# 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.

## Results
### 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.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | Egypt | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | Q |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | Q |
| 3 | Mexico | 0 | 2 | 5 | 22 | |

#### Pool 2

Austria (14–2) and France (9–1) each defeated Switzerland.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | Austria | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | Q |
| 2 | France | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | Q |
| 3 | Switzerland | 0 | 2 | 3 | 23 | |

#### Pool 3

Poland (11–5) and Belgium (9–2) each defeated Turkey.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | Q |
| 2 | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | Q |
| 3 | Turkey | 0 | 2 | 7 | 20 | |

#### Pool 4

The Netherlands (13–3) and Italy (9–1) each defeated Canada.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | Q |
| 2 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | Q |
| 3 | Canada | 0 | 2 | 4 | 22 | |

#### Pool 5

The United States (14–2) and Argentina (9–1) each defeated Greece.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | United States | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | Q |
| 2 | Argentina | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | Q |
| 3 | Greece | 0 | 2 | 3 | 23 | |

#### Pool 6

Denmark withdrew, leaving Great Britain and Hungary to advance unopposed.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Q |
| 1 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Q |
| 3 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew |

### 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.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | Q |
| 2 | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | Q |
| 3 | Egypt | 0 | 2 | 6 | 22 | |

#### Pool 2

The United States (11–5) and Italy (9–4) each defeated Great Britain.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | United States | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | Q |
| 2 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | Q |
| 3 | Great Britain | 0 | 2 | 9 | 20 | |

#### Pool 3

Argentina beat the Netherlands 9–7, the Netherlands beat Czechoslovakia 10–6, and Argentina defeated Czechoslovakia 9–7.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | Argentina | 2 | 0 | 18 | 14 | Q |
| 2 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 17 | 15 | Q |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 2 | 13 | 19 | |

#### Pool 4

France (10–6) and Poland (8–8, 55–59 touches against) each defeated Austria.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | France | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6 | Q |
| 2 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | Q |
| 3 | Austria | 0 | 2 | 14 | 18 | |

### 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.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | Hungary | 2 | 0 | 27 | 4 | Q |
| 2 | Belgium | 2 | 0 | 18 | 11 | Q |
| 3 | Poland | 0 | 2 | 10 | 21 | |
| 4 | Argentina | 0 | 2 | 5 | 24 | |

#### 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.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL | Notes |
| 1 | Italy | 2 | 0 | 22 | 8 | Q |
| 2 | United States | 2 | 0 | 20 | 7 | Q |
| 3 | France | 0 | 2 | 10 | 20 | |
| 4 | Netherlands | 0 | 2 | 5 | 22 | |

### 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.
| Rank | Nation | MW | ML | BW | BL |
| | Hungary | 3 | 0 | 29 | 13 |
| | Italy | 2 | 1 | 24 | 24 |
| | United States | 1 | 2 | 24 | 23 |
| 4 | Belgium | 0 | 3 | 12 | 29 |