Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

Fencing at the Olympics

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.

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).

Winners advanced, losers out. The team that was defeated by the eventual champions moved to the repechage. Winners Losers Nation Fencers Bouts lost Bouts lost Fencers Nation Marcello Bertinetti Sante Ceccherini Abelardo Olivier Alessandro Pirzio Biroli 5 11 H. Evan James William Marsh Archibald Murray Charles Wilson Georges de la Falaise Bertrand Marie de Lesseps Marc Perrodon Louis Renaud 6 10 André du Bosch Etienne Grade Antoine van Tomme Joseph van der Voodt Otakar Lada Vlastimil Lada Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedřich Schejbal 8 9 Jetze Doorman Adrianus de Jong Jacob van Löben Sels George van Rossem Jenő Fuchs Oszkár Gerde Péter Tóth Lajos Werkner 0 9 Jakob Erkrath de Bary Fritz Jack Robert Krünert August Petri

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.