Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman heavyweight

The Greco-Roman heavyweight was one of four Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Like all other wrestling events, it was open only to men.^[1] The heavyweight was the heaviest weight class, allowing wrestlers over 93 kilograms (205 lb).^[2] Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.^[3]

Men's heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestling at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	White City Stadium
Dates	July 21 (quarterfinals, semifinals) July 24 (final, bronze match)
Competitors	7 from 4 nations
Medalists
Richárd Weisz  Hungary Aleksandr Petrov  Russian Empire Søren Marinus Jensen  Denmark
1972 →

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 only from the head and not lower than the waist." The "hair, flesh, ears, private parts, or clothes may not be seized"; striking, scratching, twisting fingers, tripping, and grabbing legs were prohibited. Holds "obtained that the fear of breakage or dislocation of a limb shall cause the wrestler to give the fall" were outlawed, and particularly the double-nelson, arm up back with bar on, hammerlock, strangle, half-strangle, hang, and flying mare with palm uppermost.^[4]

Resulters

Places

Place	Wrestler	Nation
1	Richárd Weisz	Hungary
2	Aleksandr Petrov	Russia
3	Søren Marinus Jensen	Denmark
4	Hugó Payr	Hungary
5	Edward Barrett	Great Britain
	Frederick Humphreys	Great Britain
	Carl Jensen	Denmark

Bracket

	First Round			Semi-finals			Final
	Decision
	Aleksandr Petrov (RU1)
				Fall (15:12)
	Frederick Humphreys (GBR)
				Aleksandr Petrov (RU1)
	Fall (4:37)
				Hugó Payr (HUN)
	Hugó Payr (HUN)
							2–0 (Decision/decision)
	Edward Barrett (GBR)
							Aleksandr Petrov (RU1)
	Fall (13:08)
							Richárd Weisz (HUN)
	Richárd Weisz (HUN)
				Decision
	Carl Jensen (DEN)
				Richárd Weisz (HUN)
				Søren Jensen (DEN)			Third place
							1–0 (Fall (5:44/retired)
							Søren Jensen (DEN)
							Hugó Payr (HUN)

References

1. "Olympedia – Heavyweight, Greco-Roman (>93 kilograms), Men".
2. "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Heavyweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
3. Official Report, p. 40.
4. Official Report, pp. 621–23.

Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
• De Wael, Herman (2001). "Greco-Roman Wrestling 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 29 May 2006.