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Foil, Team, Men

Date15 – 17 August 1920
StatusOlympic
LocationRoyal Beerschot Tennis & Hockey Club, Antwerpen / Floraliën, Middelheimpark, Antwerpen
Participants49 from 8 countries

Each nation was allowed one team entry of four starting competitors, plus four substitutes. Bouts were for three touches. The format was two rounds of pools. In the first round, Pool Two had only three teams because the fourth team, from Spain, did not show up. In the USA-GBR team match in the finals, both teams ended up with eight bout victories, but USA was declared the winner by a touch count of 33-31.

The Italian foil team was led by the Nadi brothers, Aldo and Nedo, and won the gold medal quite easily. Italy won all eight of its matches. Its only close match in the final was against France, which it defeated 9-7. At the 1919 Inter-Allied Championships, the result was reversed, with France defeating Italy in the final on touches 127-125, after they had tied in bouts at 18 each.

PosCompetitorsNOC
1ItalyITAGold
Tommaso Costantino • Aldo Nadi • Nedo Nadi • Abelardo Olivier • Oreste Puliti • Pietro Speciale • Rodolfo Terlizzi • Baldo Baldi
2FranceFRASilver
Lionel, Marquis de Castellane-Majastres • Gaston Amson • Philippe Cattiau • Roger Ducret • André Labatut • Georges Trombert • Lucien Gaudin • Marcel Perrot
3United StatesUSABronze
Henry Breckinridge • Francis Honeycutt • Arthur Lyon • Harold Rayner • Robert Sears
4DenmarkDEN
Ivan Osiier • Georg Hegner • Ejnar Levison • Poul Rasmussen • Kay Schrøder
5Great BritainGBR
Edgar Seligman • Roland Willoughby • Geoffrey Doyne • Robert Montgomerie • Evan James • Cecil Kershaw
=6BelgiumBEL
Léon Tom • Robert Hennet • Louis Cuypers • Fernand de Montigny • Émile De Schepper • Charles Crahay • Marcel Berré • Albert Pape
=6NetherlandsNED
Wouter Brouwer • Félix Vigeveno • Salomon Zeldenrust • Arie de Jong • Jan van der Wiel
=6CzechoslovakiaTCH
Josef Javůrek • Antony Mikala • Vilém Tvrzský • František Dvořák

Round One

Date15 August 1920 — 09:00

Pool #1

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1ItalyITA4-039-19Q
Baldo Baldi • Tommaso Costantino • Aldo Nadi • Nedo Nadi • Abelardo Olivier • Oreste Puliti • Pietro Speciale • Rodolfo Terlizzi
2DenmarkDEN3-132-28Q
Ivan Osiier • Ejnar Levison • Poul Rasmussen • Kay Schrøder
3Great BritainGBR2-231-33Q
Edgar Seligman • Roland Willoughby • Geoffrey Doyne • Robert Montgomerie • Cecil Kershaw
4BelgiumBEL1-321-27
Léon Tom • Robert Hennet • Louis Cuypers • Fernand de Montigny • Émile De Schepper • Charles Crahay • Marcel Berré • Albert Pape
5CzechoslovakiaTCH0-411-27
Josef Javůrek • Antony Mikala • Vilém Tvrzský • František Dvořák
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #115 AugGreat BritainGBR9 – 7CzechoslovakiaTCH
Match #215 AugGreat BritainGBR9 – 7BelgiumBEL
Match #315 AugDenmarkDEN10 – 6Great BritainGBR
Match #415 AugItalyITA9 – 7Great BritainGBR
Match #515 AugItalyITA9 – 7BelgiumBEL
Match #615 AugDenmarkDEN9 – 7BelgiumBEL
Match #715 AugItalyITA12 – 4DenmarkDEN
Match #815 AugItalyITA9 – 1CzechoslovakiaTCH
Match #915 AugDenmarkDEN9 – 3CzechoslovakiaTCH
Match #1015 AugBelgiumBELNot supportedCzechoslovakiaTCHwalkover

Pool #2

PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1FranceFRA1-011-3Q
Lionel, Marquis de Castellane-Majastres • André Labatut • Lucien Gaudin • Marcel Perrot
2United StatesUSA1-010-6Q
Henry Breckinridge • Francis Honeycutt • Arthur Lyon • Harold Rayner
3NetherlandsNED0-29-21
Wouter Brouwer • Félix Vigeveno • Salomon Zeldenrust • Arie de Jong • Jan van der Wiel
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #115 AugFranceFRA11 – 3NetherlandsNED
Match #215 AugUnited StatesUSA10 – 6NetherlandsNED

Final Pool

Date17 August 1920 — 09:00
PosCompetitorsNOCBoutsTouches
1ItalyITA4-050-14
Tommaso Costantino • Aldo Nadi • Nedo Nadi • Abelardo Olivier • Oreste Puliti • Pietro Speciale • Rodolfo Terlizzi
2FranceFRA3-145-17
Lionel, Marquis de Castellane-Majastres • Gaston Amson • Philippe Cattiau • Roger Ducret • André Labatut • Georges Trombert • Lucien Gaudin
3United StatesUSA2-222-42
Henry Breckinridge • Francis Honeycutt • Arthur Lyon • Harold Rayner • Robert Sears
4DenmarkDEN1-324-38
Ivan Osiier • Ejnar Levison • Poul Rasmussen • Kay Schrøder
5Great BritainGBR0-417-47
Edgar Seligman • Roland Willoughby • Geoffrey Doyne • Robert Montgomerie • Evan James • Cecil Kershaw
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #117 AugItalyITA9 – 7FranceFRA
Match #217 AugItalyITA16 – 0Great BritainGBR
Match #317 AugItalyITA12 – 4DenmarkDEN
Match #417 AugItalyITA13 – 3United StatesUSA
Match #517 AugFranceFRA14 – 2Great BritainGBR
Match #617 AugFranceFRA14 – 2United StatesUSA
Match #717 AugFranceFRA10 – 4DenmarkDEN
Match #817 AugUnited StatesUSA9 – 7DenmarkDEN
Match #917 AugUnited StatesUSA8 – 8Great BritainGBR
Match #1017 AugDenmarkDEN9 – 7Great BritainGBR