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.
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 St. Louis Games.
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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).
Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.
January 01, 1970
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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 Pezsa 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 Men s sabreat the Games of the XVIII OlympiadTibor Pezsa 1967 VenueWaseda University Memorial HallDatesOctober 19 20Competitors52 from 21 nationsMedalistsTibor Pezsa HungaryClaude Arabo FranceUmyar Mavlikhanov Soviet Union 19601968 Contents 1 Background 2 Competition format 3 Schedule 4 Results 4 1 Round 1 4 1 1 Round 1 pool A 4 1 2 Round 1 pool B 4 1 3 Round 1 pool C 4 1 4 Round 1 pool D 4 1 5 Round 1 pool E 4 1 6 Round 1 pool F 4 1 7 Round 1 pool G 4 1 8 Round 1 pool H 4 2 Round 2 4 2 1 Round 2 pool A 4 2 2 Round 2 pool B 4 2 3 Round 2 pool C 4 2 4 Round 2 pool D 4 3 Knockout rounds 4 3 1 Group 1 4 3 2 Group 2 4 3 3 Group 3 4 3 4 Group 4 4 4 Fifth place semifinal 4 5 Final 5 References 6 SourcesBackground editThis 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 Pawlowski 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 Pawlowski 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 St Louis Games Competition format editThe 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 editAll times are Japan Standard Time UTC 9 Date Time Round Monday 19 October 1964 8 30 Round 1Round 2 Wednesday 14 October 1964 17 3017 30 Round of 16QuarterfinalsClassification 5 8FinalResults editRound 1 edit Round 1 pool A edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Yakov Rylsky nbsp Soviet Union 4 1 Q 2 Pierluigi Chicca nbsp Italy 4 1 Q 3 Ioan Drimba nbsp Romania 3 2 Q 4 Rafael Gonzalez nbsp Argentina 2 3 B Ignacio Posada nbsp Colombia 2 3 B 6 Michael Ryan nbsp Ireland 0 5 Barrage A Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 4 Ignacio Posada nbsp Colombia 1 0 Q 5 Rafael Gonzalez nbsp Argentina 0 1 Round 1 pool B edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Jerzy Pawlowsky nbsp Poland 6 0 Q 2 Eugene Hamori nbsp United States 5 1 Q 3 Cesare Salvadori nbsp Italy 4 2 Q 4 Octavian Vintila nbsp Romania 3 3 Q 5 Jan Boutmy nbsp Netherlands Antilles 2 4 6 Loc Nguyen The nbsp Vietnam 1 5 7 Ronnie Theseira nbsp Malaysia 0 6 Round 1 pool C edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Andrzej Piatkowski nbsp Poland 5 0 Q 2 Wladimiro Calarese nbsp Italy 4 1 Q 3 Thomas Orley nbsp United States 3 2 Q 4 Shibata Seiji nbsp Japan 2 3 Q 5 Robert Foxcroft nbsp Canada 1 5 6 Houshmand Almasi nbsp Iran 0 6 Round 1 pool D edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Peter Bakonyi nbsp Hungary 5 0 Q 2 Attila Keresztes nbsp United States 4 1 Q 3 J Theuerkauff nbsp United Team of Germany 3 2 Q 4 Teruhiro Kitao nbsp Japan 2 3 Q 5 Emilio Echeverri nbsp Colombia 1 5 6 Nasser Madani nbsp Iran 0 5 Round 1 pool E edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Mark Rakita nbsp Soviet Union 6 0 Q 2 Jacques Lefevre nbsp France 5 1 Q 3 Funamizu Mitsuyuki nbsp Japan 4 2 Q 4 Dieter Wellman nbsp United Team of Germany 3 3 Q 5 Richard Oldcorn nbsp Great Britain 2 4 6 Bijan Zarnegar nbsp Iran 1 5 7 Xuan Tran Van nbsp Vietnam 0 6 Round 1 pool F edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Marcel Parent nbsp France 5 0 Q 2 Emil Ochyra nbsp Poland 4 1 Q 3 Walter Kostner nbsp United Team of Germany 3 2 Q 4 Alexander Leckie nbsp Great Britain 2 3 Q 5 Henry Sommerville nbsp Australia 1 4 6 J Bouchier Hayes nbsp Ireland 0 5 Round 1 pool G edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Attila Kovacs nbsp Hungary 6 0 Q 2 Claude Arabo nbsp France 5 1 Q 3 Arnold Cooperman nbsp Great Britain 3 3 Q 4 Yves Brasseur nbsp Belgium 2 4 B Alexander Martonffy nbsp Australia 2 4 B Enrique Penabella nbsp Cuba 2 4 B 7 Juan Frecia nbsp Argentina 1 5 Barrage G Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 4 Enrique Penabella nbsp Cuba 2 0 Q 5 Yves Brasseur nbsp Belgium 0 1 6 Alexander Martonffy nbsp Australia 0 1 Round 1 pool H edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Tănase Mureșanu nbsp Romania 6 0 Q 2 Umar Mavlikhanov nbsp Soviet Union 5 1 Q 3 Tibor Pezsa nbsp Hungary 3 3 Q 4 Alberto Lanteri nbsp Argentina 3 3 Q 5 John Andru nbsp Canada 2 4 6 Les Tornallyay nbsp Australia 1 5 7 Humberto Posada nbsp Colombia 1 5 Round 2 edit Round 2 pool A edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Yakov Rylsky nbsp Soviet Union 6 1 Q 2 Dieter Wellman nbsp United Team of Germany 5 2 Q 3 Tibor Pezsa nbsp Hungary 4 3 Q 4 Marcel Parent nbsp France 4 3 Q 5 Wladimiro Calarese nbsp Italy 3 4 6 Attila Keresztes nbsp United States 3 4 7 Funamizu Mitsuyuki nbsp Japan 2 5 8 Octavian Vintila nbsp Romania 1 6 Round 2 pool B edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Jerzy Pawlowski nbsp Poland 6 1 Q 2 Umar Mavlikhanov nbsp Soviet Union 5 2 Q 3 Attila Kovacs nbsp Hungary 5 2 Q 4 Jacques Lefevre nbsp France 4 3 Q 5 Ioan Drimba nbsp Romania 3 4 6 Gudrum Theuerkauff nbsp United Team of Germany 3 4 7 Shibata Seiji nbsp Japan 1 6 8 Alexander Leckie nbsp Great Britain 1 6 Round 2 pool C edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Mark Rakita nbsp Soviet Union 7 0 Q 2 Claude Arabo nbsp France 6 1 Q 3 Walter Kostner nbsp United Team of Germany 4 3 Q 4 Pierluigi Chicca nbsp Italy 4 3 Q 5 Thomas Orley nbsp United States 3 4 6 Andrzej Piatkowski nbsp Poland 3 4 7 Alberto Lanteri nbsp Argentina 1 6 8 Ketao Teruhiro nbsp Japan 0 7 Round 2 pool D edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Emil Ochyra nbsp Poland 7 0 Q 2 Peter Bakonyi nbsp Hungary 5 2 Q 3 Cesare Salvadori nbsp Italy 4 3 Q 4 Tanase Muresan nbsp Romania 4 3 Q 5 Eugene Hamori nbsp United States 3 4 6 Arnold Cooperman nbsp Great Britain 2 5 7 Humberto Posada nbsp Colombia 2 5 8 Enrique Penabella nbsp Cuba 1 6 Knockout rounds edit The winner of each group advanced to the final pool while the runner up moved into a 5th place semifinal Group 1 edit Round of 16Quarterfinals nbsp Yakov Rylsky URS 10 b nbsp Jacques Lefevre FRA 6 nbsp Yakov Rylsky URS 10 b nbsp Walter Kostner EUA 5 nbsp Walter Kostner EUA 10 b nbsp Jerzy Pawlowski POL 9 Group 2 edit Round of 16Quarterfinals nbsp Tibor Pezsa HUN 10 b nbsp Mark Rakita URS 6 nbsp Tibor Pezsa HUN 10 b nbsp Marcel Parent FRA 7 nbsp Marcel Parent FRA 10 b nbsp Tanase Muresan ROU 7 Group 3 edit Round of 16Quarterfinals nbsp Umar Mavlikhanov URS 10 b nbsp Peter Bakonyi HUN 9 nbsp Umar Mavlikhanov URS 10 b nbsp Emil Ochyra POL 9 nbsp Emil Ochyra POL 10 b nbsp Cesare Salvadori ITA 6 Group 4 edit Round of 16Quarterfinals nbsp Claude Arabo FRA 10 b nbsp Pierluigi Chicca ITA 4 nbsp Claude Arabo FRA 10 b nbsp Dieter Wellman EUA 6 nbsp Dieter Wellman EUA 10 b nbsp Attila Kovacs HUN 9 Fifth place semifinal edit Fifth place semifinalsFifth place match nbsp Emil Ochyra POL 10 nbsp Walter Kostner EUA 5 nbsp Emil Ochyra POL 10 nbsp Marcel Parent FRA 5 nbsp Dieter Wellman EUA 9 nbsp Marcel Parent FRA 10 Final edit Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes 1 Claude Arabo nbsp France 2 1 GB Tibor Pezsa nbsp Hungary 2 1 GB 3 Umar Mavlikhanov nbsp Soviet Union 1 2 BB Yakov Rylsky nbsp Soviet Union 1 2 BB Bronze medal barrage Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses nbsp Umar Mavlikhanov nbsp Soviet Union 1 0 4 Yakov Rylsky nbsp Soviet Union 0 1 Gold medal barrage Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses nbsp Tibor Pezsa nbsp Hungary 1 0 nbsp Claude Arabo nbsp France 0 1References edit Fencing 1964 Olympic Results Men s sabre sports reference com Archived from the original on 2010 11 15 Retrieved 2010 12 08 a b Sabre Individual Men Olympedia Retrieved 24 November 2020 Official Report p 282 Sources editTokyo Organizing Committee 1964 The Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964 vol 2 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics Men 27s sabre amp oldid 1128885804, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,