Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle middleweight

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Men's middleweight freestyle wrestling
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue White City Stadium
DatesJuly 21 (R16, quarters, semis)
July 22 (final, bronze match)
Competitors12 from 3 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Stanley Bacon Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg George de Relwyskow Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Bronze medal icon.svg Frederick Beck Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
1920  

The freestyle middleweight 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 middleweight was the second-heaviest weight class, allowing wrestlers of up to 73 kilograms (161 lb). [1] Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers. [2]

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 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

Standings

PlaceWrestlerNation
1 Stanley Bacon Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
2 George de Relwyskow Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
3 Frederick Beck Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
4 Carl Andersson Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
5 Edgar Bacon Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Aubrey Coleman Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
John Craige Flag of the United States of America (1908-1912).svg United States of America
Fred Narganes Flag of the United States of America (1908-1912).svg United States of America
9 Gerald Bradshaw Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Harry Challstorp Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
Horace Chenery Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Arthur Wallis Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain

Bracket

 
First RoundQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
Fall (2:44)
 
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Aubrey Coleman  (GBR)
 
Fall (5:17)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Arthur Wallis  (GBR)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Aubrey Coleman  (GBR)
 
Fall (4:48)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Stanley Bacon  (GBR)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Stanley Bacon  (GBR)
 
Fall (3:20)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Henry Chenery  (GBR)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Stanley Bacon  (GBR)
 
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Frederick Beck  (GBR)Bronze medal.svg [lower-alpha 1]
 
 
Fall (2:49)
 
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Frederick Beck  (GBR)
 
 
US flag 45 stars.svg  Frederico Narganes  (USA)
 
 
2–0 (decision/decision)
 
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Stanley Bacon  (GBR)Gold medal.svg
 
Fall (1:55)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  George de Relwyskow  (GBR)Silver medal.svg
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Edgar Bacon  (GBR)
 
Fall (6:30)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Gerald Bradshaw  (GBR)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Edgar Bacon  (GBR)
 
Fall (3:10)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  George de Relwyskow  (GBR)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  George de Relwyskow  (GBR)
 
Decision
 
Flag of Sweden.svg  Harry Challstorp  (SWE)
 
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  George de Relwyskow  (GBR)
 
 
Flag of Sweden.svg  Carl Andersson  (SWE) [lower-alpha 1]
 
 
Decision
 
 
Flag of Sweden.svg  Carl Andersson  (SWE)
 
 
US flag 45 stars.svg  John Craige  (USA)
 
 
 
 

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References

  1. "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Middleweight, Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  2. Official Report, p. 40.
  3. Official Report, pp. 621–22.

Notes

  1. 1 2 After a protest from his semi-final was rejected, Andersson refused to participate in the bronze medal match, giving Beck third place

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