Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's sabre


The men's sabre was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twentyfirst appearance of the event. The competition was held from 22 to 23 September 1988. 40 fencers from 18 nations competed.

Competition format

The 1988 tournament used a three-phase format very similar to that of 1984. Unlike the foil and épée competitions, the sabre tournament kept the size of the second phase round at 16 fencers.
The first phase was a multi-round round-robin pool play format; each fencer in a pool faced each other fencer in that pool once. There were three pool rounds:
The second phase was a truncated double-elimination tournament. Four fencers advanced to the final round through the winners brackets and four more advanced via the repechage.
The final phase was a single elimination tournament with a bronze medal match.
Bouts in the round-robin pools were to 5 touches; bouts in the double-elimination and final rounds were to 10 touches.

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 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

Repechages

Repechage 1
Repechage 2
Repechage 3
Repechage 4

Final round

Final classification

FencerCountry
Jean-François Lamour
Janusz Olech
Giovanni Scalzo
Philippe Delrieu
György Nébald
Heorhiy Pohosov
Felix Becker
Jürgen Nolte
Andrey Alshan
Gianfranco Dalla Barba
Pierre Guichot
Tadeusz Piguła
Vasil Etropolski
Marco Marin
Imre Gedővári
Steve Mormando
Sergey Mindirgasov
Robert Kościelniakowski
Imre Bujdosó
Peter Westbrook
Khristo Etropolski
Jean-Paul Banos
Stephan Thönnessen
Zheng Zhaokang
Jean-Marie Banos
Antonio García
Jia Guihua
Lee Byeong-Nam
Wulfe Balk
Wang Zhiming
Nikolay Marincheshki
Mike Lofton
Kim Sang-Uk
Mark Slade
Olivier Martini
Lee Uk-Jae
Percival Alger
Pedro Bleyer
Yan Wing-Shean
Régis Avila