Men's light heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestling
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueWhite City Stadium
DateJuly 22
Competitors21 from 10 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Verner Weckman  Finland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yrjö Saarela  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Carl Jensen  Denmark

The Greco-Roman light 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. The light heavyweight was the second-heaviest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 93 kilograms (205 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 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.[3]

Results

Standings

PlaceWrestlerNation
1Verner WeckmanFinland Finland
2Yrjö SaarelaFinland Finland
3Carl JensenDenmark Denmark
4Hugó PayrHungary Hungary
5Alfred BanbrookGreat Britain Great Britain
Marcel DuboisBelgium Belgium
Fritz LarssonSweden Sweden
Jacob van WestropNetherlands Netherlands
9Cyril BrownGreat Britain Great Britain
Jussi KivimäkiFinland Finland
August MeesenBelgium Belgium
Ernest NixsonGreat Britain Great Britain
Leendert van OostenNetherlands Netherlands
William WestGreat Britain Great Britain
Douwe WijbrandsNetherlands Netherlands
Yevgeny ZamotinRussia Russia
17Harald ChristiansenDenmark Denmark
Henry FoskettGreat Britain Great Britain
György LuntzerHungary Hungary
Henri NielsenDenmark Denmark
Miroslav ŠusteraBohemia Bohemia

Bracket

 
First RoundSecond RoundQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
             
 
Decision
 
 
 Fritz Larsson (SWE)
 
Decision
 
 Harald Christiansen (DEN)
 
 Fritz Larsson (SWE)
 
Fall (5:33)
 
 Douwe Wijbrands (NED)
 
 Douwe Wijbrands (NED)
 
Fall (4:10)
 
 György Luntzer (HUN)
 
 Fritz Larsson (SWE)
 
Fall (7:29)
 
 Verner Weckman (FIN)
 
 Walter West (GBR)
 
Fall (1:53)
 
 Miroslav Šustera (BOH)
 
 Walter West (GBR)
 
 
 Verner Weckman (FIN)
 
 
Fall (11:36)
 
 
 Verner Weckman (FIN)
 
 
 Hugó Payr (HUN)
 
 
Fall (9:08)
 
 
 Hugó Payr (HUN)
 
 
 Yevgeny Zamotin (RU1)
 
 
Decision
 
 
 Hugó Payr (HUN)
 
 
 Jacob van Westrop (NED)
 
 
Decision
 
 
 Jacob van Westrop (NED)
 
 
 Jussi Kivimäki (FIN)
 
 
2–1 (fall by 4:22/fall (5:07)/fall (16:10))
 
 
 Verner Weckman (FIN)
 
Fall (3:50)
 
 Yrjö Saarela (FIN)
 
 Yrjö Saarela (FIN)
 
Fall (2:31)
 
 Henri Nielsen (DEN)
 
 Yrjö Saarela (FIN)
 
 
 Ernest Nixson (GBR)
 
 
Fall (12:24)
 
 
 Yrjö Saarela (FIN)
 
Fall (1:30)
 
 Marcel Dubois (BEL)
 
 Marcel Dubois (BEL)
 
Fall (1:35)
 
 Henry Foskett (GBR)
 
 Marcel Dubois (BEL)
 
 
 Cyril Brown (GBR)
 
 
Fall (5:35)
 
 
 Yrjö Saarela (FIN)
 
 
 Carl Jensen (DEN) Third place
 
 
Fall (8:41) 2–0 (falls 2:04/1:40)
 
 
 Carl Jensen (DEN)  Carl Jensen (DEN)
 
 
 Leendert van Oosten (NED)  Hugó Payr (HUN)
 
 
Fall (2:28)
 
 
 Carl Jensen (DEN)
 
 
 Alfred Banbrook (GBR)
 
 
Fall (7:11)
 
 
 Alfred Banbrook (GBR)
 
 
 August Meesen (BEL)
 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Light-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  2. ↑ Official Report, p. 40.
  3. ↑ Official Report, pp. 621–23.

Sources

  • 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.
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