Wrestling at the 1912 Summer Olympics

At the 1912 Summer Olympics, five wrestling events were contested. They were all for men in the Greco-Roman style. The Light Heavyweight match ended after a nine-hour draw. The match was finally declared a tie and it was decided that they would each receive a silver medal.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Featherweight	Kaarlo Koskelo (FIN)	Georg Gerstäcker (GER)	Otto Lasanen (FIN)
Lightweight	Emil Väre (FIN)	Gustaf Malmström (SWE)	Edvin Mattiasson (SWE)
Middleweight	Claes Johanson (SWE)	Martin Klein (RUS)	Alfred Asikainen (FIN)
Light Heavyweight	none awarded	Anders Ahlgren (SWE)	Béla Varga (HUN)
		Ivar Böhling (FIN)
Heavyweight	Yrjö Saarela (FIN)	Johan Olin (FIN)	Søren Marinus Jensen (DEN)

Participating nations

A total of 170 wrestlers from 18 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:^[2]

•  Austria (8)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Bohemia (4)
•  Denmark (9)
•  Finland (37)
•  France (6)
•  Germany (14)
•  Great Britain (12)
•  Greece (1)
•  Hungary (10)
•  Iceland (1)
•  Italy (6)
•  Netherlands (3)
•  Norway (9)
•  Portugal (2)
•  Russia (11)
•  Sweden (34)
•  United States (2)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland (FIN)	3	2	2	7
2	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	1	4
3	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
5	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1

References

Wrestling at the Summer Olympics
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List of medalists Freestyle Greco-Roman List of Olympic venues