Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's team foil

The men's team foil was one of seven fencing events on the fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme. It was the eighth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 21 to 22 July 1952. 77 fencers from 15 nations competed.^[1]

Men's team foil at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Westend Tennis Hall, Espoo
Dates	21–22 July 1952
Competitors	77 from 15 nations
Medalists
Claude Netter Jéhan Buhan Jacques Lataste Jacques Noël Christian d'Oriola Adrien Rommel  France Edoardo Mangiarotti Manlio Di Rosa Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Giorgio Pellini Renzo Nostini  Italy Endre Tilli Aladár Gerevich Endre Palócz Lajos Maszlay Tibor Berczelly József Sákovics  Hungary
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Results

Source: Official results;^[2] and Sports Reference^[3]

Round 1

The top two nations in each pool advanced to the quarter-finals.

Pool 1
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Hungary	1	0	15	1
2	Belgium	1	0	9	3
3	Saar	0	2	4	24

Pool 2
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Egypt	1	0	9	4
2	Argentina	1	0	8	8
3	Soviet Union	0	2	12	17

Pool 3
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Great Britain	1	0	14	2
2	Italy	1	0	9	0
3	Venezuela	0	2	2	23

Pool 4
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Sweden	1	0	13	3
2	France	1	0	9	0
3	Australia	0	2	3	22

Pool 5
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Germany	1	0	10	6
2	United States	1	0	9	7
3	Romania	0	2	13	19

Round 2

The top two nations in each pool advanced to the semi-finals.

Pool 1
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Egypt	1	0	10	6
2	Italy	1	0	9	1
3	Sweden	0	2	7	19

Pool 2
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	France	1	0	9	2
2	Belgium	1	0	9	7
3	Great Britain	0	2	9	18

Pool 3
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Hungary	2	1	31	17
2	Argentina	2	1	27	21
3	United States	2	1	25	23
4	Germany	0	3	13	35

Semifinals

The top two nations in each pool advanced to the final.

Pool 1
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Hungary	1	0	11	5
2	Italy	1	0	9	1
3	Belgium	0	2	6	20

Pool B
Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	France	1	0	9	2
2	Egypt	1	0	9	7
3	Argentina	0	2	9	18

Final

The final was a round-robin.

Rank	Nation	Wins	Losses	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
	France	3	0	35	11
	Italy	2	1	34	12
	Hungary	1	2	16	31
4	Egypt	0	3	8	39

Results

•  France 8-6  Italy
•  France 12-4  Hungary
•  France 15-1  Egypt
•  Italy 13-3  Hungary
•  Italy 15-1  Egypt
•  Hungary 9-6  Egypt

Rosters

Argentina Fulvio Galimi José Rodríguez Eduardo Sastre Félix Galimi Santiago Massini Australia Charles Stanmore John Fethers Jock Gibson Ivan Lund Belgium Pierre Van Houdt André Verhalle Alex Bourgeois Paul Valcke Édouard Yves Gustave Ballister Egypt Salah Dessouki Mohamed Ali Riad Osman Abdel Hafeez Mahmoud Younes Mohamed Zulficar Hassan Hosni Tawfik France Claude Netter Jéhan Buhan Jacques Lataste Jacques Noël Christian d'Oriola Adrien Rommel

Germany Willy Fascher Kurt Wahl Norman Casmir Julius Eisenecker Siegfried Rossner Great Britain René Paul Luke Wendon Emrys Lloyd Raymond Paul Harry Cooke Allan Jay Hungary Endre Tilli Aladár Gerevich Endre Palócz Lajos Maszlay Tibor Berczelly József Sákovics Italy Edoardo Mangiarotti Manlio Di Rosa Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Giorgio Pellini Renzo Nostini Romania Andrei Vîlcea Ilie Tudor Nicolae Marinescu Vasile Chelaru

Saar Ernst Rau Walter Brödel Karl Bach Günther Knödler Soviet Union Ivan Komarov German Bokun Yulen Uralov Mark Midler Sweden Rolf Magnusson Sven Fahlman Nils Rydström Bo Eriksson United States Silvio Giolito Albie Axelrod Nate Lubell Byron Krieger Daniel Bukantz Hal Goldsmith Venezuela Giovanni Bertorelli Nelson Nieves Juan Kavanagh Gustavo Gutiérrez Augusto Gutiérrez