarnegar
• Nasser Madani

Italy

• Wladimiro Calarese
• Giampaolo Calanchini
• Pierluigi Chicca
• Mario Ravagnan
• Cesare Salvadori

Japan

• Fujio Shimizu
• Teruhiro Kitao
• Seiji Shibata
• Mitsuyuki Funamizu

Poland

• Jerzy Pawłowski
• Ryszard Zub
• Andrzej Piątkowski
• Emil Ochyra
• Wojciech Zabłocki

Romania

• Attila Csipler
• Octavian Vintilă
• Tănase Mureșanu
• Ion Drîmbă

Soviet Union

• Umyar Mavlikhanov
• Mark Rakita
• Yakov Rylsky
• Boris Melnikov
• Nugzar Asatiani

United States

• Alfonso Morales
• Robert Blum
• Gene Hámori
• Attila Keresztes
• Thomas Orley

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.