The men's team sabre was one of seven fencing events on the fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme. It was the tenth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 3 December 1956. 43 fencers from 8 nations competed. Competition format The competition used a pool play format, with each team facing the other teams in the pool in a round robin. Each match consisted of 16 bouts, with 4 fencers on one team facing each of the 4 fencers on the other team. Bouts were to 5 touches. Total touches against were the tie-breaker if a match was tied 8 bouts to 8. However, only as much fencing was done as was necessary to determine advancement, so some matches never occurred and some matches were stopped before the full 16 bouts were fenced if the teams advancing from the pool could be determined. Rosters Australia Leslie Fadgyas Alexander Martonffy Emeric Santo Leslie Kovacs Sandor Szoke France Claude Gamot Jacques Lefèvre Bernard Morel Jacques Roulot Great Britain Olgierd Porebski Bill Hoskyns Ralph Cooperman Allan Jay Raymond Paul Hungary Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Pál Kovács Attila Keresztes Jenő Hámori Dániel Magay Italy Roberto Ferrari Domenico Pace Mario Ravagnan Giuseppe Comini Luigi Narduzzi Gastone Darè Poland Jerzy Pawłowski Wojciech Zabłocki Marian Kuszewski Ryszard Zub Andrzej Piątkowski Zygmunt Pawlas Soviet Union Lev Kuznetsov Yakov Rylsky Yevhen Cherepovsky David Tyshler Leonid Bogdanov United States Tibor Nyilas George Worth Abram Cohen Rex Dyer Allan Kwartler Norman Cohn-Armitage Results Round 1 The top two nations in each pool advanced to the semifinal. Pool 1 Colombia had entered, but did not appear. This left Hungary and the United States to advance without competition. Pool 2 Poland defeated Great Britain 12–4. Italy defeated Great Britain on touches against (62–66) after each team won 8 bouts in their match. No match between Poland and Italy was necessary. Pool 3 The Soviet Union defeated Australia 14–2. When France took a 9–4 lead over Australia to clinch the match, the competition ended as Australia was certain to be the third-place team and eliminated. Semifinals The top two nations in each pool advanced to the final. Semifinal 1 France defeated the Soviet Union 9–7 and the Soviet Union defeated Italy 9–7. Italy needed to beat France by that same score, then, to avoid elimination; when France took an 8–6 lead, that became impossible and Italy was set at 3rd place