1912 Summer Olympics / wrestling

Wrestling at the 5th Olympic Games
information
venue	Sweden
Competition venue	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Nations	18th
Athletes	170 (170 men)
date	6-15 July 1912
decisions	5
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At the V Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 , five wrestling competitions were held. The venue was the Stockholm Olympic Stadium . Only decisions in the Greco-Roman style were on the program, freestyle wrestling was dropped.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Finland	3	2	2	7th
2	Sweden	1	2	1	4th
3	German Empire	-	1	-	1
	Russia	-	1	-	1
5	Denmark	-	-	1	1
	Hungary	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Featherweight	Kaarlo Koskelo	Georg Gerstacker	Otto Lasanen
lightweight	Eemeli Vare	Gustaf Malmström	Edvin Mattiasson
medium weight	Claes Johansson	Martin Klein	Alfred Asikainen
Light heavyweight	-	Ahlgren Ivar Böhling is different	Béla Varga
Heavyweight	Yrjö Saarela	Johan Olin	Søren Marinus Jensen

Results Greco-Roman style

Feather weight (up to 60 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	FIN	Kaarlo Koskelo
2	GER	Georg Gerstacker
3	FIN	Otto Lasanen
4th	FIN	Kaarlo Leivonen
	SWE	Erik Öberg
6th	FIN	Lauri Haapanen
	FIN	Karl Kangas
	FIN	Hjalmar Lehmusvirta

Date: July 6th to 15th, 1912
38 participants from 13 countries

Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	FIN	Eemeli Vare
2	SWE	Gustaf Malmström
3	SWE	Edvin Mattiasson
4th	HUN	Ödön Radvány
	SWE	Carl Erik Lund
6th	BOH	Jan Balej
	RUS	Oskar Kaplur
	FIN	David Kolehmainen
	SWE	Johan Nilsson
	FIN	Volmar Wikström

Date: July 6th to 15th, 1912
48 participants from 13 countries

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	SWE	Claes Johansson
2	RUS	Martin Klein
3	FIN	Alfred Asikainen
4th	FIN	Karl Åberg
	FIN	August Jokinen
6th	NED	Jan Sint
7th	SWE	Edvin Fältström
	FIN	Mikko Holm
	FIN	Fridolf Lundstein
	FIN	Emil Westerlund

Martin Klein (right) in a duel with Alfred Asikainen

Date: July 6th to 15th, 1912
38 participants from 13 countries

The fight between Klein and Asikainen went down in history as the longest Olympic wrestling match with a duration of 11 hours and 40 minutes.

Light heavyweight (up to 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	-	not forgiven
2	SWE	Ahlgren is different
	FIN	Ivar Boehling
3	HUN	Béla Varga
4th	GER	Fritz Lange
	FIN	Rajala is different
6th	THE	Jens Christensen
	THE	Johannes Eriksen
	FIN	Knut Lindberg
	ISL	Sigurjón Pétursson

Date: July 7th to 15th, 1912
29 participants from 12 countries

The finalists were both placed in second place, as no winner could be determined even after nine hours of fighting.

Heavy weight (over 82.5 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	FIN	Yrjö Saarela
2	FIN	Johan Olin
3	THE	Søren Marinus Jensen
4th	GER	Jakob Neser
5	FIN	Emil Backenius
	FIN	Kalle Viljaama
7th	FIN	Adolf Lindfors
	FIN	Gustaf Pelander

Date: July 7-14, 1912
17 participants from 9 countries

Web links

• Wrestling at the 1912 Olympic Games in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1912 Olympic Games (PDF, 51.1 MB)