Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight

The freestyle featherweight was one of five freestyle wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Like all other wrestling events, it was open only to men. The featherweight was the second-lightest class, allowing wrestlers of up to 60.3 kilograms (133 lb).[1] Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.[2]

Men's featherweight freestyle wrestling
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueWhite City Stadium
DateJuly 22
Competitors12 from 2 nations
Medalists
George Dole  United States
James Slim  Great Britain
William McKie  Great Britain

Competition format

The event was a single-elimination tournament with a bronze medal match between the semifinal losers. The final and bronze medal match were best two-of-three, while all other rounds were a single bout. Bouts were 15 minutes, unless one wrestler lost by fall (two shoulders on the ground at the same time). Other than falls, decisions were made by the judges or, if they did not agree, the referee.

Wrestlers could "take hold how and where they please[d]" except that "hair, flesh, ears, private parts, or clothes may not be seized"; striking, scratching, twisting fingers, butting, and kicking were prohibited. Holds "obtained that the fear of breakage or dislocation of a limb shall induce a wrestler to give the fall" were outlawed, and particularly the double-nelson, hammerlock, strangle, half-strangle, scissors, hang, flying mare with palm uppermost, and the foot twist.[3]

Results

Standings

PlaceWrestlerNation
1George Dole United States of America
2James Slim Great Britain
3William McKie Great Britain
4William Tagg Great Britain
5Arthur Goddard Great Britain
Sidney Peake Great Britain
James Webster Great Britain
James White Great Britain
9William Adams Great Britain
Percy Cockings Great Britain
Richard Couch Great Britain
William Jones Great Britain

Bracket

 
First RoundQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
Decision
 
 
 George Dole (USA)
 
Decision
 
 Percy Cockings (GBR)
 
 George Dole (USA)
 
Fall (2:14)
 
 James Webster (GBR)
 
 James Webster (GBR)
 
Fall (6:00)
 
 William Adams (GBR)
 
 George Dole (USA)
 
Fall (11:56)
 
 William McKie (GBR)
 
 James White (GBR)
 
Decision
 
 William Jones (GBR)
 
 James White (GBR)
 
 
 William McKie (GBR)
 
 
2–0 (fall (9:28)/decision)
 
 
 George Dole (USA)
 
Fall (10:48)
 
 James Slim (GBR)
 
 Arthur Goddard (GBR)
 
Fall (5:00)
 
 Richard Couch (GBR)
 
 Arthur Goddard (GBR)
 
 
 William Tagg (GBR)
 
 
Decision
 
 
 William Tagg (GBR)
 
 
 James Slim (GBR) Third place
 
 
Fall (9:00) 1–0 (decision/retired)
 
 
 James Slim (GBR)  William McKie (GBR)
 
 
 Sidney Peake (GBR)  William Tagg (GBR)
 
 
 
 

References

  1. "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Featherweight, Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  2. Official Report, p. 40.
  3. Official Report, pp. 621–22.

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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