The Greco-Roman middleweight 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 middleweight was the second-lightest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 73 kilograms (161 lb).[1] Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.[2]
| Men's middleweight Greco-Roman wrestling at the Games of the IV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | White City Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Dates | ? (R32 through semis) July 25 (final, bronze match) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 21 from 8 nations | ||||||||||||
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Competition format
editThe 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
editStandings
edit| Place | Wrestler | Nation |
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| 1 | Frithiof Mårtensson |  Sweden
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| 2 | Mauritz Andersson | Sweden
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| 3 | Anders Andersen |  Denmark
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| 4 | Jóhannes Jósefsson | Iceland[4][5][6]
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| 5 | Jaap Belmer |  Netherlands
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| Johannes Eriksen | Denmark
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| Axel Frank | Sweden
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| Axel Larsson | Denmark
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| 9 | Edgar Bacon |  Great Britain
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| Frederick Beck | Great Britain
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| Gerald Bradshaw | Great Britain
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| Grigory Dyomin |  Russia
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| Aäron Lelie | Netherlands
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| Jacobus Lorenz | Netherlands
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| Miklós Orosz | .svg){kind=small} Hungary
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| Jaroslav Týfa |  Bohemia
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| 17 | Stanley Bacon | Great Britain
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| Josef Bechynê | Bohemia
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| Harry Challstorp | Sweden
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| Gerrit Duijm | Netherlands
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| Wilhelm Grundmann | .svg){kind=small} Germany
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Bracket
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References
edit- ^ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Middleweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ Official Report, p. 40.
- ^ Official Report, pp. 621–23.
- ^ "Johannes JOSEFSSON". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ^ "History". Icelandic Olympic Committee. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ^ "Jóhannes Jósefsson". Olympedia. 20 December 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
Notes
edit- ^ a b c Jósepsson is listed as Icelandic in the Official Report's detailed listing of wrestling results (Cook, p. 333) but Iceland was not one of the 22 National Olympic Committees present at the Games, and was controlled by Denmark at the time. The wrestler is later listed as Danish in the Official Report's list of competitors (Cook, p. 697).
- ^ a b Jósepsson broke his arm in his semifinal and was forced to withdraw from the bronze medal match; Andersen received third place.
Sources
edit- 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.