Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
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At the '''[[1908 Summer Olympics]]''' in [[London]], nine '''[[amateur wrestling|wrestling]]''' events were contested, all for men. There were four weight classes in [[Greco-Roman wrestling]] and five weight classes in [[freestyle wrestling]].
Greco-Roman reappeared for the first time since the [[1896 Summer Olympics]], with weight classes for the first time. The number of classes in freestyle was reduced from 7 to 5, with the light fly, fly, and welterweight classes dropped but the middleweight added. The addition of the 4 Greco-Roman classes brought the total number of events in wrestling up to 9.
<div class="tright">[[Image:Wrestling pictogram.svg|100px|border|Wrestling]]</div>
==Medal summary==
===Greco-Roman===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event}}
|-
| Lightweight<br />{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's Greco-Roman lightweight}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Enrico Porro]]|ITA|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Nikolai Orlov]]|RUS|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Arvo Lindén]]|FIN|1908 Summer}}
|-
| Middleweight<br />{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's Greco-Roman middleweight}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Frithiof Mårtensson]]|SWE|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Mauritz Andersson]]|SWE|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Anders Andersen (wrestler)|Anders Andersen]]|DEN|1908 Summer}}
|-
| Light heavyweight<br />{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Verner Weckman]]|FIN|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Yrjö Saarela]]|FIN|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Carl Jensen]]|DEN|1908 Summer}}
|-
| Super heavyweight<br />{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's Greco-Roman super heavyweight}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Richárd Weisz]]|HUN|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Aleksandr Petrov (wrestler)|Aleksandr Petrov]]|RUS|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Søren Marinus Jensen]]|DEN|1908 Summer}}
|}
===Freestyle===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event}}
|-
| Bantamweight<br />{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's freestyle bantamweight}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[George Mehnert]]|USA|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[William Press]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Aubert Coté]]|CAN|1908 Summer}}
|-
| Featherweight<br />{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's freestyle featherweight}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[George Dole]]|USA|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[James Slim]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[William McKie]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
|-
| Lightweight<br />{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's freestyle lightweight}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[George de Relwyskow]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[William Wood (wrestler)|William Wood]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Albert Gingell]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
|-
| Middleweight<br />{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's freestyle middleweight}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Stanley Bacon]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[George de Relwyskow]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Frederick Beck]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
|-
| Heavyweight<br />{{DetailsLink|Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's freestyle heavyweight}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Con O'Kelly]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Jacob Gundersen]]|NOR|1908 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCmedalist|[[Edward Barrett]]|GBR|1908 Summer}}
|}
==Participating nations==
==Medal table==
{| {{RankedMedalTable}}
|-
| 1 ||align=left| {{flagIOCteam|GBR|1908 Summer}} || 3 || 4 || 4 || 11
|-
| 2 ||align=left| {{flagIOCteam|USA|1908 Summer}} || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
| 3 ||align=left| {{flagIOCteam|FIN|1908 Summer}} || 1 || 1 || 1 || 3
|-
| 4 ||align=left| {{flagIOCteam|SWE|1908 Summer}} || 1 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
|rowspan=2| 5 ||align=left| {{flagIOCteam|HUN|1908 Summer}} || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| {{flagIOCteam|ITA|1908 Summer}} || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
| 7 ||align=left| {{flagIOCteam|RUS|1908 Summer}} || 0 || 2 || 0 || 2
|-
| 8 ||align=left| {{flagIOCteam|NOR|1908 Summer}} || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
| 9 ||align=left| {{flagIOCteam|DEN|1908 Summer}} || 0 || 0 || 3 || 3
|-
| 10 ||align=left| {{flagIOCteam|CAN|1908 Summer}} || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1
|}
[[Belgium at the 1908 Summer Olympics|Belgium]], [[Bohemia at the 1908 Summer Olympics|Bohemia]], [[Germany at the 1908 Summer Olympics|Germany]], and the [[Netherlands at the 1908 Summer Olympics|Netherlands]] also sent wrestlers, but did not win any medals.
==References==
* {{cite book | last = Cook | first = Theodore Andrea | year = 1908 | title = The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report | publisher = British Olympic Association | location = London}}
* {{cite web | last = De Wael | first = Herman | year = 2001 | url = http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/wrf1908.html | title = Freestyle Wrestling 1908 | work = Herman's Full Olympians | accessdate = 28 May | accessyear = 2006}}
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