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Wrestling at the Olympics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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 |
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.
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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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 |
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 |
Super heavyweight |
Richárd Weisz Hungary |
Aleksandr Petrov Russian Empire |
Søren Marinus Jensen Denmark |
115 wrestlers from 14 nations competed.
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Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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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 |
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 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 |
Belgium, Bohemia, Germany, and the Netherlands also sent wrestlers, but did not win any medals.
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