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Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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Wrestling
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueWhite City Stadium
Dates20–25 July 1908
No. of events9 (9 men, 0 women)
Competitors115 from 14 nations
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, nine wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were four weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and five weight classes in freestyle wrestling.[1]

Greco-Roman reappeared for the first time since the 1896 Summer Olympics, with weight classes for the first time. The number of classes in freestyle was reduced from 7 to 5, with the light fly, fly, and welterweight classes dropped but the middleweight added. The addition of the 4 Greco-Roman classes brought the total number of events in wrestling up to 9.


Medal summary

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Freestyle

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Bantamweight
details
George Mehnert
 United States
William J. Press
 Great Britain
Aubert Côté
 Canada
Featherweight
details
George Dole
 United States
James Slim
 Great Britain
William McKie
 Great Britain
Lightweight
details
George de Relwyskow
 Great Britain
William Wood
 Great Britain
Albert Gingell
 Great Britain
Middleweight
details
Stanley Bacon
 Great Britain
George de Relwyskow
 Great Britain
Frederick Beck
 Great Britain
Heavyweight
details
Con O'Kelly
 Great Britain
Jacob Gundersen
 Norway
Edward Barrett
 Great Britain

Greco-Roman

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Lightweight
details
Enrico Porro
 Italy
Nikolay Orlov
 Russian Empire
Arvo Lindén
 Finland
Middleweight
details
Frithiof Mårtensson
 Sweden
Mauritz Andersson
 Sweden
Anders Andersen
 Denmark
Light heavyweight
details
Verner Weckman
 Finland
Yrjö Saarela
 Finland
Carl Jensen
 Denmark
Super heavyweight
details
Richárd Weisz
 Hungary
Aleksandr Petrov
 Russian Empire
Søren Marinus Jensen
 Denmark

Participating nations

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115 wrestlers from 14 nations competed.

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain (GBR)34411
2 United States (USA)2002
3 Finland (FIN)1113
4 Sweden (SWE)1102
5 Hungary (HUN)1001
 Italy (ITA)1001
7 Russian Empire (RU1)0202
8 Norway (NOR)0101
9 Denmark (DEN)0033
10 Canada (CAN)0011
Totals (10 entries)99927

Belgium, Bohemia, Germany, and the Netherlands also sent wrestlers, but did not win any medals.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2019.

Sources

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  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
  • De Wael, Herman (2001). "Freestyle Wrestling 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 28 May 2006.

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