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

The Greco-Roman lightweight 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. The lightweight was the lightest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 66.6 kilograms (147 lb).[1] Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.[2]

Men's lightweight Greco-Roman wrestling
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueWhite City Stadium
DatesJuly 23 (R32 through semis)
July 25 (final, bronze match)
Competitors25 from 10 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Enrico Porro  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nikolay Orlov  Russian Empire
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Arvo Lindén  Finland
1912 →

Competition format

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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.[3]

Results

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Standings

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Place Wrestler Nation
1 Enrico Porro   Italy
2 Nikolay Orlov   Russia
3 Arvo Lindén   Finland
4 Gunnar Persson   Sweden
5 Gustaf Malmström   Sweden
József Maróthy   Hungary
Anders Møller   Denmark
Ödön Radvány   Hungary
9 Ernest Blount   Great Britain
Ulferd Bruseker   Netherlands
Carl Carlsen   Denmark
George Faulkner   Great Britain
Albert Hawkins   Great Britain
Téger József   Hungary
Carl Erik Lund   Sweden
William Wood   Great Britain
17 Christian Carlsen   Denmark
Karel Halík   Bohemia
Lucien Hansen   Belgium
George MacKenzie   Great Britain
Jacob van Moppes   Netherlands
Albert Rose   Great Britain
William Ruff   Great Britain
Fernand Steens   Belgium
Albert Whittingstall   Great Britain

Bracket

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First RoundSecond RoundQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
             
 
Fall (2:33)
 
 
  Arvo Lindén (FIN)
 
Fall (4:15)
 
  Lucien Hansen (BEL)
 
  Arvo Lindén (FIN)
 
Fall (9:00)
 
  Carl Carlsen (DEN)
 
  Carl Carlsen (DEN)
 
Fall (13:32)
 
  Fernand Steens (BEL)
 
  Arvo Lindén (FIN)
 
Fall (3:59)
 
  Anders Møller (DEN)
 
  Anders Møller (DEN)
 
Fall (11:18)
 
  Albert Whittingstall (GBR)
 
  Anders Møller (DEN)
 
 
  George Faulkner (GBR)
 
 
Decision
 
 
  Arvo Lindén (FIN)
 
 
  Nikolay Orlov (RU1)
 
 
Fall (10:46)
 
 
  Nikolay Orlov (RU1)
 
 
  Carl Erik Lund (SWE)
 
 
Fall (7:16)
 
 
  Nikolay Orlov (RU1)
 
Fall (18:35)
 
  Ödön Radvány (HUN)
 
  Ödön Radvány (HUN)
 
Fall (0:17)
 
  William Ruff (GBR)
 
  Ödön Radvány (HUN)
 
Fall (1:10)
 
  Albert Hawkins (GBR)
 
  Albert Hawkins (GBR)
 
2–0 (decision/decision)
 
  Christian Carlsen (DEN)
 
  Nikolay Orlov (RU1)  
 
 
  Enrico Porro (ITA)  
 
 
Decision
 
 
  Enrico Porro (ITA)
 
Decision
 
  József Téger (HUN)
 
  József Téger (HUN)
 
Decision
 
  Jacob van Moppes (NED)
 
  Enrico Porro (ITA)
 
Fall (3:35)
 
  Gustaf Malmström (SWE)
 
  Gustaf Malmström (SWE)
 
Fall (3:20)
 
  George MacKenzie (GBR)
 
  Gustaf Malmström (SWE)
 
 
  Ulferd Bruseker (NED)
 
 
Fall (2:05)
 
 
  Enrico Porro (ITA)
 
 
  Gunnar Persson (SWE) Third place
 
 
Fall (7:06)  
 
 
  Gunnar Persson (SWE)   Arvo Lindén (FIN)  
 
 
  Ernest Blount (GBR)   Gunnar Persson (SWE)
 
 
 
 
 
  Gunnar Persson (SWE)
 
Fall (14:59)
 
József Maróthy retired
 
  József Maróthy (HUN)
 
Decision
 
  Albert Rose (GBR)
 
  József Maróthy (HUN)
 
Decision
 
  William Wood (GBR)
 
  William Wood (GBR)
 
 
  Karel Halík (BOH)
 

References

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  1. ^ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Lightweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 40.
  3. ^ Official Report, pp. 621–23.

Sources

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  • 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.