Fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

The men's team sabre was one of seven fencing events on the fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics programme. It was the eighth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 10 August 1948 to 11 August 1948. 85 fencers from 17 nations competed.

The competition format continued the pool play round-robin from prior years. Each of the four fencers from one team would face each of the four from the other, for a total of 16 bouts per match. The team that won more bouts won the match, with competition potentially stopping when one team reached 9 points out of the possible 16 (this did not always occur and matches sometimes continued). If the bouts were 8–8, touches received was used to determine the winning team. Pool matches unnecessary to the result were not played.

Rosters

 * Argentina
 * Manuel Agüero
 * José D'Andrea
 * Edgardo Pomini
 * Jorge Cermesoni
 * Fernando Huergo
 * Daniel Sande


 * Austria
 * Werner Plattner
 * Heinz Putzl
 * Heinz Lechner
 * Hubert Loisel


 * Belgium
 * Robert Bayot
 * Georges de Bourguignon
 * Ferdinand Jassogne
 * Eugène Laermans
 * Marcel Nys
 * Édouard Yves


 * Canada
 * Robert Desjarlais
 * Alf Horn
 * Roland Asselin
 * Georges Pouliot


 * Czechoslovakia
 * Jindřich Kakos
 * Svatopluk Skýva
 * Jaroslav Starý
 * Alois Sokol
 * Jindřich Chmela


 * Egypt
 * Salah Dessouki
 * Mohamed Zulficar
 * Mahmoud Younes
 * Ahmed Abou-Shadi


 * France
 * Jean-François Tournon
 * Jean Parent
 * Maurice Gramain
 * Jacques Lefèvre
 * Jean Levavasseur
 * Georges Lévêcque


 * Great Britain
 * Arthur Pilbrow
 * George Moore
 * Emrys Lloyd
 * Roger Tredgold
 * Robin Brook


 * Greece
 * Nikolaos Khristogiannopoulos
 * Athanasios Nanopoulos
 * Ioannis Karamazakis
 * Andreas Skotidas


 * Hungary
 * Aladár Gerevich
 * Tibor Berczelly
 * Rudolf Kárpáti
 * Pál Kovács
 * László Rajcsányi
 * Bertalan Papp


 * Italy
 * Vincenzo Pinton
 * Gastone Darè
 * Carlo Turcato
 * Mauro Racca
 * Aldo Montano
 * Renzo Nostini


 * Mexico
 * Benito Ramos
 * Francisco Valero
 * Antonio Haro
 * Fidel Luña


 * Netherlands
 * Henny ter Weer
 * Antoon Hoevers
 * Willem van den Berg
 * Frans Mosman
 * Eddy Kuijpers


 * Poland
 * Antoni Sobik
 * Bolesław Banaś
 * Teodor Zaczyk
 * Jerzy Wójcik
 * Jan Nawrocki


 * Switzerland
 * Roland Turian
 * Alphonse Ruckstuhl
 * Otto Greter
 * Walter Widemann


 * Turkey
 * Merih Sezen
 * Nihat Balkan
 * Rıza Arseven
 * Sabri Tezcan
 * Vural Balcan


 * United States
 * Norman Cohn-Armitage
 * George Worth
 * Tibor Nyilas
 * Dean Cetrulo
 * Miguel de Capriles
 * James Flynn

Round 1
The top two teams in each pool advanced to round 2.

Pool 1
Egypt (13–3) and Czechoslovakia (9–2) each defeated Mexico.

Pool 2
Austria (14–2) and France (9–1) each defeated Switzerland.

Pool 3
Poland (11–5) and Belgium (9–2) each defeated Turkey.

Pool 4
The Netherlands (13–3) and Italy (9–1) each defeated Canada.

Pool 5
The United States (14–2) and Argentina (9–1) each defeated Greece.

Pool 6
Denmark withdrew, leaving Great Britain and Hungary to advance unopposed.

Round 2
The top two teams in each pool advanced to the semifinals.

Pool 1
Belgium (13–3) and Hungary (9–3) each defeated Egypt.

Pool 2
The United States (11–5) and Italy (9–4) each defeated Great Britain.

Pool 3
Argentina beat the Netherlands 9–7, the Netherlands beat Czechoslovakia 10–6, and Argentina defeated Czechoslovakia 9–7.

Pool 4
France (10–6) and Poland (8–8, 55–59 touches against) each defeated Austria.

Semifinals
The top two teams in each pool advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1
Hungary beat Argentina 15–1, Belgium defeated Poland 9–7, Belgium defeated Argentina 9–4, and Hungary beat Poland 12–3.

Semifinal 2
Italy beat the Netherlands 13–3, the United States defeated France 11–5, the United States defeated the Netherlands 9–2, and Italy beat France 9–5.

Final
In the first pairings, Italy defeated Belgium and Hungary beat the United States, each by a score of 10–6. Hungary (9–1 over Belgium) and Italy (8–8 over the United States, prevailing by touches received 59–61) won again in the second set of matches as well. The United States beat Belgium 10–5 in a de facto bronze medal match, while Hungary prevailed 10–6 over Italy for the gold medal.