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Foil, Team, Men

Date1 – 2 September 1972
StatusOlympic
LocationFechthalle 1, Messegelände (Halle 11 & 12), München / Fechthalle 2, Messegelände (Halle 20), München
Participants63 from 13 countries

Poland had first won a medal in team foil back at the 1961 World Championships. They were regular visitors to the medal podium for the rest of the decade but a global title had always eluded them.

The competition did not start well for the Poles as they suffered a defeat to the host nation in their first match. Poland recovered to beat Italy and Japan and then won a close fought semi-final victory against the Hungarians. The other semi-final was a meeting of the two most recent World Champion teams which saw the USSR earn the right to face Poland via a 9-6 over France.

Three days earlier Witold Woyda had won the individual foil title. In the team final he took that form forward and won all four of his bouts. Woyda was backed up by Lech Koziejowski and Poland finally made their championship breakthrough as they saw off the Soviet challenge by 9 bouts to 6.

After a decade of major title frustration Woyda had now won his second Olympic title in three days.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1PolandPOLGold
Witold WoydaLech KoziejowskiJerzy KaczmarekMarek DąbrowskiArkadiusz Godel
2Soviet UnionURSSilver
Vasily StankovichViktor PutyatinAnatoly KoteshevVladimir DenisovLeonid Romanov
3FranceFRABronze
Jean-Claude MagnanDaniel RevenuChristian NoëlGilles BerolattiBernard Talvard
4HungaryHUN
Sándor SzabóCsaba FenyvesiLászló KamutiIstván MartonJenő Kamuti
5West GermanyFRG
Klaus ReichertFritz WesselHarald HeinDieter WellmannErk Sens-Gorius
6JapanJPN
Shiro MaruyamaMasaya FukudaHiroshi NakajimaKiyoshi UeharaIchiro Serizawa
=7CubaCUB
Evelio GonzálezEduardo JhonsJesús GilEnrique SalvatJorge Garbey
=7RomaniaROU
Iuliu FalbȘtefan HauklerMihai ȚiuTănase MureșanuAurel Ștefan
9Great BritainGBR
Mike BreckinBarry PaulGraham PaulTony PowerIan Single
10LebanonLBN
Ali ChekrYves Daniel DarricauFawzi MerhiAli Sleiman
11ItalyITA
Alfredo Del FranciaNicola GranieriCarlo MontanoArcangelo PinelliStefano Simoncelli
12United StatesUSA
Carl BorackMartin DavisJoseph FreemanJohn NonnaTyrone Simmons
13CanadaCAN
Magdy ConydHerbert ObstGerry WiedelLester WongBob Foxcroft (DNS)
DNSArgentinaARG
Daniel FeraudFernando LúpizGuillermo SaucedoOmar Vergara

Round One (1 September 1972 — 8:00)

Top eight teams, based on percentage of wins/losses and bouts won/bouts lost, advanced to quarter-finals.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCMWMLMW%%%Bouts WonBouts LostBWM
1HungaryHUN301.000291316Q
2FranceFRA201.00019712Q
3JapanJPN201.000211110Q
4West GermanyFRG201.00020119Q
5RomaniaROU210.667321517Q
6Soviet UnionURS110.50019136Q
7PolandPOL110.50018135Q
8CubaCUB110.5001214-2Q
9Great BritainGBR020.0001121-10
10LebanonLBN020.0001022-12
11ItalyITA020.000923-14
12United StatesUSA020.000824-16
13CanadaCAN020.000324-21

Pool 1

PosCompetitor(s)NOCMWMLBouts WonBouts Lost
1West GermanyFRG202011
Klaus ReichertFritz WesselHarald HeinDieter Wellmann
2PolandPOL111813
Witold WoydaLech KoziejowskiJerzy KaczmarekMarek DąbrowskiArkadiusz Godel
3ItalyITA02923
Alfredo Del FranciaNicola GranieriCarlo MontanoArcangelo PinelliStefano Simoncelli

Match #1 FRG 8 – 7POL
Match #2 FRG 12 – 4ITA
Match #3 POL 11 – 5ITA

Pool 2

PosCompetitor(s)NOCMWMLBouts WonBouts Lost
1FranceFRA20197
Jean-Claude MagnanDaniel RevenuChristian NoëlGilles BerolattiBernard Talvard
2CubaCUB111214
Evelio GonzálezEduardo JhonsJesús GilEnrique SalvatJorge Garbey
3Great BritainGBR021121
Mike BreckinBarry PaulGraham PaulTony PowerIan Single

Match #1 FRA 9 – 1CUB
Match #2 FRA 10 – 6GBR
Match #3 CUB 11 – 5GBR

Pool 3

PosCompetitor(s)NOCMWMLBouts WonBouts Lost
1JapanJPN202111
Shiro MaruyamaMasaya FukudaHiroshi NakajimaKiyoshi UeharaIchiro Serizawa
2Soviet UnionURS111913
Vasily StankovichViktor PutyatinAnatoly KoteshevVladimir DenisovLeonid Romanov
3United StatesUSA02824
Carl BorackMartin DavisJoseph FreemanJohn NonnaTyrone Simmons

Match #1 JPN 9 – 7URS
Match #2 JPN 12 – 4USA
Match #3 URS 12 – 4USA

Pool 4

Jury PresidentZygmunt PawlasPOL
PosCompetitor(s)NOCMWMLBouts WonBouts Lost
1HungaryHUN302913
Sándor SzabóCsaba FenyvesiLászló KamutiIstván MartonJenő Kamuti
2RomaniaROU213215
Iuliu FalbȘtefan HauklerMihai ȚiuTănase MureșanuAurel Ștefan
3LebanonLBN021022
Ali ChekrYves Daniel DarricauFawzi MerhiAli Sleiman
4CanadaCAN02324
Magdy ConydHerbert ObstGerry WiedelLester Wong

Match #1 HUN 8 – 7ROU
Match #2 HUN 13 – 3LBN
Match #3 HUN 13 – 3CAN
Match #4 ROU 9 – 7LBN
Match #5 ROU 16 – 0CAN

Quarter-Finals (1 September 1972)

Winner of each pool advanced to semi-finals.

Match #1 FRA 9 – 6ROU
Match #2 URS 9 – 6FRG
Match #3 POL 9 – 5JPN
Match #4 HUN 9 – 6CUB

Semi-Finals (2 September 1972 — 10:00)

Winner of each pool advanced to final.

Match #1 URS 9 – 6FRA
Match #2 POL 8 – 7HUN

Classification Round 5-8 (2 September 1972 — 8:00)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBouts WonBouts LostTDTR
1West GermanyFRG201810
Klaus ReichertFritz WesselHarald HeinDieter WellmannErk Sens-Gorius
2JapanJPN111615
Shiro MaruyamaMasaya FukudaHiroshi NakajimaIchiro SerizawaKiyoshi Uehara
=3RomaniaROU0139
Iuliu FalbȘtefan HauklerMihai ȚiuTănase Mureșanu
=3CubaCUB0169
Evelio GonzálezEduardo JhonsJesús GilEnrique Salvat

Match #1 FRG 9 – 3ROU
Match #2 JPN 9 – 6CUB

Final Pool (2 September 1972 — 19:30)

Match 1-2 POL 9 – 5URS
Match 3-4 FRA 9 – 7HUN
Match 5-6 FRG 9 – 7JPN