Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics

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Wrestling

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 freestyle wrestling.

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[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Greco-Roman

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Featherweight
–60 kg
details
Finland Oskari Friman
Finland (FIN)
Finland Heikki Kähkönen
Finland (FIN)
Sweden Fritiof Svensson
Sweden (SWE)
Lightweight
–67.5 kg
details
Finland Emil Väre
Finland (FIN)
Finland Taavi Tamminen
Finland (FIN)
Norway Frithjof Andersen
Norway (NOR)
Middleweight
–75 kg
details
Sweden Carl Westergren
Sweden (SWE)
Finland Arthur Lindfors
Finland (FIN)
Finland Masa Perttilä
Finland (FIN)
Light heavyweight
–82.5 kg
details
Sweden Claes Johansson
Sweden (SWE)
Finland Edil Rosenqvist
Finland (FIN)
Denmark Johannes Eriksen
Denmark (DEN)
Heavyweight
+82.5 kg
details
Finland Adolf Lindfors
Finland (FIN)
Denmark Poul Hansen
Denmark (DEN)
Finland Martti Nieminen
Finland (FIN)

[edit] Freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Featherweight
–60 kg
details
United States Charles E. Ackerly
United States (USA)
United States Samuel Gerson
United States (USA)
Great Britain Philip Bernard
Great Britain (GBR)
Lightweight
–67.5 kg
details
Finland Kalle Anttila
Finland (FIN)
Sweden Gottfrid Svensson
Sweden (SWE)
Great Britain Peter Wright
Great Britain (GBR)
Middleweight
–75 kg
details
Finland Eino Leino
Finland (FIN)
Finland Väinö Penttala
Finland (FIN)
United States Charles Johnson
United States (USA)
Light heavyweight
–82.5 kg
details
Sweden Anders Larsson
Sweden (SWE)
Switzerland Charles Courant
Switzerland (SUI)
United States Walter Maurer
United States (USA)
Heavyweight
+82.5 kg
details
Switzerland Robert Roth
Switzerland (SUI)
United States Nat Pendleton
United States (USA)
United States Fred Meyer
United States (USA)
Sweden Ernst Nilsson
Sweden (SWE)

[edit] Medal table

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