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 | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | White City Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | July 22 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 12 from 2 nations | ||||||||||||
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11 British athletes and 1 American participated.
Competition format edit
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 edit
Standings edit
| Place | Wrestler | Nation |
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| 1 | George Dole | .svg){kind=small} United States of America
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| 2 | James Slim |  Great Britain
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| 3 | William McKie | Great Britain
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| 4 | William Tagg | Great Britain
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| 5 | Alfred Goddard | Great Britain
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| Sidney Peake | Great Britain
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| James Webster | Great Britain
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| Joseph White | Great Britain
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| 9 | Walter Adams | Great Britain
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| Percy Cockings | Great Britain
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| Risdon Couch | Great Britain
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| William Jones | Great Britain
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Bracket edit
| First Round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||
| Decision | ||||||||||
 George Dole (USA)
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| Decision | ||||||||||
 Percy Cockings (GBR)
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| George Dole (USA)
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| Fall (2:14) | ||||||||||
| James Webster (GBR)
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| James Webster (GBR)
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| Fall (6:00) | ||||||||||
| Walter Adams (GBR)
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| George Dole (USA)
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| Fall (11:56) | ||||||||||
| William McKie (GBR)
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| Joseph White (GBR)
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| Decision | ||||||||||
| William Jones (GBR)
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| Joseph White (GBR)
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| William McKie (GBR)
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| 2–0 (fall (9:28)/decision) | ||||||||||
George Dole (USA) 
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| Fall (10:48) | ||||||||||
James Slim (GBR) 
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| Alfred Goddard (GBR)
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| Fall (5:00) | ||||||||||
| Risdon Couch (GBR)
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| Alfred Goddard (GBR)
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| William Tagg (GBR)
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| Decision | ||||||||||
| William Tagg (GBR)
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| James Slim (GBR)
| Third place | |||||||||
| Fall (9:00) | 1–0 (decision/retired) | |||||||||
| James Slim (GBR)
| William McKie (GBR) 
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| Sidney Peake (GBR)
| William Tagg (GBR)
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References edit
- ^ "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.
- ^ Official Report, p. 40.
- ^ Official Report, pp. 621–22.
Sources edit
- 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.