[3] The competition format continued the pool play round-robin from prior years.

[4] Brazil withdrew before competing, leaving Austria and Sweden to advance by default.

The second pair of matches saw the United States win again, this time over Turkey, while Switzerland defeated Yugoslavia.

This resulted in the United States being guaranteed advancement while Yugoslavia was eliminated (and thus the two did not face each other).

Sports-reference gives the result as a win for the United States and loss for Turkey, with 0–0 individual bouts.

In the second, the winners each won again to end the competition: Poland prevailed over Austria by touches received 56–60 (8–8 bouts) and Italy beat France with the match stopped at 9–2.

In the second set of matches, Hungary again won 15–1, this time over the Netherlands, while Germany defeated the United States 9–7.

In the final set of matches, Hungary beat the United States 14–2 and Germany defeated the Netherlands 9–3 with both of the winners earning advancement.

In the second, the winners each won again: Hungary prevailed over Poland (10–1) and Italy beat Germany (9–2).

The Hungary–Italy match was a de facto gold medal final; Hungary reached 9 wins after 15 bouts to take the victory (9–6).