Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight explained

Event:	Men's freestyle featherweight
Games:	1948 Summer
Venue:	Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre
Dates:	29–31 July
Competitors:	17
Nations:	17
Gold:	Gazanfer Bilge
Goldnoc:	TUR
Silver:	Ivar Sjölin
Silvernoc:	SWE
Bronze:	Adolf Müller
Bronzenoc:	SUI
Prev:	1936
Next:	1952

The men's freestyle featherweight competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London took place from 29 July to 31 July at the Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Nations were limited to one competitor.^[1] Featherweight was the third-lightest category, including wrestlers weighing 57to.

This freestyle wrestling competition continued to use the "bad points" elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, with the slight modification introduced in 1936. Each round featured all wrestlers pairing off and wrestling one bout (with one wrestler having a bye if there were an odd number). The loser received 3 points if the loss was by fall or unanimous decision and 2 points if the decision was 2-1 (this was the modification from prior years, where all losses were 3 points). The winner received 1 point if the win was by decision and 0 points if the win was by fall. At the end of each round, any wrestler with at least 5 points was eliminated.

Results

Round 1

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Fall
		Fall
		Fall
		Decision, 2–1
		Decision, 2–1
		Decision, 2–1
		Decision, 3–0
		Decision, 3–0
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
1			0	0	0
5			0	1	1
5			0	1	1
5			0	1	1
5			0	1	1
5			0	1	1
10			0	2	2
10			0	2	2
10			0	2	2
13			0	3	3
13			0	3	3
13			0	3	3
13			0	3	3
13			0	3	3

Round 2

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision, 2–1
		Fall
		Decision, 3–0
		Decision, 3–0
		Fall
		Decision, 3–0
		Fall
		Fall
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
2			1	0	1
2			1	0	1
2			0	1	1
2			1	0	1
6			0	2	2
7			3	0	3
7			2	1	3
7			0	3	3
10			1	3	4
10			3	1	4
10			1	3	4
10			3	1	4
14			2	3	5
14			2	3	5
16			3	3	6
16			3	3	6

Round 3

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Fall
		Decision, 3–0
		Fall
		Decision, 2–1
		Fall
		Fall
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
2			1	0	1
3			2	0	2
3			1	1	2
5			3	0	3
5			1	2	3
7			1	3	4
7			4	0	4
7			3	1	4
10			3	3	6
11			4	3	7
11			4	3	7
11			4	3	7

Round 4

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Fall
		Fall
		Fall
		Fall
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
2			1	0	1
3			2	0	2
4			3	0	3
5			4	0	4
6			2	3	5
7			3	3	6
8			4	3	7
8			4	3	7

Round 5

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Fall
		Decision, 2–1
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
2			2	0	2
2			1	1	2
4			3	3	6
4			4	2	6

Round 6

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision, 3–0
		Bye	N/A	N/A

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
1			0	0	0
2			2	1	3
			2	3	5

Round 7

Bouts

Winner	Nation	Victory Type	Loser	Nation
		Decision, 3–0

Points

Rank	Wrestler	Nation	Start	Earned	Total
			0	1	1
			2	3	5

References

General

• Book: 1948 . 1951 . The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad . London . 18 August 2024 . .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wrestling at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Featherweight, Freestyle . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132304/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1948/WRE/mens-featherweight-freestyle.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 3 March 2019.