Wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics was held between August 1–7 August at the Grand Olympic Auditorium. It was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which were further divided into different weight categories.

Wrestling at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Grand Olympic Auditorium
Dates	August 1–7, 1932
Competitors	79 from 18 nations

Competition format

Wrestling events consisted of a series of matches and a system of points to decide elimination after each round, followed the format introduced for Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics and now extended to freestyle competition as well. Matches were scored as follows: the results of the bouts were counted on points, with those having the least becoming the winners. Losers received 3 points for each bout lost, those who won by decision of the jury received 1 point, and those who won by pin received 0 points. Those competitors who accumulated 5 bad points were eliminated. If candidates for the third place were eliminated with equal bad points in the same round, they were paired, if they have not yet met each other, for the third place.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Schweden (SWE)	6	1	3	10
2	Vereinigte Staaten (USA)	3	2	0	5
3	Finnland (FIN)	2	3	3	8
4	Deutschland (GER)	1	2	1	4
5	Italien (ITA)	1	1	2	4
6	Frankreich (FRA)	1	0	1	2
7	Ungarn (HUN)	0	2	1	3
8	Kanada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Dänemark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
11	Österreich (AUT)	0	0	2	2
12	Australien (AUS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		14	14	14	42

Medal summary

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Jakob Brendel  Deutschland	Marcello Nizzola  Italien	Louis François  Frankreich
Featherweight	Giovanni Gozzi  Italien	Wolfgang Ehrl  Deutschland	Lauri Koskela  Finnland
Lightweight	Erik Malmberg  Schweden	Abraham Kurland  Dänemark	Eduard Sperling  Deutschland
Welterweight	Ivar Johansson  Schweden	Väinö Kajander  Finnland	Ercole Gallegati  Italien
Middleweight	Väinö Kokkinen  Finnland	Jean Földeák  Deutschland	Axel Cadier  Schweden
Light Heavyweight	Rudolf Svensson  Schweden	Onni Pellinen  Finnland	Mario Gruppioni  Italien
Heavyweight	Carl Westergren  Schweden	Josef Urban  Czechoslovakia	Nickolaus Hirschl  Österreich

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Robert Pearce  Vereinigte Staaten	Ödön Zombori  Ungarn	Aatos Jaskari  Finnland
Featherweight	Hermanni Pihlajamäki  Finnland	Edgar Nemir  Vereinigte Staaten	Einar Karlsson  Schweden
Lightweight	Charles Pacôme  Frankreich	Károly Kárpáti  Ungarn	Gustaf Klarén  Schweden
Welterweight	Jack van Bebber  Vereinigte Staaten	Daniel MacDonald  Kanada	Eino Leino  Finnland
Middleweight	Ivar Johansson  Schweden	Kyösti Luukko  Finnland	József Tunyogi  Ungarn
Light Heavyweight	Peter Mehringer  Vereinigte Staaten	Thure Sjöstedt  Schweden	Eddie Scarf  Australien
Heavyweight	Johan Richthoff  Schweden	Jack Riley  Vereinigte Staaten	Nickolaus Hirschl  Österreich

Participating nations

18 nations participated in Wrestling at the 1932 Olympics:

•  Australien (1)
•  Österreich (1)
•  Kanada (6)
•  Czechoslovakia (2)
•  Dänemark (3)
•  Estland (1)
•  Finnland (10)
•  Frankreich (5)
•  Deutschland (5)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  Griechenland (2)
•  Ungarn (5)
•  Italien (6)
•  Japan (7)
•  Mexiko (2)
•  Norwegen (1)
•  Schweden (13)
•  Vereinigte Staaten (7)

External links

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-05.
• Official Olympic Report