Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre
Dates	29 July – 6 August
Competitors	219 from 29 nations
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At the 1948 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling. The freestyle competitions were held from July 29 to July 31, 1948 and the Greco-Roman events were held from August 3 to August 6, 1948. ^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey  (TUR)	6	4	1	11
2	Sweden  (SWE)	5	5	3	13
3	United States  (USA)	2	1	1	4
4	Hungary  (HUN)	1	1	2	4
5	Finland  (FIN)	1	1	1	3
6	Italy  (ITA)	1	0	2	3
7	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	2	3
8	Australia  (AUS)	0	1	1	2
	Egypt  (EGY)	0	1	1	2
10	Norway  (NOR)	0	1	0	1
11	Denmark  (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	France  (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		16	16	16	48

Medal summary

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Lenni Viitala   Finland	Halit Balamir   Turkey	Thure Johansson   Sweden
Bantamweight details	Nasuh Akar   Turkey	Gerald Leeman   United States	Charles Kouyos   France
Featherweight details	Gazanfer Bilge   Turkey	Ivar Sjölin   Sweden	Adolf Müller   Switzerland
Lightweight details	Celal Atik   Turkey	Gösta Frändfors   Sweden	Hermann Baumann   Switzerland
Welterweight details	Yaşar Doğu   Turkey	Dick Garrard   Australia	Leland Merrill   United States
Middleweight details	Glen Brand   United States	Adil Candemir   Turkey	Erik Lindén   Sweden
Light Heavyweight details	Henry Wittenberg   United States	Fritz Stöckli   Switzerland	Bengt Fahlqvist   Sweden
Heavyweight details	Gyula Bóbis   Hungary	Bertil Antonsson   Sweden	Joseph Armstrong   Australia

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight details	Pietro Lombardi   Italy	Kenan Olcay   Turkey	Reino Kangasmäki   Finland
Bantamweight details	Kurt Pettersén   Sweden	Mahmoud Hassan   Egypt	Halil Kaya   Turkey
Featherweight details	Mehmet Oktav   Turkey	Olle Anderberg   Sweden	Ferenc Tóth   Hungary
Lightweight details	Gustav Freij   Sweden	Aage Eriksen   Norway	Károly Ferencz   Hungary
Welterweight details	Gösta Andersson   Sweden	Miklós Szilvási   Hungary	Henrik Hansen   Denmark
Middleweight details	Axel Grönberg   Sweden	Muhlis Tayfur   Turkey	Ercole Gallegati   Italy
Light Heavyweight details	Karl-Erik Nilsson   Sweden	Kelpo Gröndahl   Finland	Ibrahim Orabi   Egypt
Heavyweight details	Ahmet Kireççi   Turkey	Tor Nilsson   Sweden	Guido Fantoni   Italy

Participating nations

A total of 219 wrestlers from 29 nations competed at the London Games: ^[1]

•   Argentina  (8)
•   Australia  (4)
•   Austria  (5)
•   Belgium  (9)
•   Canada  (6)
•   Cuba  (3)
•   Czechoslovakia  (3)
•   Denmark  (5)
•   Egypt  (13)
•   Finland  (15)
•   France  (11)
•   Great Britain  (16)
•   Greece  (5)
•   Hungary  (12)
•   India  (6)
•   Italy  (11)
•   South Korea  (4)
•   Lebanon  (5)
•   Luxembourg  (2)
•   Mexico  (4)
•   Netherlands  (4)
•   Norway  (6)
•   Philippines  (1)
•   South Africa  (3)
•   Sweden  (16)
•   Switzerland  (12)
•   Turkey  (16)
•   United States  (8) ^[2]

N.B. - Pakistan sent four wrestlers, but they could not compete as they had been mistakenly entered for the Greco-Roman style and not freestyle.

Olle Anderberg of Sweden wrestling Ferenc Tóth of Hungary in the Featherweight event

See also

• List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
• List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

References

1. "Wrestling at the 1948 London Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 28 April 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
2. "THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE XIV OLYMPIAD". I. 1951: 76. Retrieved 22 September 2015.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 2006-12-05.

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