Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

Men's team sabre
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Medal winners on the podium
VenueExCeL Exhibition Centre
Date3 August
Competitors31 from 8 nations
Medalists
   South Korea
   Romania
   Italy
Fencing at the
2012 Summer Olympics

Épée   men   women
Team épée women
Foil men women
Team foil men women
Sabre men women
Team sabre men

The men's team sabre competition in fencing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 3 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.

Competition format

This team event featured eight national teams. Great Britain, as hosts were allowed to enter a team in any event they chose, however they chose not to enter this event. First round losers continued fencing to determine ranking spots for fifth through eighth, while the quarter-final winners met in the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-final bouts competed for the gold medal, while the losing teams competed for the bronze.

Team events competed to a maximum of 45 touches.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date Time Round
Friday, 3 August 2012 09:00 Qualifications and finals

Draw

Finals

  Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
1   Russia 45
8   United States 33
1   Russia 43
4   Romania 45
5   China 30
4   Romania 45
4   Romania 26
6   South Korea 45
3   Germany 38
6   South Korea 45
6   South Korea 45 Third place
7   Italy 37
7   Italy 45 1   Russia 40
2   Belarus 44 7   Italy 45

Classification 5–8

  Placement 5–8            
  8   United States 28  
  5   China 45   Placement 5–6
      5   China 30
  Placement 5–8   3   Germany 45
  3   Germany 45
  2   Belarus 40   Placement 7–8
    8   United States 35
    2   Belarus 45

Final classification

RankTeamAthlete
1st, gold medalist(s) South KoreaGu Bon-gil
Kim Jung-hwan
Won Woo-young
Oh Eun-seok
2nd, silver medalist(s) RomaniaTiberiu Dolniceanu
Rareș Dumitrescu
Florin Zalomir
Alexandru Sirițeanu
3rd, bronze medalist(s) ItalyAldo Montano
Diego Occhiuzzi
Luigi Tarantino
Luigi Samele
4 RussiaNikolay Kovalev
Veniamin Reshetnikov
Aleksey Yakimenko
5 GermanyMax Hartung
Nicolas Limbach
Benedikt Wagner
Björn Hübner
6 ChinaLiu Xiao
Wang Jingzhi
Zhong Man
Jiang Kelü
7 BelarusAliaksandr Buikevich
Dmitry Lapkes
Valery Pryiemka
Aliaksei Likhacheuski
8 United StatesDaryl Homer
Tim Morehouse
James Leighman Williams
Jeff Spear

References

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