Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics

At the 1920 Summer Olympics, ten wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were five weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and five classes in Catch as Catch Can, predecessor to freestyle wrestling. The competitions were held from Monday, August 16 to Friday, August 20, 1920 (Greco-Roman) and from Wednesday, August 25 to Friday, August 27, 1920 (freestyle).

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Featherweight	Oskari Friman (FIN)	Heikki Kähkönen (FIN)	Fritiof Svensson (SWE)
Lightweight	Emil Väre (FIN)	Taavi Tamminen (FIN)	Frithjof Andersen (NOR)
Middleweight	Carl Westergren (SWE)	Arthur Lindfors (FIN)	Masa Perttilä (FIN)
Light heavyweight	Claes Johanson (SWE)	Edil Rosenqvist (FIN)	Johannes Eriksen (DEN)
Heavyweight	Adolf Lindfors (FIN)	Poul Hansen (DEN)	Martti Nieminen (FIN)

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Featherweight	Charles Ackerly (USA)	Sam Gerson (USA)	Philip Bernard (GBR)
Lightweight	Kalle Anttila (FIN)	Gottfrid Svensson (SWE)	Peter Wright (GBR)
Middleweight	Eino Leino (FIN)	Väinö Penttala (FIN)	Charley Johnson (USA)
Light heavyweight	Anders Larsson (SWE)	Charles Courant (SUI)	Walter Maurer (USA)
Heavyweight	Robert Roth (SUI)	Nat Pendleton (USA)	Fred Meyer (USA)
			Ernst Nilsson (SWE)

Participating nations

A total of 152 wrestlers from 19 nations competed at the Antwerp Games:^[1]

•  Belgium (12)
•  Canada (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (10)
•  Denmark (10)
•  Egypt (1)
•  Estonia (4)
•  Finland (18)
•  France (17)
•  Great Britain (10)
•  Greece (5)
•  India (2)
•  Italy (8)
•  Luxembourg (2)
•  Netherlands (9)
•  Norway (7)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Sweden (13)
•  Switzerland (4)
•  United States (18)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland (FIN)	5	5	2	12
2	Sweden (SWE)	3	1	2	6
3	United States (USA)	1	2	3	6
4	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	0	2
5	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	2	2
7	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Total		10	10	11	31

See also

• List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
• List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

References

External links

• International Olympic Committee results database
• American Olympic Committee (1920). "Report of the American Olympic Committee, Seventh Olympic Games" (PDF). Retrieved 27 July 2016. 

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