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Foil, Team, Men

Date	15 – 16 October 1964
Status	Olympic
Location	Memorial Hall, Waseda Daigaku, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Participants	78 from 16 countries

After their success at the 1960 games, the Soviet Union had continued to be the strongest team in the world and had won three successive world titles in 1961, 1962 and 1963. They were untroubled in reaching the semi-final where they were joined by Poland, France and the surprise qualifiers, Japan, who had caused a major upset by eliminating Hungary. The Soviets and Poles were too good for their respective semi-final opponents and faced off for the gold medal. USSR beat Poland by 9-7 with a valuable contribution from German Sveshnikov who won all four of his matches and retained the title. Italy, who had won a medal in this event at every Olympic Games since 1928, were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC
1	Soviet Union	URS	Gold
	Viktor Zhdanovich • Yury Sisikin • Mark Midler • German Sveshnikov • Yury Sharov
2	Poland	POL	Silver
	Zbigniew Skrudlik • Witold Woyda • Egon Franke • Ryszard Parulski • Jan Różycki • Henryk Nielaba (DNS)
3	France	FRA	Bronze
	Jean-Claude Magnan • Daniel Revenu • Jacky Courtillat • Pierre Rodocanachi • Christian Noël
4	Japan	JPN
	Kazuhiko Tabuchi • Fujio Shimizu • Kazuo Mano • Heizaburo Okawa • Sosuke Toda
5	Unified Team of Germany	GER
	Jürgen Brecht • Dieter Wellmann • Eberhard Mehl • Tim Gerresheim • Jürgen Theuerkauff • Dieter Schmitt (DNS)
6	Romania	ROU
	Tănase Mureșanu • Ion Drîmbă • Iuliu Falb • Ștefan Haukler • Attila Csipler
=7	Hungary	HUN
	Jenő Kamuti • László Kamuti • József Gyuricza • Sándor Szabó • Béla Gyarmati
=7	Italy	ITA
	Gianguido Milanesi • Pasquale La Ragione • Arcangelo Pinelli • Nicola Granieri • Mario Curletto
=9	United States	USA
	Larry Anastasi • Gene Glazer • Herb Cohen • Albie Axelrod • Ed Richards
=9	Great Britain	GBR
	Bill Hoskyns • Allan Jay • Sandy Leckie • Ralph Cooperman • Derrick Cawthorne
=9	United Arab Republic	EGY
	Moustafa Soheim • Farid El-Ashmawi • Ahmed El-Hamy El-Husseini • Gamil Kalyoubi • Sameh Abdel Rahman
=9	Iran	IRI
	Houshmand Almasi • Nasser Madani • Shahpour Zarnegar • Bizhan Zarnegar
=13	Argentina	ARG
	Adolfo Bisellach • Jesús Taboada • Alberto Lanteri • Orlando Nannini • Félix Galimi
=13	Australia	AUS
	Gérard Tubier • David McKenzie • John Douglas • Brian McCowage • Ivan Lund
=13	Republic of Korea	KOR
	Sin Du-Ho • Han Myeong-Seok • Kim Man-Sik • Kim Chang-Hwan
=13	Colombia	COL
	Ignacio Posada • Dibier Tamayo • Emilio Echeverri • Ernesto Sastre • Humberto Posada

Round One (15 October 1964 — 8:30)

Top two teams in each pool advanced to quarter-finals.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	MW	ML	MW%%%	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost	BWM
1	Soviet Union	URS	2	0	1.000	26	0	26

2	Unified Team of Germany	GER	2	0	1.000	23	2	21

3	Japan	JPN	2	0	1.000	22	5	17

4	Hungary	HUN	2	0	1.000	22	7	15

5	Poland	POL	2	0	1.000	22	8	14

6	Italy	ITA	2	0	1.000	22	10	12

7	France	FRA	2	1	0.667	30	14	16

8	Romania	ROU	2	1	0.667	28	13	15

9	United States	USA	2	1	0.667	22	22	0

10	Great Britain	GBR	0	2	0.000	12	18	-6

11	United Arab Republic	EGY	0	2	0.000	9	20	-11

12	Australia	AUS	0	2	0.000	6	26	-20

13	Republic of Korea	KOR	0	2	0.000	3	24	-21

14	Iran	IRI	0	2	0.000	2	24	-22

15	Colombia	COL	0	2	0.000	0	25	-25

16	Argentina	ARG	0	3	0.000	5	36	-31

Pool 1

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	MW	ML	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	France	FRA	2	1	30	14	Q
	Jean-Claude Magnan • Daniel Revenu • Jacky Courtillat • Pierre Rodocanachi • Christian Noël
2	Romania	ROU	2	1	28	13	Q
	Tănase Mureșanu • Ion Drîmbă • Iuliu Falb • Ștefan Haukler • Attila Csipler
3	United States	USA	2	1	22	22
	Larry Anastasi • Gene Glazer • Herb Cohen • Albie Axelrod • Ed Richards
4	Argentina	ARG	0	3	5	36
	Adolfo Bisellach • Jesús Taboada • Alberto Lanteri • Orlando Nannini • Félix Galimi

Match #1	ROU	11 – 5	FRA
Match #2	FRA	9 – 3	USA
Match #3	FRA	16 – 0	ARG
Match #4	USA	8 – 8	ROU
Match #5	ROU	9 – 0	ARG
Match #6	USA	11 – 5	ARG

Pool 2

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	MW	ML	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Poland	POL	2	0	22	8	Q
	Zbigniew Skrudlik • Witold Woyda • Ryszard Parulski • Jan Różycki
2	Italy	ITA	2	0	22	10	Q
	Gianguido Milanesi • Pasquale La Ragione • Arcangelo Pinelli • Nicola Granieri • Mario Curletto
3	Great Britain	GBR	0	2	12	18
	Bill Hoskyns • Allan Jay • Sandy Leckie • Ralph Cooperman • Derrick Cawthorne
4	Australia	AUS	0	2	6	26
	Gérard Tubier • David McKenzie • John Douglas • Brian McCowage • Ivan Lund

Match #1	POL	9 – 5	GBR
Match #2	POL	13 – 3	AUS
Match #3	ITA	9 – 7	GBR
Match #4	ITA	13 – 3	AUS

Pool 3

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	MW	ML	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Japan	JPN	2	0	22	5	Q
	Kazuhiko Tabuchi • Fujio Shimizu • Kazuo Mano • Heizaburo Okawa • Sosuke Toda
2	Hungary	HUN	2	0	22	7	Q
	Jenő Kamuti • László Kamuti • József Gyuricza • Sándor Szabó • Béla Gyarmati
3	United Arab Republic	EGY	0	2	9	20
	Moustafa Soheim • Farid El-Ashmawi • Ahmed El-Hamy El-Husseini • Gamil Kalyoubi • Sameh Abdel Rahman
4	Republic of Korea	KOR	0	2	3	24
	Sin Du-Ho • Han Myeong-Seok • Kim Man-Sik • Kim Chang-Hwan

Match #1	JPN	11 – 5	EGY
Match #2	JPN	11 – 0	KOR
Match #3	HUN	9 – 4	EGY
Match #4	HUN	13 – 3	KOR

Pool 4

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	MW	ML	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Soviet Union	URS	2	0	26	0	Q
	Viktor Zhdanovich • Yury Sisikin • Mark Midler • German Sveshnikov • Yury Sharov
2	Unified Team of Germany	GER	2	0	23	2	Q
	Jürgen Brecht • Dieter Wellmann • Eberhard Mehl • Tim Gerresheim • Jürgen Theuerkauff
3	Iran	IRI	0	2	2	24
	Houshmand Almasi • Nasser Madani • Shahpour Zarnegar • Bizhan Zarnegar
4	Colombia	COL	0	2	0	25
	Ignacio Posada • Dibier Tamayo • Emilio Echeverri • Ernesto Sastre • Humberto Posada

Match #1	URS	10 – 0	IRI
Match #2	URS	16 – 0	COL
Match #3	GER	14 – 2	IRI
Match #4	GER	9 – 0	COL

Quarter-Finals (15 October 1964)

Winner of each match advanced to semi-finals.

Match #1	POL	9 – 2	ROU
Match #2	FRA	9 – 5	ITA
Match #3	JPN	9 – 7	HUN
Match #4	URS	9 – 3	GER

Semi-Finals (16 October 1964)

Winner of each match advanced to final.

Match #1	URS	9 – 6	FRA
Match #2	POL	9 – 4	JPN

Final Pool (16 October 1964 — 17:00)

Match 1-2	URS	9 – 7	POL
Match 3-4	FRA	9 – 4	JPN

Classification 5-8 (16 October 1964 — 8:30)

Match #1	GER	9 – 5	ITA
Match #2	ROU	9 – 5	HUN
Match 5-6	GER	8 – 8	ROU