Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle lightweight
The freestyle lightweight 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 lightweight was the median weight class, allowing wrestlers of up to 66.6 kilograms (147 lb).[1] Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.[2]
| Men's lightweight freestyle wrestling at the Games of the IV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | White City Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | July 24 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 11 from 2 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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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 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
editStandings
edit| Place | Wrestler | Nation |
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| 1 | George de Relwyskow |  Great Britain
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| 2 | William Wood | Great Britain
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| 3 | Arthur Gingell | Great Britain
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| 4 | George MacKenzie | Great Britain
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| 5 | Harry Baillie | Great Britain
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| John Krug | .svg){kind=small} United States of America
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| John McKenzie | Great Britain
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| William Shepherd | Great Britain
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| 9 | George Faulkner | Great Britain
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| William Henson | Great Britain
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| John Hoy | Great Britain
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Bracket
edit| First Round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||
| Decision | ||||||||||
 John Krug (USA)
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| Fall (6:08) | ||||||||||
 John Hoy (GBR)
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| John Krug (USA)
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| Decision | ||||||||||
| William Wood (GBR)
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| William Wood (GBR)
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| Fall (7:44) | ||||||||||
| George Faulkner (GBR)
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| William Wood (GBR)
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| George McKenzie (GBR)
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| Fall (6:20) | ||||||||||
| George McKenzie (GBR)
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| John McKenzie (GBR)
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| 2–0 (decision/decision) | ||||||||||
William Wood (GBR) 
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| Fall (6:04) | ||||||||||
George de Relwyskow (GBR) 
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| George de Relwyskow (GBR)
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| Decision | ||||||||||
| William Henson (GBR)
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| George de Relwyskow (GBR)
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| William Shepherd (GBR)
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| Fall (14:41) | ||||||||||
| George de Relwyskow (GBR)
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| Arthur Gingell (GBR)
| Third place | |||||||||
| Fall (10:24) | 2–0 (falls 6:44/3:20) | |||||||||
| Arthur Gingell (GBR)
| Arthur Gingell (GBR) 
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| Harry Baillie (GBR)
| George McKenzie (GBR)
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References
edit- ^ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Lightweight, 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.