Date | 29 – 31 July 1948 — 10:00-13:30-18:00-23:30 (all days) | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Kensington, London | |
Participants | 9 from 9 countries | |
Format | Elimination by bad points. Win by fall = 0 points; win by decision = 1 point; loss by 2-1 decision = 2 points; loss by 3-0 decision = 3 points; loss by fall = 3 points. Three judges gave decisions, thus all decisions were either 2-1 or 3-0. Five bad points eliminated a wrestler. |
There were only nine entrants in the men’s freestyle heavyweight event, and thus it required only four rounds to get to a final round match. Round four matched Australian Jim Armstrong against Turkey’s Sadik Esen, with Armstrong winning by fall in 12:30, and Hungary’s Gyula Bobís defeating Sweden’s Bertil Antonsson by split decision. Bobís had been the bronze medalist in this class at the 1937 European Championships, while Antonsson was the 1946 European Champion. Bobís then met Armstrong for the gold medal, with the Hungarian winning by fall in 9:49.
Bobís did not retire, winning silver in Greco-Roman at the 1950 World Championships. Antonsson would repeat as silver medalist in this class in 1952 and also competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, with less success. He won the 1949 European and 1951 World Championships in this class. Armstrong would win the 1950 British Empire Games title in this class, and he also played cricket for Australia in an Ashes’ Test match against Great Britain in 1946.
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | RE | Bad Points | |||
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1 | Gyula Bóbis | ![]() | – | – | Gold | ||
2 | Bertil Antonsson | ![]() | – | – | Silver | ||
3 | Jim Armstrong | ![]() | – | – | Bronze | ||
4 | Sadik Esen | ![]() | – | – | |||
=5 | Abdul Ghasem Sahkdari | ![]() | – | – | |||
=5 | Josef Růžička | ![]() | – | – | |||
Dick Hutton | ![]() | Eliminated r3/5 | 6 | ||||
Fred Oberlander | ![]() | Eliminated r2/5 | 5 | ||||
Willy Lardon | ![]() | Eliminated r2/5 | 6 |
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Bad Points | |||
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1 | Abdul Ghasem Sahkdari | ![]() | 0 | |||
=2 | Jim Armstrong | ![]() | 1 | |||
=2 | Gyula Bóbis | ![]() | 1 | |||
=2 | Bertil Antonsson | ![]() | 1 | |||
=2 | Josef Růžička | ![]() | 1 | |||
6 | Dick Hutton | ![]() | 2 | |||
=7 | Fred Oberlander | ![]() | 3 | |||
=7 | Willy Lardon | ![]() | 3 | |||
=7 | Sadik Esen | ![]() | 3 |
Match #1 | Josef Růžička | ![]() | decision (2-1) | Dick Hutton | ![]() |
Match #2 | Jim Armstrong | ![]() | decision (3-0) | Fred Oberlander | ![]() |
Match #3 | Gyula Bóbis | ![]() | decision (3-0) | Willy Lardon | ![]() |
Match #4 | Bertil Antonsson | ![]() | decision (3-0) | Sadik Esen | ![]() |
Match #5 | Abdul Ghasem Sahkdari | ![]() | bye |
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Bad Points | |||
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=1 | Gyula Bóbis | ![]() | 1 | |||
=1 | Bertil Antonsson | ![]() | 1 | |||
=3 | Abdul Ghasem Sahkdari | ![]() | 2 | |||
=3 | Josef Růžička | ![]() | 2 | |||
5 | Dick Hutton | ![]() | 3 | |||
=6 | Jim Armstrong | ![]() | 4 | |||
=6 | Sadik Esen | ![]() | 4 | |||
8 | Fred Oberlander | ![]() | 5 | eliminated | ||
9 | Willy Lardon | ![]() | 6 | eliminated |
Match #1 | Josef Růžička | ![]() | decision (2-1) | Fred Oberlander | ![]() |
Match #2 | Dick Hutton | ![]() | decision (2-1) | Abdul Ghasem Sahkdari | ![]() |
Match #3 | Gyula Bóbis | ![]() | fall (6:14) | Jim Armstrong | ![]() |
Match #4 | Sadik Esen | ![]() | decision (3-0) | Willy Lardon | ![]() |
Match #5 | Bertil Antonsson | ![]() | bye |
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Bad Points | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
=1 | Gyula Bóbis | ![]() | 1 | |||
=1 | Bertil Antonsson | ![]() | 1 | |||
=3 | Jim Armstrong | ![]() | 4 | |||
=3 | Sadik Esen | ![]() | 4 | |||
=5 | Abdul Ghasem Sahkdari | ![]() | 5 | eliminated | ||
=5 | Josef Růžička | ![]() | 5 | eliminated | ||
7 | Dick Hutton | ![]() | 6 | eliminated |
Match #1 | Bertil Antonsson | ![]() | fall (8:41) | Abdul Ghasem Sahkdari | ![]() |
Match #2 | Jim Armstrong | ![]() | retired (2:36) | Dick Hutton | ![]() |
Match #3 | Gyula Bóbis | ![]() | fall (9:06) | Josef Růžička | ![]() |
Match #4 | Sadik Esen | ![]() | bye |
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Bad Points | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gyula Bóbis | ![]() | 2 | |||
2 | Bertil Antonsson | ![]() | 3 | |||
3 | Jim Armstrong | ![]() | 4 | |||
4 | Sadik Esen | ![]() | 7 | eliminated |
Match #1 | Jim Armstrong | ![]() | fall (12:30) | Sadik Esen | ![]() |
Match #2 | Gyula Bóbis | ![]() | decision (2-1) | Bertil Antonsson | ![]() |
Match #1 | Bertil Antonsson | ![]() | fall (9:49) | Jim Armstrong | ![]() |
Match #2 | Gyula Bóbis | ![]() | bye |