Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's sabre

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The men's sabre was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifteenth appearance of the event. The competition was held from October 19 to 20, 1964. 52 fencers from 21 nations competed.^[1] Nations had been limited to three fencers each since 1928. The event was won by Tibor Pézsa, the final of nine straight Games in which a Hungarian fencer won the event. The silver medal went to Claude Arabo of France, with Umyar Mavlikhanov of the Soviet Union taking bronze.

Background

This was the 15th appearance of the event, which is the only fencing event to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Four of the eight finalists from 1960 returned: bronze medalist Wladimiro Calarese of Italy, fourth-place finisher Claude Arabo of France, sixth-place finisher (and 1956 silver medalist) Jerzy Pawłowski of Poland (who, in 1968, would finally break the Hungarian run of nine straight gold medals in the event), and eighth-place finisher Yakov Rylsky of the Soviet Union. Rylsky had won three of the last five world championships (1958, 1961, and 1963). Pawłowski was the only other world champion present; he had won in 1957. Hungary, dominant in men's sabre since 1908, was finally thought vulnerable to the rising stars of Poland and the Soviet Union; the French champion, Arabo, was also a strong contender.^[2]

Ireland, Iran, Malaysia, and the Netherlands Antilles each made their debut in the men's sabre. Italy made its 13th appearance in the event, most of any nation, having missed the inaugural 1896 event and the 1904 Olympics.

Competition format

The 1964 tournament introduced a hybrid pool-play and knockout format. The competition began with two rounds of pool play. In each round, the fencers were divided into pools to play a round-robin within the pool. Bouts were to five touches. Barrages were used to break ties necessary for advancement. The competition then shifted to knockout rounds. These rounds used a single-elimination tournament format to reduce the remaining field from 24 to 16, then from 16 to 8, then from 8 to 4. There were also classification semifinals and a fifth-place match for the quarterfinal losers. Bouts in these knockout rounds were to 10 touches. The four quarterfinal winners then resumed pool play once again for the final. Standard sabre rules were used.^[2]^[3]

Round 1: There were 8 pools of 6 or 7 fencers each. The top 4 fencers in each pool advanced to round 2.
Round 2: There were 4 pools of 8 fencers each. The top 4 fencers in each pool advanced to the knockout rounds.
Knockout rounds: The 16 fencers were seeded into a truncated single-elimination tournament. Two knockout rounds were held, finishing with the quarterfinals.
Classification: There were knockout-style classification matches for 5th place (two 5th–8th semifinals and a 5th/6th match).
Final: The final pool had 4 fencers.

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Date	Time	Round
Monday, 19 October 1964	8:30	Round 1 Round 2
Wednesday, 14 October 1964	17:30 17:30	Round of 16 Quarterfinals Classification 5–8 Final

Results

Round 1

Round 1 pool A

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Yakov Rylsky	Template:FlagIOC	4	1	Q
2	Pierluigi Chicca	Template:FlagIOC	4	1	Q
3	Ioan Drimba	Template:FlagIOC	3	2	Q
4	Rafael González	Template:FlagIOC	2	3	B
4	Ignacio Posada	Template:FlagIOC	2	3	B
6	Michael Ryan	Template:FlagIOC	0	5

Barrage A

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
4	Ignacio Posada	Template:FlagIOC	1	0	Q
5	Rafael González	Template:FlagIOC	0	1

Round 1 pool B

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Jerzy Pawlowsky	Template:FlagIOC	6	0	Q
2	Eugene Hamori	Template:FlagIOC	5	1	Q
3	Cesare Salvadori	Template:FlagIOC	4	2	Q
4	Octavian Vintila	Template:FlagIOC	3	3	Q
5	Jan Boutmy	Template:FlagIOC	2	4
6	Loc Nguyen The	Template:FlagIOC	1	5
7	Ronnie Theseira	Template:FlagIOC	0	6

Round 1 pool C

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Andrzej Piatkowski	Template:FlagIOC	5	0	Q
2	Wladimiro Calarese	Template:FlagIOC	4	1	Q
3	Thomas Orley	Template:FlagIOC	3	2	Q
4	Shibata Seiji	Template:FlagIOC	2	3	Q
5	Robert Foxcroft	Template:FlagIOC	1	5
6	Houshmand Almasi	Template:FlagIOC	0	6

Round 1 pool D

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Peter Bakonyi	Template:FlagIOC	5	0	Q
2	Attila Keresztes	Template:FlagIOC	4	1	Q
3	J. Theuerkauff	Template:FlagIOC	3	2	Q
4	Teruhiro Kitao	Template:FlagIOC	2	3	Q
5	Emilio Echeverri	Template:FlagIOC	1	5
6	Nasser Madani	Template:FlagIOC	0	5

Round 1 pool E

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Mark Rakita	Template:FlagIOC	6	0	Q
2	Jacques Lefevre	Template:FlagIOC	5	1	Q
3	Funamizu Mitsuyuki	Template:FlagIOC	4	2	Q
4	Dieter Wellman	Template:FlagIOC	3	3	Q
5	Richard Oldcorn	Template:FlagIOC	2	4
6	Bijan Zarnegar	Template:FlagIOC	1	5
7	Xuan Tran Van	Template:FlagIOC	0	6

Round 1 pool F

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Marcel Parent	Template:FlagIOC	5	0	Q
2	Emil Ochyra	Template:FlagIOC	4	1	Q
3	Walter Kostner	Template:FlagIOC	3	2	Q
4	Alexander Leckie	Template:FlagIOC	2	3	Q
5	Henry Sommerville	Template:FlagIOC	1	4
6	J. Bouchier-Hayes	Template:FlagIOC	0	5

Round 1 pool G

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Attila Kovacs	Template:FlagIOC	6	0	Q
2	Claude Arabo	Template:FlagIOC	5	1	Q
3	Arnold Cooperman	Template:FlagIOC	3	3	Q
4	Yves Brasseur	Template:FlagIOC	2	4	B
	Alexander Martonffy	Template:FlagIOC	2	4	B
	Enrique Penabella	Template:FlagIOC	2	4	B
7	Juan Frecia	Template:FlagIOC	1	5

Barrage G

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
4	Enrique Penabella	Template:FlagIOC	2	0	Q
5	Yves Brasseur	Template:FlagIOC	0	1
6	Alexander Martonffy	Template:FlagIOC	0	1

Round 1 pool H

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Tănase Mureșanu	Template:FlagIOC	6	0	Q
2	Umar Mavlikhanov	Template:FlagIOC	5	1	Q
3	Tibor Pézsa	Template:FlagIOC	3	3	Q
4	Alberto Lanteri	Template:FlagIOC	3	3	Q
5	John Andru	Template:FlagIOC	2	4
6	Les Tornallyay	Template:FlagIOC	1	5
7	Humberto Posada	Template:FlagIOC	1	5

Round 2

Round 2 pool A

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Yakov Rylsky	Template:FlagIOC	6	1	Q
2	Dieter Wellman	Template:FlagIOC	5	2	Q
3	Tibor Pézsa	Template:FlagIOC	4	3	Q
4	Marcel Parent	Template:FlagIOC	4	3	Q
5	Wladimiro Calarese	Template:FlagIOC	3	4
6	Attila Keresztes	Template:FlagIOC	3	4
7	Funamizu Mitsuyuki	Template:FlagIOC	2	5
8	Octavian Vintila	Template:FlagIOC	1	6

Round 2 pool B

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Jerzy Pawlowski	Template:FlagIOC	6	1	Q
2	Umar Mavlikhanov	Template:FlagIOC	5	2	Q
3	Attila Kovacs	Template:FlagIOC	5	2	Q
4	Jacques Lefevre	Template:FlagIOC	4	3	Q
5	Ioan Drimba	Template:FlagIOC	3	4
6	Gudrum Theuerkauff	Template:FlagIOC	3	4
7	Shibata Seiji	Template:FlagIOC	1	6
8	Alexander Leckie	Template:FlagIOC	1	6

Round 2 pool C

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Mark Rakita	Template:FlagIOC	7	0	Q
2	Claude Arabo	Template:FlagIOC	6	1	Q
3	Walter Kostner	Template:FlagIOC	4	3	Q
4	Pierluigi Chicca	Template:FlagIOC	4	3	Q
5	Thomas Orley	Template:FlagIOC	3	4
6	Andrzej Piatkowski	Template:FlagIOC	3	4
7	Alberto Lanteri	Template:FlagIOC	1	6
8	Ketao Teruhiro	Template:FlagIOC	0	7

Round 2 pool D

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses	Notes
1	Emil Ochyra	Template:FlagIOC	7	0	Q
2	Peter Bakonyi	Template:FlagIOC	5	2	Q
3	Cesare Salvadori	Template:FlagIOC	4	3	Q
4	Tanase Muresan	Template:FlagIOC	4	3	Q
5	Eugene Hamori	Template:FlagIOC	3	4
6	Arnold Cooperman	Template:FlagIOC	2	5
7	Humberto Posada	Template:FlagIOC	2	5
8	Enrique Penabella	Template:FlagIOC	1	6

Knockout rounds

The winner of each group advanced to the final pool, while the runner-up moved into a 5th-place semifinal.