Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's team épée

The men's team épée was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twelfth appearance of the event. The competition was held October 20–21, 1964, with 86 fencers from 18 nations competing.[1]

Men's team épée at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Waseda Memorial Hall
Dates	October 20–21
Competitors	86 from 18 nations
Medalists
Győző Kulcsár, Zoltán Nemere, Tamás Gábor, István Kausz, Árpád Bárány  Hungary Giuseppe Delfino, Alberto Pellegrino, Gianluigi Saccaro, Gianfranco Paolucci, Giovanni Battista Breda  Italy Claude Brodin, Yves Dreyfus, Claude Bourquard, Jack Guittet, Jacques Brodin  France

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary (HUN)	Italy (ITA)	France (FRA)

Results

Round 1

Ties between teams were broken by individual victories (in parentheses), then by touches received.

Pool A
1.	Soviet Union (URS)	2-0 (24)	Q2
2.	Switzerland (SUI)	2-0 (21)	Q2
3.	Argentina (ARG)	0-2 (6)
4.	Lebanon (LIB)	0-2 (4)

Pool B
1.	Austria (AUT)	2-0 (24)	Q2
2.	Sweden (SWE)	2-0 (23)	Q2
3.	Australia (AUS)	0-2 (6)
4.	Colombia (COL)	0-2 (3)

Pool C
1.	Italy (ITA)	2-0 (25)	Q2
2.	Hungary (HUN)	2-0 (25)	Q2
3.	Japan (JPN)	0-2 (6)
4.	Iran (IRI)	0-2 (1)

Pool D
1.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1-1 (17)	Q2
2.	Great Britain (GBR)	1-1 (16)	Q2
3.	United States (USA)	1-1 (14)

Pool E
1.	Poland (POL)	1-0 (14)	Q2
2.	France (FRA)	1-0 (9)	Q2
3.	United States (USA)	0-2 (2)

Championship rounds

	Round of 16				Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Hungary (HUN)	8
	Austria (AUT)	1
					Hungary (HUN)	8
					Soviet Union (URS)	4
									Hungary (HUN)	9
									France (FRA)	3
					France (FRA)	8
					United Team of Germany (EUA)	4
													Hungary (HUN)	8
													Italy (ITA)	3
					Italy (ITA)	9
					Poland (POL)	6
									Italy (ITA)	8
									Sweden (SWE)	2			Third place
					Sweden (SWE)	9							France (FRA)	8
					Switzerland (SUI)	1							Sweden (SWE)	8
	Switzerland (SUI)	8
	Great Britain (GBR)	4

Fifth place semifinal

	Fifth place semifinals				Fifth place match
	Poland (POL)	9
	Switzerland (SUI)	5
					Poland (POL)	8
					United Team of Germany (EUA)	8
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	8
	Soviet Union (URS)	3

Rosters

Argentina Félix Galimi Zelmar Casco Jesús Taboada Francisco Serp Australia Russell Hobby John Humphreys Imants Terrauds Ivan Lund Ian Bowditch Austria Udo Birnbaum Herbert Polzhuber Roland Losert Rudolf Trost Marcus Leyrer Colombia Emilio Echeverry Ernesto Sastre Dibier Tamayo Humberto Posada France Claude Brodin Yves Dreyfus Claude Bourquard Jack Guittet Jacques Brodin Great Britain Bill Hoskyns John Pelling Peter Jacobs Michael Howard Allan Jay

Germany Franz Rompza Max Geuter Volkmar Würtz Paul Gnaier Haakon Stein Hungary Győző Kulcsár Zoltán Nemere Tamás Gábor István Kausz Árpád Bárány Iran Houshmand Almasi Nasser Madani Bizhan Zarnegar Shahpour Zarnegar Italy Giuseppe Delfino Alberto Pellegrino Gianluigi Saccaro Gianfranco Paolucci Giovanni Battista Breda Japan Toshiaki Araki Katsutada Minatoi Kazuhiko Tabuchi Heizaburo Okawa Takeshi Teshima Lebanon Michel Saykali Joseph Gemayel Hassan El-Said Ibrahim Osman

Poland Henryk Nielaba Mikołaj Pomarnacki Bogdan Gonsior Bohdan Andrzejewski Jerzy Pawłowski South Korea Sin Du-Ho Kim Chang-Hwan Han Myeong-Seok Kim Man-Sig Soviet Union Bruno Habārovs Guram Kostava Yury Smolyakov Grigory Kriss Aleksey Nikanchikov Switzerland Claudio Polledri Paul Meister Walter Bar Jean Gontier Michel Steininger Sweden Ivar Genesjö Orvar Lindwall Hans Lagerwall Göran Abrahamsson Carl-Wilhelm Engdahl United States Paul Pesthy Frank Anger David Micahnik Larry Anastasi

References

1. "Fencing: 1960 Olympic Results - Men's team épée". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2010-09-09. Retrieved 2010-12-08.

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.