Wrestling at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman middleweight
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Men's middleweight Greco-Roman wrestling at the Games of the V Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Stockholm Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
Dates | July 6–15 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 38 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The Greco-Roman middleweight competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics was part of the wrestling programme.
The event was held from July 6, 1912, to July 15, 1912. The official name was Middleweight A (maximum weight of 75 kilogram/165 lbs). A maximum of 12 wrestlers from the same nation were allowed to start. 38 wrestlers from 14 nations competed. The Swedish hosts had the strongest team with nine wrestlers.
The competition used a form of double-elimination tournament. Rather than using the brackets that are now standard for double-elimination contests (and which assure that each match is between two competitors with the same number of losses), each wrestler drew a number. The drawing and weighing was held on Sunday, July 6 from 2 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. at the Stadium. Each man would face off against the wrestler with the next number, provided he had not already faced that wrestler and that the wrestler was not from the same nation as him (unless this was necessary to avoid byes).
When only three wrestlers remain (the medalists), the double-elimination halts and a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.