title: Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's team sabre
text: # Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's team sabre
  
  The women's team sabre fencing competition at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 14 at the Olympic Green Convention Centre.
  
  The team sabre competition consisted of a three-round single-elimination bracket with a bronze medal match between the two semifinal losers and classification semifinals and finals for 5th to 8th places. Teams consist of three members each, and a substitute. Matches consist of nine bouts, with every fencer on one team facing each fencer on the other team. Scoring carried over between bouts with a total of 45 touches being the team goal. Bouts lasted until one team reached the target multiple of 5 touches. For example, if the first bout ended with a score of 5–3, that score would remain into the next bout and the second bout would last until one team reached 10 touches. Bouts also had a maximum time of three minutes each; if the final bout ended before either team reached 45 touches, the team leading at that point won. A tie at that point would result in an additional one-minute sudden-death time period. This sudden-death period was further modified by the selection of a draw-winner beforehand; if neither fencer scored a touch during the minute, the predetermined draw-winner won the bout.
  
  ## Draw
  
  ### Finals
  
  | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | United States | 45 | | | | | | |
  | 8 | South Africa | 8 | | | | | | |
  | 8 | South Africa | 8 | 1 | United States | 39 | | | |
  | | | | 5 | Ukraine | 45 | | | |
  | 5 | Ukraine | 45 | 5 | Ukraine | 45 | | | |
  | 4 | Russia | 34 | | | | | | |
  | 4 | Russia | 34 | | | | 5 | Ukraine | 45 |
  | | | | | | | 3 | China | 44 |
  | 3 | China | 45 | | | | | | | 3 | China | 44 |
  | 6 | Poland | 25 | | | |
  | 6 | Poland | 25 | 3 | China | 45 | Third place | Third place | Third place |
  | | | | 2 | France | 38 |
  | 7 | Canada | 22 | 2 | France | 38 | 1 | United States | 45 |
  | 2 | France | 45 | | | | 2 | France | 38 |
  
  ### Classification 5- 8
  
  | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-6 | Placement 5-6 | Placement 5-6 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 8 | South Africa | 13 | | | |
  | 5 | Russia | 45 | | | |
  | 5 | Russia | 45 | 5 | Russia | 45 |
  | | | | 6 | Poland | 36 |
  | 6 | Poland | 45 | 6 | Poland | 36 |
  | 7 | Canada | 44 | Placement 7-8 | Placement 7-8 | Placement 7-8 |
  | | | | 8 | South Africa | 16 |
  | | | | 7 | Canada | 45 |
  
  ## Final classification
  
  | Rank | Team | Athlete |
  | - | - | - |
  | | Ukraine | Olha Zhovnir Olga Kharlan Halyna Pundyk Olena Khomrova |
  | | China | Bao Yingying Huang Haiyang Ni Hong Tan Xue |
  | | United States | Sada Jacobson Becca Ward Mariel Zagunis |
  | 4 | France | Anne-Lise Touya Léonore Perrus Carole Vergne Solenn Mary |
  | 5 | Russia | Ekaterina Fedorkina Elena Nechaeva Ekaterina Dyachenko Sofiya Velikaya |
  | 6 | Poland | Aleksandra Socha Bogna Jóźwiak Irena Więckowska |
  | 7 | Canada | Olga Ovtchinnikova Sandra Sassine Julie Cloutier Wendy Saschenbrecker |
  | 8 | South Africa | Elvira Wood Jyoti Chetty Adele du Plooy Shelley Gosher |
  