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
Event 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
Event 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
Super heavyweight
 Richárd Weisz
 Hungary		 Aleksandr Petrov
 Russian Empire		 Søren Marinus Jensen
 Denmark

Participating nations

115 wrestlers from 14 nations competed.

Medal table
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 nations)99927

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

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See also

References
  1. "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.

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