Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle bantamweight


The freestyle bantamweight was one of five freestyle 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 bantamweight was the lightest class, allowing wrestlers of up to 54 kilograms. Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.

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. Other than falls, decisions were made by the judges or, if they did not agree, the referee.
Wrestlers could "take hold how and where they please" except that "hair, flesh, ears, private parts, or clothes may not be seized"; striking, scratching, twisting fingers, butting, and kicking were prohibited. Holds "obtained that the fear of breakage or dislocation of a limb shall induce a wrestler to give the fall" were outlawed, and particularly the double-nelson, hammerlock, strangle, half-strangle, scissors, hang, flying mare with palm uppermost, and the foot twist.

Results

Standings

PlaceWrestlerNation
1George Mehnert United States of America
2William J. Press Great Britain
3Aubert Côté Canada
4Frederick Tomkins Great Britain
5Frank Davis Great Britain
5Burt Sansom Great Britain
5George Saunders Great Britain
5Harry Sprenger Great Britain
9James Cox Great Britain
9William Cox Great Britain
9Frederick Knight Great Britain
9Guy Schwan Great Britain
9Harold Whiterall Great Britain

Bracket