Fencing at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's sabre
The men's sabre was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1976 Summer Olympics programme. It was the eighteenth appearance of the event. The competition was held from July 21 to 22, 1976. 46 fencers from 18 nations competed.
Competition format
The 1976 tournament returned to a mix of pool and knockout rounds similar to that used in 1968, after the 1972 edition briefly used a pool-only format. The competition included three pool rounds, followed by a double-elimination knockout round, finishing with a final pool round. In each pool round, the fencers competed in a round-robin.Bouts in the round-robin pools were to 5 touches; bouts in the double-elimination round were to 10 touches. Repechages were not used in the first three rounds, but were used to determine medalists if necessary in the final.
Results
Round 1
Round 1 Pool A
Round 1 Pool B
Round 1 Pool C
Round 1 Pool D
Round 1 Pool E
Round 1 Pool F
Round 1 Pool G
Round 1 Pool H
Round 1 Pool I
Round 2
Round 2 Pool A
Round 2 Pool B
Round 2 Pool C
Round 2 Pool D
Round 2 Pool E
Round 2 Pool F
Round 3
Round 3 Pool A
Round 3 Pool B
Round 3 Pool C
Round 3 Pool D
Double elimination rounds
Winners brackets
Winners group 1
Winners group 2
Winners group 3
Winners group 4
Losers brackets
Losers group 1
Losers group 2
Final round
Final classification
| Fencer | Country |
| Viktor Krovopuskov | |
| Vladimir Nazlymov | |
| Viktor Sidyak | |
| Ioan Pop | |
| Mario Aldo Montano | |
| Michele Maffei | |
| Francisco de la Torre | |
| Imre Gedővári | |
| Jacek Bierkowski | |
| Manuel Ortiz | |
| Dan Irimiciuc | |
| Angelo Arcidiacono | |
| Paul Apostol | |
| Peter Westbrook | |
| Józef Nowara | |
| Patrick Quivrin | |
| Tamás Kovács | |
| Péter Marót | |
| Régis Bonissent | |
| Tycho Weißgerber | |
| Miroslav Dudekov | |
| Anani Mikhaylov | |
| Leszek Jabłonowski | |
| Cornel Marin | |
| Guzman Salazar | |
| Marcelo Méndez | |
| Richard Cohen | |
| Stephen Kaplan | |
| Philippe Bena | |
| Marc Lavoie | |
| John Deanfield | |
| Eli Sukunda | |
| Taweewat Hurapan | |
| Peter Mather | |
| Ismail Pashapour-Alamdari | |
| Peter Urban | |
| Ahmed Eskandarpour | |
| Trayan Dimitrov | |
| César Bejarano | |
| José María Casanovas | |
| Hanns Brandstätter | |
| Juan Gavajda | |
| Abdul Hamid Fathi | |
| Sutipong Santitevagul | |
| Royengyot Srivorapongpant | |
| Kam Roger |