Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Men's team sabre
at the Games of the Olympiad
Fencing pictogram.svg
Olympic fencing
Venue Makuhari Messe
Date 28 July 2021
Competitors 36 from 9 nations
Medalists
<templatestyles src="Module:Infobox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
1st Oh Sang-uk
Kim Jun-ho
Kim Jung-hwan
Gu Bon-gil
 South Korea
2nd Luca Curatoli
Luigi Samele
Enrico Berrè
Aldo Montano
 Italy
3rd Áron Szilágyi
András Szatmári
Tamás Decsi
Csanád Gémesi
 Hungary
← 2012
2024 →

The men's team sabre event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 28 July 2021 at the Makuhari Messe,[1] with 27 fencers (9 teams of 3) from 9 nations competing.[2]

<templatestyles src="Template:TOC limit/styles.css" />

Background

Officially the 25th appearance of the event, it has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1908 except 2016 (during the time when team events were rotated off the schedule, with only two of the three weapons for each of the men's and women's categories).

The reigning (2012) Olympic champion is South Korea (Gu Bon-gil, Won Woo-young, Kim Jung-hwan, and Oh Eun-seok). South Korea has also won the last three World Championships in the event, with the 2019 (reigning) team consisting of Gu, Kim Jun-ho, Oh Sang-uk and Ha Han-sol. A preview from Olympics.com identified Hungary as a historically strong nation in the event looking to continue its success, led by 2012 and 2016 individual gold medalist Áron Szilágyi.[3] Szilágyi in the meanwhile also won the 2020 gold medal in individual sabre competition.

Qualification

<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a team of 3 fencers in the men's team sabre. These fencers also automatically qualified for the individual event.[2]

There are 8 dedicated quota spots for men's team sabre. They are allocated as through the world team ranking list of 5 April 2021. The top 4 spots, regardless of geographic zone, qualify (South Korea, Hungary, Italy, and Germany). The next four spots are allocated to separate geographic zones, as long as an NOC from that zone is in the top 16. These places went to Iran (Asia/Oceania), the United States (Americas), Egypt (Africa), and ROC (Europe).[2]

Additionally, there are 8 host/invitational spots that can be spread throughout the various fencing events.[2] Japan qualified one men's sabre fencer through normal individual qualification and used two host quota places to complete a men's sabre team.

The COVID-19 pandemic delayed many of the events for qualifying for fencing, moving the close of the rankings period back to April 5, 2021 rather than the original April 4, 2020.[2][4]

Competition format

The 2020 tournament is a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match features the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with 9 three-minute bouts to 5 points; the winning team is the one that reaches 45 total points first or is leading after the end of the nine bouts. Standard sabre rules regarding target area, striking, and priority are used.[5][6]

Schedule

The competition is held over a single day, Wednesday, 28 July. The first session runs from 10 a.m. to approximately 3:20 p.m. (when all matches except the bronze and gold medal finals are expected to conclude), after which there is a break until 6:30 p.m. before the medal bouts are held.[1]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Date Time Round
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 10:00
 
 
 
 
18:30
 
Round of 16
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Classification 7/8
Classification 5/6
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match

Results

Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                           
 South Korea 45
 Egypt 39
 Japan 32
 Egypt 45
 South Korea 45
 Germany 42
 Republic of China 28
 Germany 45
 South Korea 45
 Italy 26
 Italy 45
 Iran 44
 Italy 45
 Hungary 43 Bronze medal bout
 United States 36  Germany 40
 Hungary 45  Hungary 45

5–8th place classification

 
5–8th place semifinals Fifth place bout
 
           
 
 
 
 
 Egypt 45
 
 
 
 Republic of China 41
 
 Egypt 45
 
 
 
 Iran 24
 
 Iran 45
 
 
 United States 36
 
Seventh place bout
 
 
 
 
 
 Republic of China WO
 
 
 United States

Final classification

Rank Team Athlete
1st  South Korea Oh Sang-uk
Kim Jun-ho
Kim Jung-hwan
Gu Bon-gil
2nd  Italy Luca Curatoli
Luigi Samele
Enrico Berrè
Aldo Montano
3rd  Hungary Áron Szilágyi
András Szatmári
Tamás Decsi
Csanád Gémesi
4  Germany Max Hartung
Benedikt Wagner
Richard Hübers
Matyas Szabo
5  Egypt Mohamed Amer
Ziad El-Sissy
Medhat Moataz
Mohab Samer
6  Iran Mojtaba Abedini
Mohammad Fotouhi
Ali Pakdaman
Mohammad Rahbari
7  Republic of China Dmitriy Danilenko
Kamil Ibragimov
Konstantin Lokhanov
Veniamin Reshetnikov
8  United States Eli Dershwitz
Daryl Homer
Andrew Mackiewicz
Khalil Thompson
9  Japan Tomohiro Shimamura
Kaito Streets
Kenta Tokunan
Kento Yoshida

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. Academy of Fencing Masters
  5. NBC
  6. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links