Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre
| Men's team sabre at the Games of the IV Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Franco-British Exhibition fencing grounds | |||||||||
| Dates | July 24 (final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 35 from 8 nations | |||||||||
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| Épée | men |
| Team épée | men |
| Sabre | men |
| Team sabre | men |
The men's team sabre was one of four fencing events on the Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. The event was won by the Hungarian team, who also took the top two medals in the individual sabre event. Each nation could enter a team of up to 8 fencers, with 4 fencers chosen for each match.[4]
Competition format
The tournament used a variant of the Bergvall system, holding a single elimination bracket for the gold medal with a repechage ending in a match for silver and bronze. Each match featured 4 fencers from one team facing 4 fencers from the other team, for a total of 16 individual bouts. Bouts were to 3 touches.
With 8 teams, the main bracket consisted of quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. Teams defeated by the gold medalist in the main bracket moved to the repechage. With 3 teams in the repechage, a repechage "semifinal" and "final" (which awarded the silver medal to the winner and bronze medal to the loser) were scheduled (Bohemia did not contest the repechage final).
Results
Main bracket
First round
Winners advanced, losers out. The team that was defeated by the eventual champions moved to the repechage.
| Winners | Losers | ||||
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| Nation | Fencers | Bouts lost | Bouts lost | Fencers | Nation |
 Italy |
Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli |
5 | 11 | H. Evan James William Marsh Archibald Murray Charles Wilson |
 Great Britain
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 France |
Georges de la Falaise Bertrand Marie de Lesseps Marc Perrodon Louis Renaud |
6 | 10 | Joseph van der Voodt |
 Belgium
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 Bohemia |
Otakar Lada Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedřich Schejbal |
8 | 9 | Jacob van Löben Sels George van Rossem |
 Netherlands
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 Hungary |
Jenő Fuchs Oszkár Gerde Péter Tóth Lajos Werkner |
0 | 9 |  Germany
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Semifinals
Winners advanced to play for the gold medal, loser to eventual champion was sent to repechage.
| Winners | Losers | ||||
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| Nation | Fencers | Bouts lost | Bouts lost | Fencers | Nation |
| Bohemia |
Otakar Lada Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedřich Schejbal |
7 | 9 | Georges de la Falaise Bertrand Marie de Lesseps Marc Perrodon Louis Renaud |
France
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| Hungary |
Dezső Földes Jenő Fuchs Oszkár Gerde Péter Tóth |
5 | 11 | Marcelo Bertinetti Sante Ceccherini Abelardo Olivier Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli |
Italy
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Final
The winner received the gold medal, while the loser had to play the winner of the repechage in the silver medal match.
| Winners | Losers | ||||
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| Nation | Fencers | Bouts lost | Bouts lost | Fencers | Nation |
| Hungary |
Jenő Fuchs Oszkár Gerde Péter Tóth Lajos Werkner |
7 | 9 | Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedřich Schejbal Jaroslav Šourek-Tucek |
Bohemia
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Repechage
Germany and Italy had been defeated by Hungary, the winner of the final, in the first two rounds. The two teams faced each other for the right to advance to the silver medal match against the loser of the final.
Round 1
| Winners | Losers | ||||
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| Nation | Fencers | Bouts lost | Bouts lost | Fencers | Nation |
| Italy |
Marcelo Bertinetti Riccardo Nowak Abelardo Olivier Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli |
4 | 10 | Jakob Erkrath de Bary Fritz Jack Robert Krünert August Petri |
Germany
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Silver medal match
The winner took the silver medal, with loser receiving bronze. The Bohemian team refused to play the match, arguing that as finalists they had already secured second place. The organizing committee awarded silver medals to Italy, relegating the Bohemian team to bronze medals.
| Winners | Losers | ||||
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| Nation | Fencers | Hits against | Hits against | Fencers | Nation |
| Italy |
No match; Bohemia did not start | Bohemia
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Notes
- ^ Dezső Földes competed in the semifinal for Hungary, but is not awarded a gold medal by the IOC.
- ^ Sante Ceccherini fenced for Italy in the first round and semifinals, but is not considered to be a silver medallist by the IOC.
- ^ Otakar Lada also competed for Bohemia in the first round and semifinal, but is not listed as a bronze medallist by the IOC.
- ^ Official Report, p. 34.
Sources
- Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
- De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Fencing 1908". Accessed 1 May 2006. Available electronically at [1] Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
