Date | 16 August 2008 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Guojia Huiyi Zhongxin, Beijing Aolinpike Gongyuan, Beijing | |
Participants | 29 from 8 countries | |
Format | Single-elimination tournament. |
One of the great mysteries of the sport was the lack of success of the Italian team at World Championship level in the years between Olympics. Despite completely dominating the individual event and regularly having three fencers in the world’s top five they had won only a single silver medal in World Championship team competition since 2004. While Italy had an easy win in the first round against Poland, the reigning World Champions, they were defeated by a lightly regarded US team that then went on to upset another higher ranked team in the form of Hungary and became unlikely finalists. The other semi-final saw another underwhelming performance from Italy and they bowed out to Russia by the closest possible margin 22-21. The US held Russia in the very early part of the final but when Russia went on a streak where they won 16 of 17 points the battle was lost and the Russians went on to score a lopsided victory. Erinn Smart’s achievement of winning a silver medal in this event was matched the next day by her brother, Keeth, as part of the US men’s sabre team. The Italians rebounded to win bronze.
Pos | Competitors | NOC | ||||||
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1 | Russian Federation | ![]() | Gold | |||||
Svetlana Boyko • Yevgeniya Lamonova • Viktoriya Nikishina • Aida Shanayeva | ||||||||
2 | United States | ![]() | Silver | |||||
Emily Cross • Erinn Smart • Hanna Thompson | ||||||||
3 | Italy | ![]() | Bronze | |||||
Margherita Granbassi • Ilaria Salvatori • Giovanna Trillini • Valentina Vezzali | ||||||||
4 | Hungary | ![]() | ||||||
Edina Knapek • Aida Mohamed • Virginie Újlaki • Gabriella Varga | ||||||||
5 | Germany | ![]() | ||||||
Carolin Golubytskyi • Anja Schache • Katja Wächter | ||||||||
6 | People's Republic of China | ![]() | ||||||
Huang Jialing • Su Wanwen • Sun Chao • Zhang Lei | ||||||||
7 | Poland | ![]() | ||||||
Karolina Chlewińska • Sylwia Gruchała • Magdalena Mroczkiewicz • Małgorzata Wojtkowiak | ||||||||
8 | Egypt | ![]() | ||||||
Eman El-Gammal • Shaimaa El-Gammal • Iman Shaban |
Date | 16 August 2008 — 9:00 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to semi-finals. |
Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors | NOC | Result | Competitors | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 16 Aug 9:00 | Piste Yellow | Russian Federation | ![]() | 45 – 23 | Egypt | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 16 Aug 9:00 | Piste Red | Italy | ![]() | 37 – 24 | People's Republic of China | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 16 Aug 9:00 | Piste Blue | Hungary | ![]() | 35 – 31 | Germany | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 16 Aug 9:00 | Piste Green | United States | ![]() | 31 – 30 | Poland | ![]() |
Date | 16 August 2008 — 12:00 |
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Format | Winner of each match advanced to final pool. |
Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors | NOC | Result | Competitors | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 16 Aug 12:00 | Piste Yellow | Russian Federation | ![]() | 22 – 21 | Italy | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 16 Aug 12:00 | Piste Blue | United States | ![]() | 35 – 33 | Hungary | ![]() |
Date | 16 August 2008 — 10:30 |
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Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors | NOC | Result | Competitors | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 16 Aug 10:30 | Piste Blue | People's Republic of China | ![]() | 45 – 24 | Egypt | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 16 Aug 10:30 | Piste Yellow | Germany | ![]() | 32 – 27 | Poland | ![]() |
Date | 16 August 2008 |
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Match | Date/Time | Location | Competitors | NOC | Result | Competitors | NOC | |
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Match 1/2 | 16 Aug 19:30 | Piste Final | Russian Federation | ![]() | 28 – 11 | United States | ![]() | |
Match 3/4 | 16 Aug 18:00 | Piste Final | Italy | ![]() | 32 – 23 | Hungary | ![]() | |
Match 5/6 | 16 Aug 13:30 | Piste Yellow | Germany | ![]() | 34 – 28 | People's Republic of China | ![]() | |
Match 7/8 | 16 Aug 13:30 | Piste Blue | Poland | ![]() | 45 – 14 | Egypt | ![]() |