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

Event 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

Event 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]

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Finland (FIN)47516
2 United States (USA)4116
3 Switzerland (SUI)2125
4 Sweden (SWE)1214
5 Estonia (EST)1012
6 France (FRA)1001
7 Hungary (HUN)0112
8 Belgium (BEL)0101
9 Great Britain (GBR)0011
 Japan (JPN)0011
Totals (10 nations)13131339

References

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