Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

Men's team sabre
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Men's team sabre; at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
	Olympic fencing
Venue	Makuhari Messe
Date	28 July 2021
Competitors	36 from 9 nations
Medalists
	← 2012 2024 →

The men's team sabre event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 28 July 2021 at the Makuhari Messe,^[1] with 27 fencers (9 teams of 3) from 9 nations competing.^[2]

Background

Officially the 25th appearance of the event, it has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1908 except 2016 (during the time when team events were rotated off the schedule, with only two of the three weapons for each of the men's and women's categories).

The reigning (2012) Olympic champion is South Korea (Gu Bon-gil, Won Woo-young, Kim Jung-hwan, and Oh Eun-seok). South Korea has also won the last three World Championships in the event, with the 2019 (reigning) team consisting of Gu, Kim Jun-ho, Oh Sang-uk and Ha Han-sol. A preview from Olympics.com identified Hungary as a historically strong nation in the event looking to continue its success, led by 2012 and 2016 individual gold medalist Áron Szilágyi.^[3] Szilágyi in the meanwhile also won the 2020 gold medal in individual sabre competition.

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a team of 3 fencers in the men's team sabre. These fencers also automatically qualified for the individual event.^[2]

There are 8 dedicated quota spots for men's team sabre. They are allocated as through the world team ranking list of 5 April 2021. The top 4 spots, regardless of geographic zone, qualify (South Korea, Hungary, Italy, and Germany). The next four spots are allocated to separate geographic zones, as long as an NOC from that zone is in the top 16. These places went to Iran (Asia/Oceania), the United States (Americas), Egypt (Africa), and ROC (Europe).^[2]

Additionally, there are 8 host/invitational spots that can be spread throughout the various fencing events.^[2] Japan qualified one men's sabre fencer through normal individual qualification and used two host quota places to complete a men's sabre team.

The COVID-19 pandemic delayed many of the events for qualifying for fencing, moving the close of the rankings period back to April 5, 2021 rather than the original April 4, 2020.^[2]^[4]

Competition format

The 2020 tournament is a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. 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. Standard sabre rules regarding target area, striking, and priority are used.^[5]^[6]

Schedule

The competition is held over a single day, Wednesday, 28 July. The first session runs from 10 a.m. to approximately 3:20 p.m. (when all matches except the bronze and gold medal finals are expected to conclude), after which there is a break until 6:30 p.m. before the medal bouts are held.^[1]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday, 28 July 2021	10:00 18:30	Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Classification 7/8 Classification 5/6 Bronze medal match Gold medal match

Results

Round of 16		Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final






		South Korea	45

		Egypt	39
Japan	32

Egypt	45
				South Korea	45

				Germany	42



		ROC	28

		Germany	45



						South Korea	45

						Italy	26



		Italy	45

		Iran	44



				Italy	45

				Hungary	43	Bronze medal bout



		United States	36			Germany	40

		Hungary	45			Hungary	45

5–8th place classification

5–8th place semifinals		Fifth place bout



Egypt	45

ROC	41
		Egypt	45

		Iran	24
Iran	45

United States	36
		Seventh place bout



		ROC	WO

		United States

Final classification

Rank	Team	Athlete
	South Korea	Oh Sang-uk Kim Jun-ho Kim Jung-hwan Gu Bon-gil
	Italy	Luca Curatoli Luigi Samele Enrico Berrè Aldo Montano
	Hungary	Áron Szilágyi András Szatmári Tamás Decsi Csanád Gémesi
4	Germany	Max Hartung Benedikt Wagner Richard Hübers Matyas Szabo
5	Egypt	Mohamed Amer Ziad El-Sissy Medhat Moataz Mohab Samer
6	Iran	Mojtaba Abedini Mohammad Fotouhi Ali Pakdaman Mohammad Rahbari
7	ROC	Dmitriy Danilenko Kamil Ibragimov Konstantin Lokhanov Veniamin Reshetnikov
8	United States	Eli Dershwitz Daryl Homer Andrew Mackiewicz Khalil Thompson
9	Japan	Tomohiro Shimamura Kaito Streets Kenta Tokunan Kento Yoshida

References

^ ^a ^b "Fencing Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Fencing" (PDF). Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
^ "Everything you need to know about Olympic fencing at Tokyo 2020". Tokyo 2020. 20 March 2021. Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
^ Academy of Fencing Masters
^ NBC
^ "Fencing". Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

External links

Draw Archived 28 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine

[Dates-1] "Fencing Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[Qualifying-2] "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Fencing" (PDF). Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.

[Tokyo2020Preview-3] "Everything you need to know about Olympic fencing at Tokyo 2020". Tokyo 2020. 20 March 2021. Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

[Academy-4] Academy of Fencing Masters

[NBC-5] NBC

[Tokyo2020Summary-6] "Fencing". Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

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