title: Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre
text: # Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team sabre
  
  The men's team sabre fencing competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing took place on August 17 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. 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 | France | 45 | | | | | | |
  | 8 | Egypt | 31 | | | | | | |
  | 8 | Egypt | 31 | 1 | France | 45 | | | |
  | | | | 4 | Italy | 41 | | | |
  | 5 | Belarus | 39 | 4 | Italy | 41 | | | |
  | 4 | Italy | 45 | | | | | | |
  | 4 | Italy | 45 | | | | 1 | France | 45 |
  | | | | | | | 7 | United States | 37 |
  | 3 | Russia | 45 | | | | | | | 7 | United States | 37 |
  | 6 | China | 36 | | | |
  | 6 | China | 36 | 3 | Russia | 44 | Third place | Third place | Third place |
  | | | | 7 | United States | 45 |
  | 7 | United States | 45 | 7 | United States | 45 | 4 | Italy | 45 |
  | 2 | Hungary | 44 | | | | 3 | Russia | 44 |
  
  ### Classification 5- 8
  
  | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-6 | Placement 5-6 | Placement 5-6 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 8 | Egypt | 22 | | | |
  | 5 | Belarus | 45 | | | |
  | 5 | Belarus | 45 | 5 | Belarus | 45 |
  | | | | 6 | China | 39 |
  | 6 | China | 45 | 6 | China | 39 |
  | 2 | Hungary | 38 | Placement 7-8 | Placement 7-8 | Placement 7-8 |
  | | | | 8 | Egypt | 25 |
  | | | | 2 | Hungary | 45 |
  
  ## Final classification
  
  | Rank | Team | Athlete |
  | - | - | - |
  | | France | Julien Pillet Boris Sanson Nicolas Lopez |
  | | United States | Tim Morehouse Jason Rogers Keeth Smart James Williams |
  | | Italy | Aldo Montano Luigi Tarantino Giampiero Pastore Diego Occhiuzzi |
  | 4 | Russia | Nikolay Kovalev Stanislav Pozdnyakov Aleksey Yakimenko |
  | 5 | Belarus | Aliaksandr Buikevich Valery Pryiemka Dmitri Lapkes |
  | 6 | China | Huang Yaojiang Zhou Hanming Wang Jingzhi Zhong Man |
  | 7 | Hungary | Balázs Lontay Zsolt Nemcsik Áron Szilágyi Tamás Decsi |
  | 8 | Egypt | Mahmoud Samir Gamal Fathy Shadi Talaat Tamim Ghazy |
  