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

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Men's featherweight freestyle wrestling
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
VenueWhite City Stadium
DateJuly 22
Competitors12 from 2 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) George Dole  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) James Slim  Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) William McKie  Great Britain
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The freestyle featherweight 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 featherweight was the second-lightest class, allowing wrestlers of up to 60.3 kilograms (133 lb).[1] Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.[2]

11 British athletes and 1 American participated.

Competition format

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The event was a single-elimination tournament with a bronze medal match between the semifinal losers. The final and bronze medal match were best two-of-three, while all other rounds were a single bout. Bouts were 15 minutes, unless one wrestler lost by fall (two shoulders on the ground at the same time). Other than falls, decisions were made by the judges or, if they did not agree, the referee.

Wrestlers could "take hold how and where they please[d]" except that "hair, flesh, ears, private parts, or clothes may not be seized"; striking, scratching, twisting fingers, butting, and kicking were prohibited. Holds "obtained that the fear of breakage or dislocation of a limb shall induce a wrestler to give the fall" were outlawed, and particularly the double-nelson, hammerlock, strangle, half-strangle, scissors, hang, flying mare with palm uppermost, and the foot twist.[3]

Results

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Standings

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Place Wrestler Nation
1 George Dole United States of America United States of America
2 James Slim Great Britain Great Britain
3 William McKie Great Britain Great Britain
4 William Tagg Great Britain Great Britain
5 Alfred Goddard Great Britain Great Britain
Sidney Peake Great Britain Great Britain
James Webster Great Britain Great Britain
Joseph White Great Britain Great Britain
9 Walter Adams Great Britain Great Britain
Percy Cockings Great Britain Great Britain
Risdon Couch Great Britain Great Britain
William Jones Great Britain Great Britain

Bracket

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First RoundQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
Decision
 
 
 George Dole (USA)
 
Decision
 
 Percy Cockings (GBR)
 
 George Dole (USA)
 
Fall (2:14)
 
 James Webster (GBR)
 
 James Webster (GBR)
 
Fall (6:00)
 
 Walter Adams (GBR)
 
 George Dole (USA)
 
Fall (11:56)
 
 William McKie (GBR)
 
 Joseph White (GBR)
 
Decision
 
 William Jones (GBR)
 
 Joseph White (GBR)
 
 
 William McKie (GBR)
 
 
2–0 (fall (9:28)/decision)
 
 
 George Dole (USA)
 
Fall (10:48)
 
 James Slim (GBR)
 
 Alfred Goddard (GBR)
 
Fall (5:00)
 
 Risdon Couch (GBR)
 
 Alfred Goddard (GBR)
 
 
 William Tagg (GBR)
 
 
Decision
 
 
 William Tagg (GBR)
 
 
 James Slim (GBR) Third place
 
 
Fall (9:00) 1–0 (decision/retired)
 
 
 James Slim (GBR)  William McKie (GBR)
 
 
 Sidney Peake (GBR)  William Tagg (GBR)
 
 
 
 

References

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  1. ^ "Wrestling at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Featherweight, Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 40.
  3. ^ Official Report, pp. 621–22.

Sources

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  • 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.