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| Venue | Palau de la Metal·lúrgia | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 2 August 1992 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 44 from 19 nations | ||||||||||||
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The men's sabre was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twenty-second appearance of the event. The competition was held on 2 August 1992. 44 fencers from 19 nations competed.[1] Nations had been limited to three fencers each since 1928. The event was won by Bence Szabó of Hungary, the nation's first victory in the men's sabre since 1964 (the last of its nine-Games winning streak) and 12th overall. Marco Marin took silver while Jean-François Lamour finished with the bronze. Lamour, who had won gold in 1984 and 1988, was unable to win a third title but still became only the second man with three medals in the event (after Aladár Gerevich earned one of each color in 1936, 1948, and 1952). Marin had also finished second in 1984; he was the 12th man with multiple medals in the sabre.
Background
This was the 22nd appearance of the event, which is the only fencing event to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Six of the quarterfinalists from 1988 returned: two-time gold medalist Jean-François Lamour of France, silver medalist Janusz Olech of Poland, bronze medalist Giovanni Scalzo of Italy, and fifth-place finishers György Nébald of Hungary and Felix Becker and Jürgen Nolte of West Germany. Marco Marin, 1984 silver medalist who had not advanced through the knockout rounds in 1988, also returned. The three world championships since the previous Games had been won by Grigory Kiriyenko of the Soviet Union (1989 and 1991) and Nébald (1990).[2]
Saudi Arabia made its debut in the men's sabre; some former Soviet republics competed as the Unified Team. Italy made its 20th appearance in the event, most of any nation, having missed the inaugural 1896 event and the 1904 Olympics.
Competition format
The 1992 tournament used a three-phase format roughly similar to prior years in consisting of a group phase, a double-elimination phase, and a single-elimination phase, but each phase was very different from previous formats.
The first phase was a single round (vs. 3 rounds in 1988) round-robin pool play format; each fencer in a pool faced each other fencer in that pool once. There were 7 pools with 6 or 7 fencers each. The fencers' ranks within the pool were ignored; the overall winning percentage (with touch differential and then touches against used as tie-breakers) were used to rank the fencers. The top 34 advanced to the second phase, while the other fencers were eliminated.
The second phase was a modified, truncated double-elimination tournament. 30 fencers received a bye to the second round (round of 32), while the 4 fencers ranked 31–34 played in the round of 64. Fencers losing in the round of 64 were eliminated, while the remaining rounds were double elimination via repechages. The repechages (but not the main brackets) used a complicated reseeding mechanism. Ultimately, the 4 fencers remaining undefeated after the round of 8 advanced to the quarterfinals along with 4 fencers who advanced through the repechages after one loss.
The final phase was a single elimination tournament with quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final and bronze medal match.
All bouts were to 5 touches. In the second and third phases, matches were best-of-three bouts.
Schedule
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
| Date | Time | Round |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 2 August 1992 | Group round Elimination round Final round |
Results
Group round
Fencers were ranked by win percent, then touch differential, then touches against. This ranking, with adjustments to ensure that no two fencers of the same nation were in the same bracket (noted in parentheses), was used to seed the elimination round brackets.
| Rank | Fencer | Nation | Pool | Rank | Wins | Losses | Win % | TF | TA | TF - TA | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | György Nébald |  Hungary |
6 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1.000 | 30 | 11 | 19 | Q |
| 2 | Giovanni Scalzo |  Italy |
7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | .833 | 29 | 17 | 12 | Q |
| 3 | Aleksandr Shirshov |  Unified Team |
4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | .800 | 24 | 10 | 14 | Q |
| 4 | Jörg Kempenich |  Germany |
1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | .800 | 23 | 14 | 9 | Q |
| 5 | Jean-François Lamour |  France |
1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .800 | 24 | 16 | 8 | Q |
| 6 | Antonio García |  Spain |
4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .800 | 22 | 15 | 7 | Q |
| 7 | Felix Becker | Germany |
3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | .800 | 24 | 17 | 7 | Q |
| 8 | Vilmoș Szabo |  Romania |
2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | .800 | 24 | 18 | 6 | Q |
| 9 | Ferdinando Meglio | Italy |
3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .800 | 22 | 18 | 4 | Q |
| 10 | Bence Szabó | Hungary |
5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | .750 | 19 | 12 | 7 | Q |
| 11 | Jean-Philippe Daurelle | France |
5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | .750 | 17 | 12 | 5 | Q |
| 12 | Marco Marin | Italy |
6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 26 | 15 | 11 | Q |
| 13 (15) | Franck Ducheix | France |
7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 27 | 20 | 7 | Q |
| 14 (13) | Grigory Kiriyenko | Unified Team |
6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 24 | 21 | 3 | Q |
| 15 (14) | Zisis Babanasis |  Greece |
7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | .667 | 23 | 21 | 2 | Q |
| 16 | Robert Kościelniakowski |  Poland |
1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | .600 | 20 | 14 | 6 | Q |
| 17 (19) | Csaba Köves | Hungary |
4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | .600 | 21 | 16 | 5 | Q |
| 18 (17) | Jürgen Nolte | Germany |
2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | .600 | 23 | 18 | 5 | Q |
| 19 (18) | Jean-Marie Banos |  Canada |
2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | .600 | 22 | 20 | 2 | Q |
| 20 | Janusz Olech | Poland |
3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | .600 | 20 | 19 | 1 | Q |
| 21 (22) | Marek Gniewkowski | Poland |
2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | .600 | 19 | 22 | -3 | Q |
| 22 (21) | Raúl Peinador | Spain |
6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 24 | 22 | 2 | Q |
| 23 | Zheng Zhaokang |  China |
6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 23 | 22 | 1 | Q |
| 24 | Heorhiy Pohosov | Unified Team |
7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 24 | 23 | 1 | Q |
| 25 (26) | Alexandru Chiculiţă | Romania |
5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | .500 | 18 | 18 | 0 | Q |
| 26 (25) | Mike Lofton |  United States |
7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | .500 | 21 | 23 | -2 | Q |
| 27 | Kirk Zavieh |  Great Britain |
5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | .500 | 14 | 17 | -3 | Q |
| 28 | Yang Zhen | China |
3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | .400 | 19 | 19 | 0 | Q |
| 29 | Ian Williams | Great Britain |
1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | .400 | 20 | 20 | 0 | Q |
| 30 (31) | Gary Fletcher | Great Britain |
4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | .400 | 15 | 16 | -1 | Q |
| 31 (30) | Daniel Grigore | Romania |
1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | .400 | 18 | 19 | -1 | Q |
| 32 | Jean-Paul Banos | Canada |
3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | .400 | 18 | 20 | -2 | Q |
| 33 | Steve Mormando | United States |
2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | .400 | 19 | 21 | -2 | Q |
| 34 | Bob Cottingham | United States |
4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | .400 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Fencing_at_the_1992_Summer_Olympics_–_Men's_sabre
