Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's sabre

This was the second appearance of the event, which is the only fencing event to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The competition had a much smaller, yet also more international, field than the other 1900 fencing events; less than half of the entrants were French.^[2]

France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland all made their debut in the men's sabre. Austria was the only nation to have competed at both the 1896 and 1900 appearances of the event.

The event used a three-round format (quarterfinals, semifinals, final). Each round used round-robin pool play with actual results counting toward placement (as opposed to foil, which had multiple rounds of jury selection rather than results being used). Standard sabre rules were used, except that the target area was the entire body (rather than being limited to above the waist).^[2]

• Quarterfinals: The 23 fencers competed in four round-robin pools of 5 or 6 fencers each. The top four in each pool advanced to the semifinals. (Because of withdrawals, the fifth-placed fencer in two of the pools advanced).
• Semifinals: The 16 fencers from the quarterfinals were divided into two pools of 8 fencers each. Each pool played a round robin. The top four fencers in each semifinal pool advanced to the final.
• Final: The final pool had 8 fencers.

The fencers competed in four round-robin pools in the first round on 19 and 20 June. The top four fencers in each pool advanced to the semifinals. Which fencers competed in which pools is unknown.

Fencer	Nation	Notes
Maurice Boisdon	France	Q
Clément de Boissière	France	Q
Gaston Dutertre	France	Q[3]
Georges de la Falaise	France	Q
Giunio Fedreghini	Italy	Q
Siegfried Flesch	Austria	Q
Mauricio, 4th Duke of Gor	Spain	Q
Harstein	Austria	Q
Hugó Hoch	Hungary	Q
Pierre Georges Louis d'Hugues	France	Q
Gyula von Iványi	Hungary	Q
Léon Lécuyer	France	Q[3]
Camillo Müller	Austria	Q
Amon Ritter von Gregurich	Hungary	Q
Heinrich von Tenner	Austria	Q
Léon Thiébaut	France	Q
Stagliano	Italy	q[3]
Miklós Todoresku	Hungary	q[3]
François de Boffa	Switzerland
Émile Lafourcade-Cortina	France
Alfons Schöne	Germany
Casimir Semelaignes	France
Fernand Semelaignes	France

The 16 remaining fencers were divided into two pools of 8. They played round-robin tournaments on 22 June, with four advancing from each pool to the final.

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Notes
1	Gyula von Iványi	Hungary	Q
2	Camillo Müller	Austria	Q
3	Siegfried Flesch	Austria	Q
4	Georges de la Falaise	France	Q
5–8	Maurice Boisdon	France
	Harstein	Austria
	Pierre Georges Louis d'Hugues	France
	Giunio Fedreghini	Italy

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Notes
1	Amon Ritter von Gregurich	Hungary	Q
2	Heinrich von Tenner	Austria	Q
3	Clément de Boissière	France	Q
4	Léon Thiébaut	France	Q
5–8	Hugó Hoch	Hungary
	Mauricio, 4th Duke of Gor	Spain
	Stagliano	Italy
	Miklós Todoresku	Hungary

The final was a round-robin among the 8 remaining fencers.

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Losses
	Georges de la Falaise	France	6	1
	Léon Thiébaut	France	5	2
	Siegfried Flesch	Austria	4	3
4	Amon Ritter von Gregurich	Hungary	4	3
5	Gyula von Iványi	Hungary	3	4
6	Clément de Boissière	France	3	4
7	Heinrich von Tenner	Austria	2	5
8	Camillo Müller	Austria	1	6