Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics

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Wrestling at the Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Venue	Vélodrome d'Hiver
Dates	6–14 July 1924
No. of events	13 (13 men, 0 women)
Competitors	229 from 26 nations
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Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Greco-Roman
Bantam	men
Feather	men
Light	men
Middle	men
Light heavy	men
Heavy	men
Freestyle
Bantam	men
Feather	men
Light	men
Welter	men
Middle	men
Light heavy	men
Heavy	men
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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 6 to 10 July 1924 and the freestyle competitions from 11 to 14 July 1924.^[1]

Medal summary

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight details	Kustaa Pihlajamäki  Finland	Kaarlo Mäkinen  Finland	Bryan Hines  United States
Featherweight details	Robin Reed  United States	Chester Newton  United States	Katsutoshi Naito  Japan
Lightweight details	Russell Vis  United States	Volmar Wikström  Finland	Arvo Haavisto  Finland
Welterweight details	Hermann Gehri  Switzerland	Eino Leino  Finland	Otto Müller  Switzerland
Middleweight details	Fritz Hagmann  Switzerland	Pierre Ollivier  Belgium	Vilho Pekkala  Finland
Light Heavyweight details	John Spellman  United States	Rudolf Svensson  Sweden	Charles Courant  Switzerland
Heavyweight details	Harry Steel  United States	Henri Wernli  Switzerland	Archie MacDonald  Great Britain

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight details	Eduard Pütsep  Estonia	Anselm Ahlfors  Finland	Väinö Ikonen  Finland
Featherweight details	Kalle Anttila  Finland	Aleksanteri Toivola  Finland	Eric Malmberg  Sweden
Lightweight details	Oskari Friman  Finland	Lajos Keresztes  Hungary	Källe Westerlund  Finland
Middleweight details	Edvard Westerlund  Finland	Arthur Lindfors  Finland	Roman Steinberg  Estonia
Light Heavyweight details	Carl Westergren  Sweden	Rudolf Svensson  Sweden	Onni Pellinen  Finland
Heavyweight details	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

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Wrestling at the 1924 Paris Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2019.