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Foil, Team, Men

Date	24 – 25 July 1976
Status	Olympic
Location	Stade d'Hiver de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Participants	63 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.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC
1	West Germany	FRG	Gold
	Thomas Bach • Harald Hein • Klaus Reichert • Matthias Behr • Erk Sens-Gorius
2	Italy	ITA	Silver
	Carlo Montano • Fabio Dal Zotto • Stefano Simoncelli • Giovanni Battista Coletti • Attilio Calatroni
3	France	FRA	Bronze
	Daniel Revenu • Christian Noël • Didier Flament • Bernard Talvard • Frédéric Pietruszka
4	Soviet Union	URS
	Sabirzhan Ruziyev • Aleksandr Romankov • Vladimir Denisov • Vasily Stankovich
5	Poland	POL
	Leszek Martewicz • Lech Koziejowski • Ziemek Wojciechowski • Arkadiusz Godel • Marek Dąbrowski
6	Great Britain	GBR
	Geoffrey Grimmett • Barry Paul • Rob Bruniges • Graham Paul • Nick Bell
=7	Hungary	HUN
	József Komatits • Csaba Fenyvesi • Lajos Somodi, Jr. • Jenő Kamuti • Sándor Erdős
=7	United States	USA
	Marty Lang • Ed Ballinger • Ed Wright • Ed Donofrio • Brooke Makler
=9	Cuba	CUB
	Eduardo Jhons • Enrique Salvat • Jorge Garbey • Pedro Hernández
=9	Iran	IRI
	Hossein Niknam • Sarkis Assatourian • Ali Asghar Pashapour-Alamdari • Ahmed Akbari
=9	Hong Kong	HKG
	Matthew Chan • Denis Cunningham • Roger Kam • Edward Ng
=9	Japan	JPN
	Masanori Kawatsu • Hideaki Kamei • Toshio Jingu • Noriyuki Sato
=9	Kuwait	KUW
	Ahmed Al-Arbeed • Jamal Ameen • Ali Al-Khawajah • Abdul Nasser Al-Sayegh
=9	Romania	ROU
	Petru Kuki • Mihai Țiu • Tudor Petruș • Petrică Buricea
DNS	Argentina	ARG
	Daniel Feraud • Fernando Lúpiz • Juan Daniel Pirán • Omar Vergara

Round One (24 July 1976 — 08:30-10:00-11:30)

Top two teams in each pool advanced to quarter-finals.

Pool 1

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	MW	ML	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Soviet Union	URS	2	0	18	10	Q
	Sabirzhan Ruziyev • Aleksandr Romankov • Vladimir Denisov • Vasily Stankovich
2	Great Britain	GBR	1	1	11	17	Q
	Geoffrey Grimmett • Barry Paul • Rob Bruniges • Graham Paul • Nick Bell
3	Romania	ROU	0	2	15	17
	Petru Kuki • Mihai Țiu • Tudor Petruș • Petrică Buricea

Match #1	URS	9 – 3	GBR
Match #2	URS	9 – 7	ROU
Match #3	GBR	8 – 8	ROU

Pool 2

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	MW	ML	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	France	FRA	2	0	20	6	Q
	Daniel Revenu • Christian Noël • Didier Flament • Bernard Talvard • Frédéric Pietruszka
2	Hungary	HUN	1	1	11	15	Q
	József Komatits • Csaba Fenyvesi • Lajos Somodi, Jr. • Jenő Kamuti • Sándor Erdős
3	Cuba	CUB	0	2	11	21
	Eduardo Jhons • Enrique Salvat • Jorge Garbey • Pedro Hernández

Match #1	FRA	9 – 1	HUN
Match #2	FRA	11 – 5	CUB
Match #3	HUN	10 – 6	CUB

Pool 3

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	MW	ML	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Italy	ITA	3	0	37	11	Q
	Carlo Montano • Fabio Dal Zotto • Stefano Simoncelli • Giovanni Battista Coletti • Attilio Calatroni
2	West Germany	FRG	2	1	33	15	Q
	Thomas Bach • Harald Hein • Klaus Reichert • Matthias Behr • Erk Sens-Gorius
3	Japan	JPN	1	2	25	23
	Masanori Kawatsu • Hideaki Kamei • Toshio Jingu • Noriyuki Sato
4	Kuwait	KUW	0	3	1	47
	Ahmed Al-Arbeed • Jamal Ameen • Ali Al-Khawajah • Abdul Nasser Al-Sayegh

Match #1	ITA	9 – 7	FRG
Match #2	ITA	12 – 4	JPN
Match #3	ITA	16 – 0	KUW
Match #4	FRG	11 – 5	JPN
Match #5	FRG	15 – 1	KUW
Match #6	JPN	16 – 0	KUW

Pool 4

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	MW	ML	Bouts Won	Bouts Lost
1	Poland	POL	3	0	37	6	Q
	Leszek Martewicz • Lech Koziejowski • Ziemek Wojciechowski • Arkadiusz Godel • Marek Dąbrowski
2	United States	USA	2	1	29	14	Q
	Marty Lang • Ed Ballinger • Ed Wright • Ed Donofrio
3	Iran	IRI	1	2	16	32
	Hossein Niknam • Sarkis Assatourian • Ali Asghar Pashapour-Alamdari • Ahmed Akbari
4	Hong Kong	HKG	0	3	9	39
	Matthew Chan • Denis Cunningham • Roger Kam • Edward Ng

Match #1	POL	9 – 2	USA
Match #2	POL	13 – 3	IRI
Match #3	POL	15 – 1	HKG
Match #4	USA	12 – 4	IRI
Match #5	USA	15 – 1	HKG
Match #6	IRI	9 – 7	HKG

Quarter-Finals (24 July 1976 — 13:00)

Winner of each pool advanced to semi-finals.

Match #1	FRA	9 – 3	GBR
Match #2	ITA	9 – 3	USA
Match #3	FRG	9 – 4	POL
Match #4	URS	9 – 3	HUN

Semi-Finals (25 July 1976 — 13:00)

Winner of each pool advanced to final.

Match #1	ITA	8 – 8	FRA
Match #2	FRG	9 – 7	URS

Classification Round 5-8 (25 July 1976 — 14:00)

Match #1	POL	9 – 3	HUN
Match #2	GBR	8 – 7	USA

Final Pool (25 July 1976 — 18:00)

Match 1-2	FRG	9 – 6	ITA
Match 3-4	FRA	9 – 4	URS
Match 5-6	POL	9 – 1	GBR