Catawba – Rhododendron catawbiense

The men's team sabre was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1976 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifteenth appearance of the event. The competition was held from July 26 to 27, 1976. 63 fencers from 14 nations competed.^[1]

Rosters

Argentina
Marcelo Méndez Juan Gavajda Fernando Lupiz José María Casanovas

Bulgaria
Miroslav Dudekov Anani Mikhaylov Konstantin Dzhelepov Khristo Khristov

Canada
Marc Lavoie Peter Urban Imre Nagy Eli Sukunda

Cuba
Manuel Ortiz Francisco de la Torre Guzman Salazar Ramón Hernández Lazaro Mora

France
Philippe Bena Régis Bonissent Bernard Dumont Didier Flament Patrick Quivrin

Great Britain
Bill Hoskyns Peter Mather John Deanfield Richard Cohen

Hungary
Péter Marót Tamás Kovács Imre Gedővári Ferenc Hammang Csaba Körmöczi

Iran
Abdul Hamid Fathi Ahmed Eskandarpour Ahmed Akbari Ismail Pashapour-Alamdari

Italy
Mario Aldo Montano Mario Tullio Montano Michele Maffei Tommaso Montano Angelo Arcidiacono

Poland
Leszek Jabłonowski Sylwester Królikowski Jacek Bierkowski Józef Nowara

Romania
Dan Irimiciuc Ioan Pop Marin Mustață Cornel Marin Alexandru Nilca

Soviet Union
Viktor Sidyak Vladimir Nazlymov Viktor Krovopuskov Mikhail Burtsev Eduard Vinokurov

Thailand
Taweewat Hurapan Samachai Trangjaroenngarm Sutipong Santitevagul Royengyot Srivorapongpant

United States
Paul Apostol Peter Westbrook Stephen Kaplan Thomas Losonczy Alex Orban

Results

Round 1

Round 1 Pool A

France and the Soviet Union each defeated Bulgaria, 11–5. The two victors then faced off. The Soviet Union won 9–1.

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.	URS	FRA	BUL
1	Soviet Union	2	0	20	6	QQ		9–1	11–5
2	France	1	1	12	14	QQ	1–9		11–5
3	Bulgaria	0	2	10	22		5–11	5–11

Source: Official Report, vol. 3, p. 255

Round 1 Pool B

The United States and Italy each defeated Canada, 9–7 and 13–3, respectively. The two victors then faced off. Italy won 9–3.

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.	ITA	USA	CAN
1	Italy	2	0	22	6	QQ		9–3	13–3
2	United States	1	1	12	16	QQ	3–9		9–7
3	Canada	0	2	10	22		3–13	7–9

Source: Official Report, vol. 3, p. 255

Round 1 Pool C

The first two rounds of matches left Romania and Cuba at 2–0 apiece (advancing to the knockout rounds) and Great Britain and Thailand at 0–2 each (eliminating them). Romania defeated Cuba 9–3 to take the top spot in the group. Great Britain and Thailand did not face each other.

Pos	Team	W	L	BW	BL	Qual.	ROU	CUB	GBR	THA
1	Romania	3	0	39	5	QQ		9–3	14–2	16–0
2	Cuba	2	1	29	15	QQ	3–9		11–5	15–1
3	Great Britain	0	2	7	25		2–14	5–11
4	Thailand	0	2	1	31		0–16	1–15

Source: Official Report, vol. 3, p. 256

Round 1 Pool D

The first two rounds of matches left Hungary and Poland at 2–0 apiece (advancing to the knockout rounds) and Argentina and Iran at 0–2 each (eliminating them). Hungary defeated Poland 8–6 (with a 58–46 touches advantage making the final two bouts unnecessary) to take the top spot in the group. Argentina defeated Iran 9–4 for third place.