Men's heavyweight freestyle wrestling at the Games of the VIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Vélodrome d'Hiver | ||||||||||||
Dates | July 11–14, 1924 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 11 from 6 nations | ||||||||||||
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Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics | |
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Greco-Roman | |
Bantam | men |
Feather | men |
Light | men |
Middle | men |
Light heavy | men |
Heavy | men |
Freestyle | |
Bantam | men |
Feather | men |
Light | men |
Welter | men |
Middle | men |
Light heavy | men |
Heavy | men |
The men's freestyle heavyweight was a freestyle wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. [1] It was the fourth appearance of the event. Heavyweight was the heaviest category, including wrestlers weighing over 87 kilograms.
Source: Official results; [2] Wudarski [3]
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