The men's Greco-Roman flyweight competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London took place from 3 August to 6 August at the Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Nations were limited to one competitor. Flyweight was the lightest category, including wrestlers weighing up to .
This Greco-Roman 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 Malte Möller Withdrew Adolphe Lamot Edmond Faure Decision, 2–1 Abdallah Sidani Gyula Szilágyi Fall Manuel Varela Mohamed Abdel-El Fall Walter McGuffie Kenan Olcay Decision, 3–0 Frithjof Clausen Pietro Lombardi Decision, 3–0 Svend Aage Thomsen Reino Kangasmäki Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 Mohamed Abdel-El 0 0 0 1 Reino Kangasmäki 0 0 0 1 Malte Möller 0 0 0 1 Gyula Szilágyi 0 0 0 5 Edmond Faure 0 1 1 5 Pietro Lombardi 0 1 1 5 Kenan Olcay 0 1 1 8 Abdallah Sidani 0 2 2 9 Manuel Varela 0 3 3 9 Walter McGuffie 0 3 3 9 Frithjof Clausen 0 3 3 9 Svend Aage Thomsen 0 3 3 13 Adolphe Lamot 0 3 3*
Round 2
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Reino Kangasmäki Decision, 2–1 Malte Möller Gyula Szilágyi Decision, 3–0 Edmond Faure Manuel Varela Fall Abdallah Sidani Frithjof Clausen Fall Walter McGuffie Pietro Lombardi Fall Mohamed Abdel-El Kenan Olcay Decision, 3–0 Svend Aage Thomsen
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 Reino Kangasmäki 0 1 1 1 Pietro Lombardi 1 0 1 1 Gyula Szilágyi 0 1 1 4 Malte Möller 0 2 2 4 Kenan Olcay 1 1 2 6 Mohamed Abdel-El 0 3 3 6 Frithjof Clausen 3 0 3 6 Manuel Varela 3 0 3 9 Edmond Faure 1 3 4 10 Abdallah Sidani 2 3 5 11 Walter McGuffie 3 3 6 11 Svend Aage Thomsen 3 3 6
Round 3
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Reino Kangasmäki Fall Edmond Faure Malte Möller Decision, 2–1 Gyula Szilágyi Frithjof Clausen Decision, 3–0 Manuel Varela Kenan Olcay Fall Mohamed Abdel-El Pietro Lombardi Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 Reino Kangasmäki 1 0 1 1 Pietro Lombardi 1 0 1 3 Kenan Olcay 2 0 2 4 Malte Möller 2 1 3 4 Gyula Szilágyi 1 2 3 6 Frithjof Clausen 3 1 4 7 Mohamed Abdel-El 3 3 6 7 Manuel Varela 3 3 6 9 Edmond Faure 4 3 7
Round 4
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Pietro Lombardi Decision, 3–0 Reino Kangasmäki Malte Möller Fall Frithjof Clausen Gyula Szilágyi Decision, 2–1 Kenan Olcay
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 Pietro Lombardi 1 1 2 2 Malte Möller 3 0 3 3 Reino Kangasmäki 1 3 4 3 Kenan Olcay 2 2 4 3 Gyula Szilágyi 3 1 4 6 Frithjof Clausen 4 3 7
Round 5
The Official Report gives final rankings for the top 6 wrestlers. It is not clear why Kangasmäki received the bronze. Of the three men eliminated in this round, each was 1–1 against the others (Szilágyi defeated Kangasmäki, who defeated Möller, who defeated Szilágyi). Szilágyi had the fewest bad points, at 5 to the other two wrestlers' 6. Szilágyi was also 4–1 overall, compared to Kangasmäki's 2–2 and Möller's 3–2. Sports-Reference says that Kangasmäki took bronze based on the victory over Möller, but does not explain Szilágyi finishing 5th.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Pietro Lombardi Decision, 3–0 Malte Möller Gyula Szilágyi Decision, 2–1 Reino Kangasmäki Kenan Olcay Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 Pietro Lombardi 2 1 3 2 Kenan Olcay 4 0 4 Reino Kangasmäki 4 2 6 4 Malte Möller 3 3 6 5 Gyula Szilágyi 4 1 5
Round 6
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Pietro Lombardi Decision, 2–1 Kenan Olcay
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total Pietro Lombardi 3 1 4 Kenan Olcay 4 2 6
References
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