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Foil, Team, Men

Date24 – 25 July 1976
StatusOlympic
LocationStade d'Hiver de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Participants63 from 14 countries

The Soviet Union had won the 1973-74 World Championships, while France won in 1975. The pool winners in round one were the Soviets, France, Italy, and Poland, the 1972 Olympic Champions. In pool three, Italy defeated West Germany, 9-7, but both teams advanced to the quarter-finals. The round one pool champions all won their quarter-final matches, except for Poland, which was defeated by the West Germans, 9-4. In the semi-finals, Italy and France tied on bouts, 8-8, but Italy won on fewer touches and advanced to the final, where they would have a re-match with West Germany. However, this time the Germans turned the tables, winning the gold medal, 9-6.

One member of the West German team would never compete again at the Olympics, but would become very influential within the Olympic Movement. Thomas Bach became an IOC Member in 1991 and in 2013 became President of the IOC.

PosNumberCompetitorsNOC
1–West GermanyFRGGold
Thomas Bach • Harald Hein • Klaus Reichert • Matthias Behr • Erk Sens-Gorius
2–ItalyITASilver
Carlo Montano • Fabio Dal Zotto • Stefano Simoncelli • Giovanni Battista Coletti • Attilio Calatroni
3–FranceFRABronze
Daniel Revenu • Christian Noël • Didier Flament • Bernard Talvard • Frédéric Pietruszka
4–Soviet UnionURS
Sabirzhan Ruziyev • Aleksandr Romankov • Vladimir Denisov • Vasily Stankovich
5–PolandPOL
Leszek Martewicz • Lech Koziejowski • Ziemek Wojciechowski • Arkadiusz Godel • Marek Dąbrowski
6–Great BritainGBR
Geoffrey Grimmett • Barry Paul • Rob Bruniges • Graham Paul • Nick Bell
=7–HungaryHUN
József Komatits • Csaba Fenyvesi • Lajos Somodi, Jr. • Jenő Kamuti • Sándor Erdős
=7–United StatesUSA
Marty Lang • Ed Ballinger • Ed Wright • Ed Donofrio • Brooke Makler
=9–CubaCUB
Eduardo Jhons • Enrique Salvat • Jorge Garbey • Pedro Hernández
=9–IranIRI
Hossein Niknam • Sarkis Assatourian • Ali Asghar Pashapour-Alamdari • Ahmed Akbari
=9–Hong KongHKG
Matthew Chan • Denis Cunningham • Roger Kam • Edward Ng
=9–JapanJPN
Masanori Kawatsu • Hideaki Kamei • Toshio Jingu • Noriyuki Sato
=9–KuwaitKUW
Ahmed Al-Arbeed • Jamal Ameen • Ali Al-Khawajah • Abdul Nasser Al-Sayegh
=9–RomaniaROU
Petru Kuki • Mihai Țiu • Tudor Petruș • Petrică Buricea
DNS–ArgentinaARG
Daniel Feraud • Fernando Lúpiz • Juan Daniel Pirán • Omar Vergara

Round One

Date24 July 1976 — 08:30-10:00-11:30
FormatTop two teams in each pool advanced to quarter-finals.

Pool #1

PosNumberCompetitorsNOCMatchesBouts
1–Soviet UnionURS2-018-10Q
Sabirzhan Ruziyev • Aleksandr Romankov • Vladimir Denisov • Vasily Stankovich
2–Great BritainGBR1-111-17Q
Geoffrey Grimmett • Barry Paul • Rob Bruniges • Graham Paul • Nick Bell
3–RomaniaROU0-215-17
Petru Kuki • Mihai Țiu • Tudor Petruș • Petrică Buricea
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 JulPiste 2Soviet UnionURS9 – 3Great BritainGBR
Match #224 JulPiste 2Soviet UnionURS9 – 7RomaniaROU
Match #324 JulPiste 2Great BritainGBR8 – 8RomaniaROU

Pool #2

PosNumberCompetitorsNOCMatchesBouts
1–FranceFRA2-020-6Q
Daniel Revenu • Christian Noël • Didier Flament • Bernard Talvard • Frédéric Pietruszka
2–HungaryHUN1-111-15Q
József Komatits • Csaba Fenyvesi • Lajos Somodi, Jr. • Jenő Kamuti • Sándor Erdős
3–CubaCUB0-211-21
Eduardo Jhons • Enrique Salvat • Jorge Garbey • Pedro Hernández
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 JulPiste 4FranceFRA9 – 1HungaryHUN
Match #224 JulPiste 4FranceFRA11 – 5CubaCUB
Match #324 JulPiste 4HungaryHUN10 – 6CubaCUB

Pool #3

PosNumberCompetitorsNOCMatchesBouts
1–ItalyITA3-037-11Q
Carlo Montano • Fabio Dal Zotto • Stefano Simoncelli • Giovanni Battista Coletti • Attilio Calatroni
2–West GermanyFRG2-133-15Q
Thomas Bach • Harald Hein • Klaus Reichert • Matthias Behr • Erk Sens-Gorius
3–JapanJPN1-225-23
Masanori Kawatsu • Hideaki Kamei • Toshio Jingu • Noriyuki Sato
4–KuwaitKUW0-31-47
Ahmed Al-Arbeed • Jamal Ameen • Ali Al-Khawajah • Abdul Nasser Al-Sayegh
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 JulPiste 6ItalyITA9 – 7West GermanyFRG
Match #224 JulPiste 6ItalyITA12 – 4JapanJPN
Match #324 JulPiste 6ItalyITA16 – 0KuwaitKUW
Match #424 JulPiste 5West GermanyFRG11 – 5JapanJPN
Match #524 JulPiste 5West GermanyFRG15 – 1KuwaitKUW
Match #624 JulPiste 8JapanJPN16 – 0KuwaitKUW

Pool #4

PosNumberCompetitorsNOCMatchesBouts
1–PolandPOL3-037-6Q
Leszek Martewicz • Lech Koziejowski • Ziemek Wojciechowski • Arkadiusz Godel • Marek Dąbrowski
2–United StatesUSA2-129-14Q
Marty Lang • Ed Ballinger • Ed Wright • Ed Donofrio
3–IranIRI1-216-32
Hossein Niknam • Sarkis Assatourian • Ali Asghar Pashapour-Alamdari • Ahmed Akbari
4–Hong KongHKG0-39-39
Matthew Chan • Denis Cunningham • Roger Kam • Edward Ng
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 JulPiste 10PolandPOL9 – 2United StatesUSA
Match #224 JulPiste 10PolandPOL13 – 3IranIRI
Match #324 JulPiste 8PolandPOL15 – 1Hong KongHKG
Match #424 JulPiste 10United StatesUSA12 – 4IranIRI
Match #524 JulPiste 8United StatesUSA15 – 1Hong KongHKG
Match #624 JulPiste 11IranIRI9 – 7Hong KongHKG

Quarter-Finals

Date24 July 1976 — 13:00
FormatWinner of each pool advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 JulPiste 2FranceFRA9 – 3Great BritainGBR
Match #224 JulPiste 4ItalyITA9 – 3United StatesUSA
Match #324 JulPiste 8West GermanyFRG9 – 4PolandPOL
Match #424 JulPiste 10Soviet UnionURS9 – 3HungaryHUN

Semi-Finals

Date25 July 1976 — 13:00
FormatWinner of each pool advanced to final.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #125 JulPiste 2ItalyITA8 – 8FranceFRA
Match #225 JulPiste 8West GermanyFRG9 – 7Soviet UnionURS

Classification Round 5-8

Date25 July 1976 — 14:00
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #125 JulPiste 10PolandPOL9 – 3HungaryHUN
Match #225 JulPiste 4Great BritainGBR8 – 7United StatesUSA

Final Pool

Date25 July 1976 — 18:00
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/225 JulPiste FinalWest GermanyFRG9 – 6ItalyITA
Match 3/425 JulPiste FinalFranceFRA9 – 4Soviet UnionURS
Match 5/625 JulPiste 2PolandPOL9 – 1Great BritainGBR