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


The freestyle featherweight 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 featherweight was the second-lightest class, allowing wrestlers of up to 60.3 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 Dole United States of America
2James Slim Great Britain
3William McKie Great Britain
4William Tagg Great Britain
5Arthur Goddard Great Britain
5Sidney Peake Great Britain
5James Webster Great Britain
5James White Great Britain
9William Adams Great Britain
9Percy Cockings Great Britain
9Richard Couch Great Britain
9William Jones Great Britain

Bracket