Wrestling at the Games of the IV Olympiad | |
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Venue | White City Stadium |
Dates | 20–25 July 1908 |
No. of events | 9 (9 men, 0 women) |
Competitors | 115 from 14 nations |
Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics | |
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Greco-Roman | |
Lightweight | men |
Middleweight | men |
Light heavyweight | men |
Super heavyweight | men |
Freestyle | |
Bantamweight | men |
Featherweight | men |
Lightweight | men |
Middleweight | men |
Heavyweight | men |
At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, nine wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were four weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and five weight classes in freestyle wrestling.[1]
Greco-Roman reappeared for the first time since the 1896 Summer Olympics, with weight classes for the first time. The number of classes in freestyle was reduced from 7 to 5, with the light fly, fly, and welterweight classes dropped but the middleweight added. The addition of the 4 Greco-Roman classes brought the total number of events in wrestling up to 9.