Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight
The men's freestyle light heavyweight competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki took place from 20 July to 23 July at Messuhalli. Nations were limited to one competitor.[1]
Men's freestyle light heavyweight at the Games of the XV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Messuhalli | ||||||||||||
Dates | 20–23 July | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 13 from 13 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics | |
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Greco-Roman | |
Fly | men |
Bantam | men |
Feather | men |
Light | men |
Welter | men |
Middle | men |
Light heavy | men |
Heavy | men |
Freestyle | |
Fly | men |
Bantam | men |
Feather | men |
Light | men |
Welter | men |
Middle | men |
Light heavy | men |
Heavy | men |
Competition format
This freestyle wrestling competition continued to use the "bad points" elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, removing the slight modification introduced in 1936 and used until 1948 (which had a reduced penalty for a loss by 2–1 decision). Each round featured all wrestlers pairing off and wrestling one bout (with one wrestler having a bye if there were an odd number). The loser received 3 points. The winner received 1 point if the win was by decision and 0 points if the win was by fall. At the end of each round, any wrestler with at least 5 points was eliminated. This elimination continued until the medal rounds, which began when 3 wrestlers remained. These 3 wrestlers each faced each other in a round-robin medal round (with earlier results counting, if any had wrestled another before); record within the medal round determined medals, with bad points breaking ties.[2][1]
Results
Round 1
- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Viking Palm | ![]() | Decision, 3–0 | Kevin Coote | ![]() |
Henry Wittenberg | ![]() | Fall | Rodolfo Padron | ![]() |
Willy Lardon | ![]() | Fall | Bob Steckle | ![]() |
Jan Theron | ![]() | Decision, 2–1 | Shrirang Jadhav | ![]() |
August Englas | ![]() | Decision, 3–0 | Adil Atan | ![]() |
Max Leichter | ![]() | Decision, 3–0 | Paavo Sepponen | ![]() |
Abbas Zandi | ![]() | Bye | N/A | N/A |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | Willy Lardon | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 | Henry Wittenberg | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 | Abbas Zandi | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | August Englas | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 |
4 | Max Leichter | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 |
4 | Viking Palm | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 |
4 | Jan Theron | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 |
8 | Adil Atan | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 3 |
8 | Kevin Coote | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 3 |
8 | Shrirang Jadhav | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 3 |
8 | Rodolfo Padron | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 3 |
8 | Paavo Sepponen | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 3 |
8 | Bob Steckle | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Round 2
Lardon withdrew after his bout.
- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Abbas Zandi | ![]() | Decision, 3–0 | Kevin Coote | ![]() |
Viking Palm | ![]() | Fall | Rodolfo Padron | ![]() |
Henry Wittenberg | ![]() | Fall | Willy Lardon | ![]() |
Jan Theron | ![]() | Decision, 3–0 | Bob Steckle | ![]() |
August Englas | ![]() | Fall | Shrirang Jadhav | ![]() |
Adil Atan | ![]() | Fall | Max Leichter | ![]() |
Paavo Sepponen | ![]() | Bye | N/A | N/A |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | Henry Wittenberg | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | August Englas | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2 | Viking Palm | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2 | Abbas Zandi | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 |
5 | Jan Theron | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 |
6 | Adil Atan | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 |
6 | Paavo Sepponen | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 |
8 | Max Leichter | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 4 |
9 | Willy Lardon | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 3* |
10 | Kevin Coote | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 6 |
10 | Shrirang Jadhav | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 6 |
10 | Rodolfo Padron | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 6 |
10 | Bob Steckle | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Round 3
- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Abbas Zandi | ![]() | Decision, 3–0 | Paavo Sepponen | ![]() |
Viking Palm | ![]() | Decision, 3–0 | Henry Wittenberg | ![]() |
Adil Atan | ![]() | Fall | Jan Theron | ![]() |
August Englas | ![]() | Fall | Max Leichter | ![]() |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | August Englas | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2 | Viking Palm | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2 | Abbas Zandi | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 |
4 | Adil Atan | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 |
4 | Henry Wittenberg | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 3 |
6 | Jan Theron | ![]() | 2 | 3 | 5 |
7 | Paavo Sepponen | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 6 |
8 | Max Leichter | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Round 4
- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Viking Palm | ![]() | Decision, 2–1 | Abbas Zandi | ![]() |
Henry Wittenberg | ![]() | Decision, 3–0 | August Englas | ![]() |
Adil Atan | ![]() | Bye | N/A | N/A |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | Adil Atan | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 |
1 | Viking Palm | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 3 |
3 | August Englas | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 4 |
4 | Henry Wittenberg | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 4 |
5 | Abbas Zandi | ![]() | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Round 5
- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Henry Wittenberg | ![]() | Fall | Adil Atan | ![]() |
Viking Palm | ![]() | Decision, 2–1 | August Englas | ![]() |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Start | Earned | Total |
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1 | Viking Palm | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 4 |
1 | Henry Wittenberg | ![]() | 4 | 0 | 4 |
3 | Adil Atan | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 6 |
4 | August Englas | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Medal rounds
Palm's victory over Wittenberg in round 3 and Wittenberg's victory over Atan in round 5 counted for the medal round. The only bout left for the round therefore was Palm against Atan, with Wittenberg a spectator—who had to hope for an Atan victory to create a three-way tie at 1–1 which Wittenberg would win on bad points to take gold. Palm was able to defeat Atan in a split decision, however, and the Swede thereby won the gold medal, having beaten both of the other medalists.
- Bouts
Winner | Nation | Victory Type | Loser | Nation |
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Viking Palm | ![]() | Decision, 2–1 | Adil Atan | ![]() |
- Points
Rank | Wrestler | Nation | Wins | Losses | Start | Earned | Total |
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![]() | Viking Palm | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
![]() | Henry Wittenberg | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
![]() | Adil Atan | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
References
- "Wrestling at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's freestyle light heavyweight". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- Official Report, p. 362.