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Men's lightweight Greco-Roman wrestling
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Men's lightweight Greco-Roman wrestling; at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	White City Stadium
Dates	July 23 (R32 through semis) ; July 25 (final, bronze match)
Competitors	25 from 10 nations
Medalists
	1912 →

The Greco-Roman lightweight 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 lightweight was the lightest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 66.6 kilograms (147 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

Place	Wrestler	Nation
1	Enrico Porro	Italy
2	Nikolay Orlov	Russia
3	Arvo Lindén	Finland
4	Gunnar Persson	Sweden
5	Gustaf Malmström	Sweden
	József Maróthy	Hungary
	Anders Møller	Denmark
	Ödön Radvány	Hungary
9	Ernest Blount	Great Britain
	Ulferd Bruseker	Netherlands
	Carl Carlsen	Denmark
	George Faulkner	Great Britain
	Albert Hawkins	Great Britain
	Téger József	Hungary
	Carl Erik Lund	Sweden
	William Wood	Great Britain
17	Christian Carlsen	Denmark
	Karel Halík	Bohemia
	Lucien Hansen	Belgium
	George MacKenzie	Great Britain
	Jacob van Moppes	Netherlands
	Albert Rose	Great Britain
	William Ruff	Great Britain
	Fernand Steens	Belgium
	Albert Whittingstall	Great Britain

Bracket

First Round

Second Round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Fall (2:33)

Arvo Lindén (FIN)

Fall (4:15)

Lucien Hansen (BEL)

Arvo Lindén (FIN)

Fall (9:00)

Carl Carlsen (DEN)

Carl Carlsen (DEN)

Fall (13:32)

Fernand Steens (BEL)

Arvo Lindén (FIN)

Fall (3:59)

Anders Møller (DEN)

Anders Møller (DEN)

Fall (11:18)

Albert Whittingstall (GBR)

Anders Møller (DEN)

George Faulkner (GBR)

Decision

Arvo Lindén (FIN)

Nikolay Orlov (RU1)

Fall (10:46)

Nikolay Orlov (RU1)

Carl Erik Lund (SWE)

Fall (7:16)

Nikolay Orlov (RU1)

Fall (18:35)

Ödön Radvány (HUN)

Ödön Radvány (HUN)

Fall (0:17)

William Ruff (GBR)

Ödön Radvány (HUN)

Fall (1:10)

Albert Hawkins (GBR)

Albert Hawkins (GBR)

2–0 (decision/decision)

Christian Carlsen (DEN)

Nikolay Orlov (RU1)

Enrico Porro (ITA)

Decision

Enrico Porro (ITA)

Decision

József Téger (HUN)

József Téger (HUN)

Decision

Jacob van Moppes (NED)

Enrico Porro (ITA)

Fall (3:35)

Gustaf Malmström (SWE)

Gustaf Malmström (SWE)

Fall (3:20)

George MacKenzie (GBR)

Gustaf Malmström (SWE)

Ulferd Bruseker (NED)

Fall (2:05)

Enrico Porro (ITA)

Gunnar Persson (SWE)

Third place

Fall (7:06)

Gunnar Persson (SWE)

Arvo Lindén (FIN)

Ernest Blount (GBR)

Gunnar Persson (SWE)

Gunnar Persson (SWE)

Fall (14:59)

József Maróthy retired

József Maróthy (HUN)

Decision

Albert Rose (GBR)

József Maróthy (HUN)

Decision

William Wood (GBR)

William Wood (GBR)

Karel Halík (BOH)

References

^ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Lightweight, Greco-Roman". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
^ Official Report, p. 40.
^ 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.