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


The freestyle lightweight 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 lightweight was the median weight class, allowing wrestlers of up to 66.6 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 de Relwyskow Great Britain
2William Wood Great Britain
3Albert Gingell Great Britain
4George MacKenzie Great Britain
5Henry Baillie Great Britain
5John Krug United States of America
5James McKenzie Great Britain
5William Shepherd Great Britain
9George Faulkner Great Britain
9William Henson Great Britain
9Joseph Hoy Great Britain

Bracket