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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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gu Bon-gil
Won Woo-young
Kim Jung-hwan
Oh Eun-seok
 South Korea
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Rareș Dumitrescu
Tiberiu Dolniceanu
Florin Zalomir
Alexandru Sirițeanu
 Romania
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Diego Occhuizzi
Aldo Montano
Luigi Samele
Luigi Tarantino
 Italy
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Fencing at the
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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 Placement 5–6
      
8  United States 28
5  China 45
5  China 30
3  Germany 45
3  Germany 45
2  Belarus 40 Placement 7–8
8  United States 35
2  Belarus 45

Final classification

Rank Team Athlete
1st place, gold medalist(s)  South Korea Gu Bon-gil
Kim Jung-hwan
Won Woo-young
Oh Eun-seok
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Romania Tiberiu Dolniceanu
Rareș Dumitrescu
Florin Zalomir
Alexandru Sirițeanu
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Italy Aldo Montano
Diego Occhiuzzi
Luigi Tarantino
Luigi Samele
4  Russia Nikolay Kovalev
Veniamin Reshetnikov
Aleksey Yakimenko
5  Germany Max Hartung
Nicolas Limbach
Benedikt Wagner
Björn Hübner
6  China Liu Xiao
Wang Jingzhi
Zhong Man
Jiang Kelü
7  Belarus Aliaksandr Buikevich
Dmitry Lapkes
Valery Pryiemka
Aliaksei Likhacheuski
8  United States Daryl Homer
Tim Morehouse
James Leighman Williams
Jeff Spear

References

Olympic fencing champions in men's Team Sabre
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