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Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman heavyweight

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Men's heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestling
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueWhite City Stadium
DatesJuly 21 (quarterfinals, semifinals)
July 24 (final, bronze match)
Competitors7 from 4 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Richárd Weisz  Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Aleksandr Petrov  Russian Empire
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Søren Marinus Jensen  Denmark
1972 →

The Greco-Roman heavyweight 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.[1] The heavyweight was the heaviest weight class, allowing wrestlers over 93 kilograms (205 lb).[2] Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.[3]

Competition format

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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 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.[4]

Resulters

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Places

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Place Wrestler Nation
1 Richárd Weisz Hungary Hungary
2 Aleksandr Petrov Russia Russia
3 Søren Marinus Jensen Denmark Denmark
4 Hugó Payr Hungary Hungary
5 Edward Barrett Great Britain Great Britain
Frederick Humphreys Great Britain Great Britain
Carl Jensen Denmark Denmark

Bracket

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First RoundSemi-finalsFinal
 
       
 
Decision
 
 
 Aleksandr Petrov (RU1)
 
Fall (15:12)
 
 Frederick Humphreys (GBR)
 
 Aleksandr Petrov (RU1)
 
Fall (4:37)
 
 Hugó Payr (HUN)
 
 Hugó Payr (HUN)
 
2–0 (Decision/decision)
 
 Edward Barrett (GBR)
 
 Aleksandr Petrov (RU1)
 
Fall (13:08)
 
 Richárd Weisz (HUN)
 
 Richárd Weisz (HUN)
 
Decision
 
 Carl Jensen (DEN)
 
 Richárd Weisz (HUN)
 
 
 Søren Jensen (DEN) Third place
 
 
1–0 (Fall (5:44/retired)
 
 
 Søren Jensen (DEN)
 
 
 Hugó Payr (HUN)
 

References

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  1. ^ "Olympedia – Heavyweight, Greco-Roman (>93 kilograms), Men".
  2. ^ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Heavyweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 40.
  4. ^ Official Report, pp. 621–23.

Sources

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  • 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.