Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
| Wrestling at the Games of the IV Olympiad | |
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| Venue | White City Stadium |
| Dates | 20–25 July 1908 |
| No. of events | 9 (9 men, 0 women) |
| Competitors | 115 from 14 nations |
| Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics | |
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| Greco-Roman | |
| Lightweight | men |
| Middleweight | men |
| Light heavyweight | men |
| Super heavyweight | men |
| Freestyle | |
| Bantamweight | men |
| Featherweight | men |
| Lightweight | men |
| Middleweight | men |
| Heavyweight | men |
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
[edit]Freestyle
[edit]| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bantamweight |
George Mehnert United States |
William J. Press Great Britain |
Aubert Côté Canada |
| Featherweight |
George Dole United States |
James Slim Great Britain |
William McKie Great Britain |
| Lightweight |
George de Relwyskow Great Britain |
William Wood Great Britain |
Albert Gingell Great Britain |
| Middleweight |
Stanley Bacon Great Britain |
George de Relwyskow Great Britain |
Frederick Beck Great Britain |
| Heavyweight |
Con O'Kelly Great Britain |
Jacob Gundersen Norway |
Edward Barrett Great Britain |
Greco-Roman
[edit]| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightweight |
Enrico Porro Italy |
Nikolay Orlov Russian Empire |
Arvo Lindén Finland |
| Middleweight |
Frithiof Mårtensson Sweden |
Mauritz Andersson Sweden |
Anders Andersen Denmark |
| Light heavyweight |
Verner Weckman Finland |
Yrjö Saarela Finland |
Carl Jensen Denmark |
| Heavyweight |
Richárd Weisz Hungary |
Aleksandr Petrov Russian Empire |
Søren Marinus Jensen Denmark |
Participating nations
[edit]115 wrestlers from 14 nations competed.
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Medal table
[edit]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Britain | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| 2 | United States | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Finland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Sweden | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | Russian Empire | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 |  Denmark | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 | |
Belgium, Bohemia, Germany, and the Netherlands also sent wrestlers, but did not win any medals.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
Sources
[edit]- 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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