Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
# Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics

At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, nine 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.

## Medal summary

### Freestyle

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Bantamweight details | George Mehnert United States | William J. Press Great Britain | Aubert Côté Canada |
| Featherweight details | George Dole United States | James Slim Great Britain | William McKie Great Britain |
| Lightweight details | George de Relwyskow Great Britain | William Wood Great Britain | Albert Gingell Great Britain |
| Middleweight details | Stanley Bacon Great Britain | George de Relwyskow Great Britain | Frederick Beck Great Britain |
| Heavyweight details | Con O'Kelly Great Britain | Jacob Gundersen Norway | Edward Barrett Great Britain |

### Greco-Roman

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Lightweight details | Enrico Porro Italy | Nikolay Orlov Russian Empire | Arvo Lindén Finland |
| Middleweight details | Frithiof Mårtensson Sweden | Mauritz Andersson Sweden | Anders Andersen Denmark |
| Light heavyweight details | Verner Weckman Finland | Yrjö Saarela Finland | Carl Jensen Denmark |
| Super heavyweight details | Richárd Weisz Hungary | Aleksandr Petrov Russian Empire | Søren Marinus Jensen Denmark |

## Participating nations

115 wrestlers from 14 nations competed.

| Belgium (4)  Bohemia (4)  Canada (1)  Denmark (11)  Finland (4)  Germany (1)  Great Britain (53) | Hungary (7)  Italy (1)  Netherlands (9)  Norway (1)  Russian Empire (4)  Sweden (9)  United States (6) |
| - | - |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Great Britain (GBR) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Russian Empire (RU1) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 |

Belgium, Bohemia, Germany, and the Netherlands also sent wrestlers, but did not win any medals.

