Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics

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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.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Greco-Roman 1.2 Freestyle 2 Medal table

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Greco-Roman

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

[edit] Freestyle

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

[edit] Medal table

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

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