The Greco-Roman light heavyweight 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 light heavyweight was the second-heaviest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 93 kilograms (205 lb). Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.Official Report, p. 40.
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.Official Report, pp. 621–23.
Results
Standings
Place Wrestler Nation 1 Verner Weckman Finland 2 Yrjö Saarela Finland 3 Carl Jensen Denmark 4 Hugó Payr Hungary 5 Alfred Banbrook Great Britain Marcel Dubois Belgium Fritz Larsson Sweden Jacob van Westrop Netherlands 9 Cyril Brown Great Britain Jussi Kivimäki Finland August Meesen Belgium Ernest Nixson Great Britain Leendert van Oosten Netherlands William West Great Britain Douwe Wijbrands Netherlands Yevgeny Zamotin Russia 17 Harald Christiansen Denmark Henry Foskett Great Britain György Luntzer Hungary Henri Nielsen Denmark Miroslav Šustera Bohemia
Bracket
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