Olympic Summer Games 1896 / wrestling
Wrestling at the I. Olympic Games |
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venue | Athens |
Competition venue | Panathinaic Stadium |
Nations | 4th |
Athletes | 5 (5 ) |
date | 10-11 April 1896 |
decisions | 1 |
A wrestling competition was held at the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 . The venue was the Panathinaiko Stadium .
Medal table
space | country | Third | total | ||
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1 | German Empire | 1 | - | - | 1 |
2 | Greece | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Result
Greco-Roman style, open class
space | country | athlete | Victories |
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1 | GER | Carl Schuhmann | 2 |
2 | GRE | Georgios Tsitas | 1 |
3 | GRE | Stefanos Christopoulos | 1 |
4th | GBR | Launceston Elliot | 0 |
HUN | Momcsilló Tapavicza | 0 |
Olympic champion Schuhmann was the smallest (1.63 meters) and lightest participant in the competition.
Web links
Commons : Wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Wrestling at the Olympic Games 1896 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )