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- Republic of Korea and Hungary have faced each other in the final of the men’s team sabre event at the world championships in 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023, and at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Hungarians only beat the Koreans in 2023 in these finals.
- Korea won the men’s team sabre gold medal at each of the last three Olympic Games this event was on the programme: London 2012, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024. Korea reached the final of this event at each of the past five world championships (2017-2023). The Koreans won four of these finals.
- Hungary (G22-S15-B11) has won the most world titles (22) and most medals (48) in the men’s team sabre event at the world championships. Hungary won the world title in 2023. It can win successive gold medals in this event for the first time since it won in 1991 and 1993. The Hungarians defeated Italy in the final at the European championships in Genoa in June.
- Italy won its last world title in this event in 2015. Italy’s 34 medals in this event (G6-S19-B9) are the second-most behind Hungary’s 48.
- France won its last world championships medal in the men’s team sabre event in 2007 (silver). This is the longest active medal drought for France in any fencing event at the world championships.
- United States claimed its first world championships medal in this event in 2023 (bronze). Colin Heathcock (USA) was 17 years and 220 days old when he claimed bronze in this event in 2023. He became the youngest male fencer to win a world championships medal in any event since 1985. In 2025, USA won this event at the (senior) Pan American championships in Rio de Janeiro, and at the junior world championships in Wuxi. Colin Heathcock and William Morrill (USA) competed for USA in both competitions.
- Japan won the men’s team sabre at the Asian championships in June this year. It has never won a world championships medal in a men’s sabre event.
- Egypt won the men’s team sabre at the African championships in Lagos in June. Egypt claimed three world championships medals in this event, all bronze medals, in 1947, 1949 and 1950.
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- The last men’s team sabre final at the world championships without Republic of Korea or Hungary was in 2015, when Italy defeated Russia in Moscow.
- Republic of Korea defeated Hungary in the final of the men’s team sabre World Cup event in Tbilisi in February 2024.
- Aladár Gerevich (HUN) won 11 gold medals in the men’s team sabre event with Hungary. This is the most world titles for a fencer in a specific event (Italy’s Valentina Vezzali won 10 world titles in the women’s team foil event).
- At the Paris 2024 Games, Sanguk Oh (KOR) became the first man in this century to win the gold medal in the sabre individual and team events at the same Olympic Games. He is also the last man to achieve this at the world championships, in 2019.