Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics
# Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics

At the 1924 Summer Olympics thirteen wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were six weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and seven classes in freestyle wrestling. The Greco-Roman events were held from July 6 to July 10, 1924 and the freestyle competitions were held from July 11 to July 14, 1924.

## Medal summary

### Freestyle

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Bantamweight details | Kustaa Pihlajamäki Finland | Kaarlo Mäkinen Finland | Bryan Hines United States |
| Featherweight details | Robin Reed United States | Chester Newton United States | Katsutoshi Naito Japan |
| Lightweight details | Russell Vis United States | Volmar Wikström Finland | Arvo Haavisto Finland |
| Welterweight details | Hermann Gehri Switzerland | Eino Leino Finland | Otto Müller Switzerland |
| Middleweight details | Fritz Hagmann Switzerland | Pierre Ollivier Belgium | Vilho Pekkala Finland |
| Light Heavyweight details | John Spellman United States | Rudolf Svensson Sweden | Charles Courant Switzerland |
| Heavyweight details | Harry Steel United States | Henri Wernli Switzerland | Archie MacDonald Great Britain |

### Greco-Roman

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Bantamweight details | Eduard Pütsep Estonia | Anselm Ahlfors Finland | Väinö Ikonen Finland |
| Featherweight details | Kalle Anttila Finland | Aleksanteri Toivola Finland | Eric Malmberg Sweden |
| Lightweight details | Oskari Friman Finland | Lajos Keresztes Hungary | Källe Westerlund Finland |
| Middleweight details | Edvard Westerlund Finland | Arthur Lindfors Finland | Roman Steinberg Estonia |
| Light Heavyweight details | Carl Westergren Sweden | Rudolf Svensson Sweden | Onni Pellinen Finland |
| Heavyweight details | Henri Deglane France | Edil Rosenqvist Finland | Rajmund Badó Hungary |

## Participating nations

A total of 229 wrestlers from 26 nations competed at the Paris Games.

* Australia (1)
* Austria (8)
* Belgium (17)
* Canada (5)
* Czechoslovakia (9)
* Denmark (11)
* Egypt (2)
* Estonia (8)
* Finland (24)
* France (23)
* Great Britain (14)
* Greece (2)
* Hungary (12)
* Italy (17)
* Japan (1)
* Latvia (6)
* Luxembourg (2)
* Netherlands (8)
* Norway (7)
* Poland (2)
* Spain (4)
* Sweden (13)
* Switzerland (12)
* Turkey (5)
* United States (14)
* Yugoslavia (2)

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Finland (FIN) | 4 | 7 | 5 | 16 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Switzerland (SUI) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Estonia (EST) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 13 | 13 | 13 | 39 |
