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


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. Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.

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. 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" 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.

Results

Standings

PlaceWrestlerNation
1Stanley Bacon Great Britain
2George de Relwyskow Great Britain
3Frederick Beck Great Britain
4Carl Andersson Sweden
5Edgar Bacon Great Britain
5Aubrey Coleman Great Britain
5John Craige United States of America
5Fred Narganes United States of America
9George Bradshaw Great Britain
9Harry Challstorp Sweden
9Horace Chenery Great Britain
9Arthur Wallis Great Britain

Bracket