| Men's light heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestling at the Games of the IV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | White City Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | July 22 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 21 from 10 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics | |
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| Greco-Roman | |
| Lightweight | men |
| Middleweight | men |
| Light heavyweight | men |
| Super heavyweight | men |
| Freestyle | |
| Bantamweight | men |
| Featherweight | men |
| Lightweight | men |
| Middleweight | men |
| Heavyweight | men |
The Greco-Roman light 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. The light heavyweight was the second-heaviest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 93 kilograms (205 lb).[1] Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.[2]
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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.[3]
Results
Standings
| Place | Wrestler | Nation |
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| 1 | Verner Weckman |  Finland
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| 2 | Yrjö Saarela | Finland
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| 3 | Carl Jensen |  Denmark
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| 4 | Hugó Payr |  Hungary
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| 5 | Alfred Banbrook |  Great Britain
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| Marcel Dubois |  Belgium
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| Fritz Larsson |  Sweden
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| Jacob van Westrop |  Netherlands
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| 9 | Cyril Brown | Great Britain
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| Jussi Kivimäki | Finland
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| August Meesen | Belgium
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| Ernest Nixson | Great Britain
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| Leendert van Oosten | Netherlands
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| William West | Great Britain
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| Douwe Wijbrands | Netherlands
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| Yevgeny Zamotin | Russia
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| 17 | Harald Christiansen | Denmark
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| Henry Foskett | Great Britain
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| György Luntzer | Hungary
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| Henri Nielsen | Denmark
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| Miroslav Šustera |  Bohemia
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Bracket
| First Round | Second Round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||
| Decision | |||||||||||||
 Fritz Larsson (SWE)
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| Decision | |||||||||||||
 Harald Christiansen (DEN)
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| Fritz Larsson (SWE)
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| Fall (5:33) | |||||||||||||
 Douwe Wijbrands (NED)
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| Douwe Wijbrands (NED)
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| Fall (4:10) | |||||||||||||
 György Luntzer (HUN)
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| Fritz Larsson (SWE)
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| Fall (7:29) | |||||||||||||
 Verner Weckman (FIN)
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 Walter West (GBR)
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| Fall (1:53) | |||||||||||||
 Miroslav Šustera (BOH)
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| Walter West (GBR)
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| Verner Weckman (FIN)
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| Fall (11:36) | |||||||||||||
| Verner Weckman (FIN)
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| Hugó Payr (HUN)
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| Fall (9:08) | |||||||||||||
| Hugó Payr (HUN)
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| Yevgeny Zamotin (RU1)
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| Decision | |||||||||||||
| Hugó Payr (HUN)
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| Jacob van Westrop (NED)
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| Decision | |||||||||||||
| Jacob van Westrop (NED)
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| Jussi Kivimäki (FIN)
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| 2–1 (fall by 4:22/fall (5:07)/fall (16:10)) | |||||||||||||
Verner Weckman (FIN) 
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| Fall (3:50) | |||||||||||||
Yrjö Saarela (FIN) 
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| Yrjö Saarela (FIN)
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| Fall (2:31) | |||||||||||||
| Henri Nielsen (DEN)
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| Yrjö Saarela (FIN)
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| Ernest Nixson (GBR)
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| Fall (12:24) | |||||||||||||
| Yrjö Saarela (FIN)
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| Fall (1:30) | |||||||||||||
 Marcel Dubois (BEL)
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| Marcel Dubois (BEL)
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| Fall (1:35) | |||||||||||||
| Henry Foskett (GBR)
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| Marcel Dubois (BEL)
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| Cyril Brown (GBR)
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| Fall (5:35) | |||||||||||||
| Yrjö Saarela (FIN)
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| Carl Jensen (DEN)
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| Fall (8:41) | 2–0 (falls 2:04/1:40) | ||||||||||||
| Carl Jensen (DEN)
| Carl Jensen (DEN) 
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| Leendert van Oosten (NED)
| Hugó Payr (HUN)
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| Fall (2:28) | |||||||||||||
| Carl Jensen (DEN)
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| Alfred Banbrook (GBR)
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| Fall (7:11) | |||||||||||||
| Alfred Banbrook (GBR)
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| August Meesen (BEL)
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References
- ^ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Light-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- ^ Official Report, p. 40.
- ^ 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.
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