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Sabre, Team, Men

Date24 July 1996
StatusOlympic
LocationGeorgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants34 from 11 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament.

Russia had three of the top five ranked fencers in the world and were hot favourites despite having dropped the World title to Italy in 1995. The team of Grigory Kiriyenko, Stanislav Pozdnyakov and Sergey Sharikov ran through the opposition with little difficulty. They defeated Spain 45-34 and Italy 45-28 before recording their most decisive victory, 45-24, against Hungary in the final. Stanislav Pozdnyakov completed the individual and team gold medal double.

PosCompetitorsNOC
1Russian FederationRUSGold
Grigory KiriyenkoSergey SharikovStanislav Pozdnyakov
2HungaryHUNSilver
Bence SzabóCsaba KövesJózsef Navarrete
3ItalyITABronze
Luigi TarantinoRaffaello CasertaTonhi Terenzi
4PolandPOL
Janusz OlechNorbert JaskotRafał Sznajder
5FranceFRA
Damien TouyaFranck DucheixJean-Philippe Daurelle
6SpainESP
Antonio GarcíaFernando MedinaRaúl Peinador
7RomaniaROU
Florin LupeicăMihai CovaliuVilmoș Szabo
8GermanyGER
Felix BeckerFrank BleckmannSteffen Wiesinger
9United StatesUSA
Peter Cox, Jr.Peter WestbrookTom Strzalkowski
10CanadaCAN
Jean-Marie BanosJean-Paul BanosTony PlourdeEvens Gravel
11Republic of KoreaKOR
Lee Hyo-GeunSeo Seong-JunYu Sang-Ju

Round One

Date24 July 1996
FormatWinner of each match advanced to quarter-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 JulRussian FederationRUSbye
Match #224 JulPiste 5SpainESP45 – 25CanadaCAN
Match #324 JulGermanyGERbye
Match #424 JulItalyITAbye
Match #524 JulFranceFRAbye
Match #624 JulPiste 1PolandPOL45 – 24Republic of KoreaKOR
Match #724 JulPiste 3RomaniaROU45 – 40United StatesUSA
Match #824 JulHungaryHUNbye

Quarter-Finals

Date24 July 1996
FormatWinner of each match advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 JulPiste 1Russian FederationRUS45 – 34SpainESP
Match #224 JulPiste 5ItalyITA45 – 42GermanyGER
Match #324 JulPiste 4PolandPOL45 – 42FranceFRA
Match #424 JulPiste 6HungaryHUN45 – 40RomaniaROU

Semi-Finals

Date24 July 1996
FormatWinner of each match advanced to final.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 JulPiste 5Russian FederationRUS45 – 28ItalyITA
Match #224 JulPiste 4HungaryHUN45 – 33PolandPOL

Classification Round 9-12

Date24 July 1996
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 JulPiste 3United StatesUSA45 – 32Republic of KoreaKOR

Classification Round 5-8

Date24 July 1996
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 JulPiste 6SpainESP45 – 34GermanyGER
Match #224 JulPiste 1FranceFRA45 – 39RomaniaROU

Final Round

Date24 July 1996
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/224 JulPiste 1Russian FederationRUS45 – 25HungaryHUN
Match 3/424 JulPiste 1ItalyITA45 – 37PolandPOL
Match 5/624 JulPiste 5FranceFRA45 – 41SpainESP
Match 7/824 JulPiste 6RomaniaROU45 – 42GermanyGER
Match 9/1024 JulPiste 3United StatesUSA45 – 43CanadaCAN