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Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics
At the 1924 Summer Olympics thirteen wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were six weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and seven classes in freestyle wrestling. The Greco-Roman events were held from July 6 to July 10, 1924 and the freestyle competitions were held from July 11 to July 14, 1924.[1]
Medal summary
Freestyle
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Bantamweight | Kustaa Pihlajamäki Finland | Kaarlo Mäkinen Finland | Bryan Hines United States |
Featherweight | Robin Reed United States | Chester Newton United States | Katsutoshi Naito Japan |
Lightweight | Russell Vis United States | Volmar Wikström Finland | Arvo Haavisto Finland |
Welterweight | Hermann Gehri Switzerland | Eino Leino Finland | Otto Müller Switzerland |
Middleweight | Fritz Hagmann Switzerland | Pierre Ollivier Belgium | Vilho Pekkala Finland |
Light Heavyweight | John Spellman United States | Rudolf Svensson Sweden | Charles Courant Switzerland |
Heavyweight | Harry Steel United States | Henri Wernli Switzerland | Archie MacDonald Great Britain |
Greco-Roman
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Bantamweight | Eduard Pütsep Estonia | Anselm Ahlfors Finland | Väinö Ikonen Finland |
Featherweight | Kalle Anttila Finland | Aleksanteri Toivola Finland | Eric Malmberg Sweden |
Lightweight | Oskari Friman Finland | Lajos Keresztes Hungary | Källe Westerlund Finland |
Middleweight | Edvard Westerlund Finland | Arthur Lindfors Finland | Roman Steinberg Estonia |
Light Heavyweight | Carl Westergren Sweden | Rudolf Svensson Sweden | Onni Pellinen Finland |
Heavyweight | Henri Deglane France | Edil Rosenqvist Finland | Rajmund Badó Hungary |
Participating nations
A total of 229 wrestlers from 26 nations competed at the Paris Games.[1]
- Australia (1)
- Austria (8)
- Belgium (17)
- Canada (5)
- Czechoslovakia (9)
- Denmark (11)
- Egypt (2)
- Estonia (8)
- Finland (24)
- France (23)
- Great Britain (14)
- Greece (2)
- Hungary (12)
- Italy (17)
- Japan (1)
- Latvia (6)
- Luxembourg (2)
- Netherlands (8)
- Norway (7)
- Poland (2)
- Spain (4)
- Sweden (13)
- Switzerland (12)
- Turkey (5)
- United States (14)
- Yugoslavia (2)
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Finland (FIN) | 4 | 7 | 5 | 16 |
2 | United States (USA) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
3 | Switzerland (SUI) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
4 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
5 | Estonia (EST) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
6 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
7 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
8 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
9 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (10 entries) | 13 | 13 | 13 | 39 |