Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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[]

Freestyle[]

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[]

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[]

115 wrestlers from 14 nations competed.

Belgium (4)
Bohemia (4)
Canada (1)
Denmark (11)
Finland (4)
Germany (1)
Great Britain (53)

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	3	4	4	11
2	United States (USA)	2	0	0	2
3	Finland (FIN)	1	1	1	3
4	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
5	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
5	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
7	Russian Empire (RU1)	0	2	0	2
8	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
9	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	3	3
10	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		9	9	9	27

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

References[]

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

Sources[]

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.

Coordinates: 51°30′49″N 0°13′39″E / 51.5136°N 0.2274°E / 51.5136; 0.2274

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

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