Wrestling at the 1912 Summer Olympics

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At the 1912 Summer Olympics, five wrestling events were contested. The Light Heavyweight match ended after a nine hour draw. The match was finally declared a tie and it was decided that they would each receive a silver medal.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Greco-Roman featherweight details	Kaarlo Koskelo Finland (FIN)	Georg Gerstäcker Germany (GER)	Otto Lasanen Finland (FIN)
Greco-Roman lightweight details	Emil Väre Finland (FIN)	Gustaf Malmström Sweden (SWE)	Edvin Mattiasson Sweden (SWE)
Greco-Roman middleweight details	Claes Johansson Sweden (SWE)	Martin Klein Russia (RUS)	Alfred Asikainen Finland (FIN)
Greco-Roman light heavyweight details	none awarded	Anders Ahlgren Sweden (SWE)	Béla Varga Hungary (HUN)
		Ivar Böhling Finland (FIN)
Greco-Roman heavyweight details	Yrjö Saarela Finland (FIN)	Johan Olin Finland (FIN)	Søren Marinus Jensen Denmark (DEN)

Participating nations

A total of 170 wrestlers from 18 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:

• Austria (8)
• Belgium (1)
• Bohemia (4)
• Denmark (9)
• Finland (37)
• France (6)
• Germany (14)
• Great Britain (12)
• Greece (1)
• Hungary (10)
• Iceland (1)
• Italy (6)
• Netherlands (3)
• Norway (9)
• Portugal (2)
• Russia (11)
• Sweden (34)
• United States (2)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland (FIN)	3	2	2	7
2	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	1	4
3	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
5	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1

Notes and references

Wrestling at the Summer Olympics 1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 List of medalists (Freestyle, Greco-Roman)