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VOOZH | about |
| Date | 5 August 2012 | |
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| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | ExCeL, Newham, London | |
| Participants | 31 from 8 countries | |
| Format | Single-elimination tournament. | |
South Korea were only seeded sixth for the London Olympic team sabre tournament because of poor performances in previous team competitions. This seemed to be a false position as the Koreans had 3 of the top 11 seeds in the individual event competing as part of their team. Korea duly delivered the only shock of the opening round when, despite the best efforts of world ranked #1 Nicolas Limbach, they defeated Germany.
A bigger shock came in the semi-finals when the Koreans upset Italy largely through the effort of their top man, Gu Bon-Gil. They would have expected to face World Champions Russia in the final but this was not to be as the Russians fell in a close and exciting contest to the lower ranked Romanians.
The gold medal contest was also expected to be a close fought affair but instead turned into the most one sided match of the whole event. Korea had early successes and continued to build their lead throughout the match. They went on to win a conclusive 45-26 victory over the European opponents. This was the first time an Asian nation had won an Olympic menβs team title in fencing. Italy rebounded from their defeat against Korea to beat Russia for bronze despite being punished for overenthusiastic celebrations at one point in the contest.
| Pos | Seed | Competitors | NOC | ||||
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| 1 | 6 | Republic of Korea | π Image KOR | Gold | |||
| Gu Bon-Gil β’ Kim Jeong-Hwan β’ Oh Eun-Seok β’ Won U-Yeong | |||||||
| 2 | 4 | Romania | π Image ROU | Silver | |||
| Alexandru SiriΘeanu β’ Florin Zalomir β’ RareΘ Dumitrescu β’ Tiberiu Dolniceanu | |||||||
| 3 | 7 | Italy | π Image ITA | Bronze | |||
| Aldo Montano β’ Diego Occhiuzzi β’ Luigi Tarantino β’ Luigi Samele | |||||||
| 4 | 1 | Russian Federation | π Image RUS | ||||
| Nikolay Kovalyov β’ Veniamin Reshetnikov β’ Aleksey Yakimenko | |||||||
| 5 | 3 | Germany | π Image GER | ||||
| Max Hartung β’ BjΓΆrn HΓΌbner β’ Nicolas Limbach β’ Benedikt Wagner | |||||||
| 6 | 5 | People's Republic of China | π Image CHN | ||||
| Zhong Man β’ Wang Jingzhi β’ Jiang Kelu β’ Liu Xiao | |||||||
| 7 | 2 | Belarus | π Image BLR | ||||
| Aliaksandr Buikevich β’ Aliaksei Likhacheuski β’ Valery Pryiemka β’ Dzmitry Lapkes | |||||||
| 8 | 8 | United States | π Image USA | ||||
| Tim Morehouse β’ James Williams β’ Daryl Homer β’ Jeff Spear | |||||||
| Date | 5 August 2012 β 11:30 |
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| Format | Winner of each match advanced to quarter-finals. |
| Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | Result | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | |
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| Match #1 | 05 Aug 11:30 | Piste Blue | Russian Federation (1) | π Image RUS | 45 β 33 | United States (8) | π Image USA | |
| Match #2 | 05 Aug 11:30 | Piste Yellow | Romania (4) | π Image ROU | 45 β 30 | People's Republic of China (5) | π Image CHN | |
| Match #3 | 05 Aug 11:30 | Piste Green | Republic of Korea (6) | π Image KOR | 45 β 38 | Germany (3) | π Image GER | |
| Match #4 | 05 Aug 11:30 | Piste Red | Italy (7) | π Image ITA | 45 β 44 | Belarus (2) | π Image BLR |
| Date | 5 August 2012 |
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| Format | Winner of each match advanced to final pool. |
| Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | Result | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | |
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| Match #1 | 05 Aug 13:30 | Piste Blue | Romania (4) | π Image ROU | 45 β 43 | Russian Federation (1) | π Image RUS | |
| Match #2 | 05 Aug 13:30 | Piste Green | Republic of Korea (6) | π Image KOR | 45 β 37 | Italy (7) | π Image ITA |
| Date | 5 August 2012 |
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| Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | Result | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | |
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| Match #1 | 05 Aug 12:30 | Piste Blue | People's Republic of China (5) | π Image CHN | 45 β 28 | United States (8) | π Image USA | |
| Match #2 | 05 Aug 12:30 | Piste Green | Germany (3) | π Image GER | 45 β 40 | Belarus (2) | π Image BLR |
| Date | 5 August 2012 |
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| Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | Result | Competitors (Seed) | NOC | |
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| Match 1/2 | 05 Aug 18:45 | Piste Final | Republic of Korea (6) | π Image KOR | 45 β 26 | Romania (4) | π Image ROU | |
| Match 3/4 | 05 Aug 18:00 | Piste Final | Italy (7) | π Image ITA | 45 β 40 | Russian Federation (1) | π Image RUS | |
| Match 5/6 | 05 Aug 14:30 | Piste Blue | Germany (3) | π Image GER | 45 β 30 | People's Republic of China (5) | π Image CHN | |
| Match 7/8 | 05 Aug 14:30 | Piste Green | Belarus (2) | π Image BLR | 45 β 35 | United States (8) | π Image USA |