Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

Men's team sabre at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Green Convention Centre
Date	17 August 2008
Competitors	25 from 8 nations
Medalists
Nicolas Lopez Julien Pillet Boris Sanson   France   Tim Morehouse Jason Rogers Keeth Smart James Williams   United States   Aldo Montano Diego Occhiuzzi Giampiero Pastore Luigi Tarantino   Italy

Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Épée		men		women
Team épée		men
Foil		men		women
Team foil				women
Sabre		men		women
Team sabre		men		women

The men's team sabre fencing competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing took place on August 17 at the Olympic Green Convention Centre.

The team sabre competition consisted of a three-round single-elimination bracket with a bronze medal match between the two semifinal losers and classification semifinals and finals for 5th to 8th places. Teams consist of three members each. Matches consist of nine bouts, with every fencer on one team facing each fencer on the other team. Scoring carried over between bouts with a total of 45 touches being the team goal. Bouts lasted until one team reached the target multiple of 5 touches. For example, if the first bout ended with a score of 5-3, that score would remain into the next bout and the second bout would last until one team reached 10 touches. Bouts also had a maximum time of three minutes each; if the final bout ended before either team reached 45 touches, the team leading at that point won. A tie at that point would result in an additional one-minute sudden-death time period. This sudden-death period was further modified by the selection of a draw-winner beforehand; if neither fencer scored a touch during the minute, the predetermined draw-winner won the bout.

Draw

Finals

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1	France	45
	8	Egypt	31
						1	France	45
						4	Italy	41
	5	Belarus	39
	4	Italy	45
											1	France	45
											7	United States	37
	3	Russia	45
	6	China	36
						3	Russia	44		Third place
						7	United States	45
	7	United States	45								4	Italy	45
	2	Hungary	44								3	Russia	44

Classification 5- 8

	Placement 5-8
	8	Egypt	22
	5	Belarus	45			Placement 5-6
						5	Belarus	45
	Placement 5-8				6	China	39
	6	China	45
	2	Hungary	38			Placement 7-8
						8	Egypt	25
						2	Hungary	45

Final classification

Rank	Team	Athlete
01 !	France	Julien Pillet Boris Sanson Nicolas Lopez
02 !	United States	Tim Morehouse Jason Rogers Keeth Smart James Williams
03 !	Italy	Aldo Montano Luigi Tarantino Giampiero Pastore Diego Occhiuzzi
4	Russia	Nikolay Kovalev Stanislav Pozdnyakov Aleksey Yakimenko
5	Belarus	Aliaksandr Buikevich Valery Pryiemka Dmitri Lapkes
6	China	Huang Yaojiang Zhou Hanming Wang Jingzhi Zhong Man
7	Hungary	Balázs Lontay Zsolt Nemcsik Áron Szilágyi Tamás Decsi
8	Egypt	Mahmoud Samir Gamal Fathy Shadi Talaat Tamim Ghazy

References

• Competition format