At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 , three main competitions were held in the corresponding weight classes in wrestling , as well as a cross-class additional competition to determine the overall winner, all of them in the Greco-Roman style. According to the official program, wrestling was embedded in the superordinate sport of athletics , which also combined stone throwing , tug-of-war and rope-swinging, as well as today's sports of athletics and weightlifting . The wrestling took place in the open air in the Panathinaiko Stadium .
The open class competition was carried out to determine the "global winner" in wrestling, so there were only three participants: the winners of the three different weight classes. In the first fight, the winners of the light and heavyweight classes competed against each other; Jensen was able to claim the victory. After that Jensen also mastered the middleweight division winner Weckman. This was considered the final, so there was no fight for second place and the loser automatically took second place.
If the 1906 Games are viewed as the Olympics, Jensen remains the most successful Danish Olympic competitor in wrestling to this day with his two gold medals - one bronze each in 1908 and 1912 .
Individual evidence
↑ «ΛΕΥΚΩΜΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ Β 'ΔΙΕΘΝΩΝ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΚΩΝ ΑΓΩΝΩΝ 1906» , album of the 1906 Interim Olympiad based on official communications from the IOC and the Association of Greek Sports Clubs. Book by the journalist Panayotis Savvidis, Estia Verlag, Athens 1907 (Greek); digitized edition provided by the digital library of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). - Wrestling on p. 51
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