Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle middleweight

Men's middleweight freestyle wrestling at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	White City Stadium
Dates	July 21 (R16, quarters, semis) July 22 (final, bronze match)
Competitors	12 from 3 nations
Medalists
Stanley Bacon  Great Britain George de Relwyskow  Great Britain Frederick Beck  Great Britain

The freestyle middleweight was one of five freestyle wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Like all other wrestling events, it was open only to men. The middleweight was the second-heaviest weight class, allowing wrestlers of up to 73 kilograms (161 lb).

Results

Standings

Place	Wrestler	Nation
1	Stanley Bacon	Great Britain
2	George de Relwyskow	Great Britain
3	Frederick Beck	Great Britain
4	Carl Andersson	Sweden
5	Edgar Bacon	Great Britain
	Aubrey Coleman	Great Britain
	John Craige	United States of America
	Frederico Narganes	United States of America
9	George Bradshaw	Great Britain
	Harry Challstorp	Sweden
	Henry Chenery	Great Britain
	Arthur Wallis	Great Britain

Bracket

	First round					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
	1
	16
	8
	9
	5
	12
	4
	13
	6
	11
	3
	14
	7
	10
	2
	15

After a protest from his semi-final was rejected, Andersson refused to participate in the bronze medal match, giving Beck third place.

Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
• De Wael, Herman (2001). "Freestyle Wrestling 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 28 May 2006.