Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics

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 Catch as Catch Can, predecessor to freestyle wrestling. The competitions were held from Monday, August 16 to Friday, August 20, 1920 (Greco-Roman) and from Wednesday, August 25 to Friday, August 27, 1920 (freestyle).

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Featherweight details	Oskari Friman  Finland	Heikki Kähkönen  Finland	Fritiof Svensson  Sweden
Lightweight details	Emil Väre  Finland	Taavi Tamminen  Finland	Frithjof Andersen  Norway
Middleweight details	Carl Westergren  Sweden	Arthur Lindfors  Finland	Masa Perttilä  Finland
Light heavyweight details	Claes Johanson  Sweden	Edil Rosenqvist  Finland	Johannes Eriksen  Denmark
Heavyweight details	Adolf Lindfors  Finland	Poul Hansen  Denmark	Martti Nieminen  Finland

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Featherweight details	Charles Ackerly  United States	Sam Gerson  United States	Bernard Bernard  Great Britain
Lightweight details	Kalle Anttila  Finland	Gottfrid Svensson  Sweden	Herbert Wright  Great Britain
Middleweight details	Eino Leino  Finland	Väinö Penttala  Finland	Charley Johnson  United States
Light heavyweight details	Anders Larsson  Sweden	Charles Courant  Switzerland	Walter Maurer  United States
Heavyweight details	Robert Roth  Switzerland	Nat Pendleton  United States	Fred Meyer  United States
			Ernst Nilsson  Sweden

Participating nations

A total of 152 wrestlers from 19 nations competed at the Antwerp Games:^[1]

•  Belgium (12)
•  Canada (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (10)
•  Denmark (10)
•  Egypt (1)
•  Estonia (4)
•  Finland (18)
•  France (17)
•  Great Britain (10)
•  Greece (5)
•  India (2)
•  Italy (8)
•  Luxembourg (2)
•  Netherlands (9)
•  Norway (7)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Sweden (13)
•  Switzerland (4)
•  United States (18)

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
Totals (7 entries)		10	10	11	31

See also

• List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
• List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

References

External links

• International Olympic Committee results database
• American Olympic Committee (1920). "Report of the American Olympic Committee, Seventh Olympic Games" (PDF). Retrieved 27 July 2016.