The men's Greco-Roman featherweight 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. Featherweight was the third-lightest category, including wrestlers weighing .
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 Erkki Talosela Decision, 3–0 El-Sayed Mohamed Kandil Henk Dijk Decision, 3–0 Omar Blebel Luigi Campanella Fall Antonios Gryllos Egil Solsvik Decision, 3–0 Adolf Müller Safi Taha Fall Raymond Strasser Ferenc Tóth Decision, 2–1 Jan Stehlík Antoine Merle Fall Jack Mortimer Olle Anderberg Fall Georg Weidner Mehmet Oktav Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 Olle Anderberg 0 0 0 1 Luigi Campanella 0 0 0 1 Antoine Merle 0 0 0 1 Mehmet Oktav 0 0 0 1 Safi Taha 0 0 0 6 Henk Dijk 0 1 1 6 Egil Solsvik 0 1 1 6 Erkki Talosela 0 1 1 6 Ferenc Tóth 0 1 1 10 Jan Stehlík 0 2 2 11 Omar Blebel 0 3 3 11 Antonios Gryllos 0 3 3 11 El-Sayed Mohamed Kandil 0 3 3 11 Jack Mortimer 0 3 3 11 Adolf Müller 0 3 3 11 Raymond Strasser 0 3 3 11 Georg Weidner 0 3 3
Round 2
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Mehmet Oktav Decision, 3–0 Erkki Talosela El-Sayed Mohamed Kandil Decision, 3–0 Henk Dijk Antonios Gryllos Decision, 2–1 Omar Blebel Luigi Campanella Decision, 2–1 Egil Solsvik Ferenc Tóth Fall Jack Mortimer Georg Weidner Fall Raymond Strasser Safi Taha Decision, 3–0 Antoine Merle Olle Anderberg Bye N/A N/A N/A N/A Over weight Adolf Müller N/A N/A Retired Jan Stehlík
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 Olle Anderberg 0 0 0 2 Luigi Campanella 0 1 1 2 Mehmet Oktav 0 1 1 2 Safi Taha 0 1 1 2 Ferenc Tóth 1 0 1 6 Antoine Merle 0 3 3 6 Egil Solsvik 1 2 3 6 Georg Weidner 3 0 3 9 Henk Dijk 1 3 4 9 Antonios Gryllos 3 1 4 9 El-Sayed Mohamed Kandil 3 1 4 9 Erkki Talosela 1 3 4 13 Omar Blebel 3 2 5 13 Jan Stehlík 2 3 5 15 Jack Mortimer 3 3 6 15 Adolf Müller 3 3 6 15 Raymond Strasser 3 3 6
Round 3
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Mehmet Oktav Fall Olle Anderberg Erkki Talosela Fall Henk Dijk El-Sayed Mohamed Kandil Fall Antonios Gryllos Luigi Campanella Decision, 2–1 Ferenc Tóth Egil Solsvik Decision, 3–0 Antoine Merle Georg Weidner Fall Safi Taha
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 Mehmet Oktav 1 0 1 2 Luigi Campanella 1 1 2 3 Olle Anderberg 0 3 3 3 Ferenc Tóth 1 2 3 3 Georg Weidner 3 0 3 6 El-Sayed Mohamed Kandil 4 0 4 6 Egil Solsvik 3 1 4 6 Safi Taha 1 3 4 6 Erkki Talosela 4 0 4 10 Antoine Merle 3 3 6 11 Henk Dijk 4 3 7 11 Antonios Gryllos 4 3 7
Round 4
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Olle Anderberg Fall Erkki Talosela Mehmet Oktav Decision, 3–0 El-Sayed Mohamed Kandil Luigi Campanella Decision, 3–0 Safi Taha Ferenc Tóth Fall Egil Solsvik Georg Weidner Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 Mehmet Oktav 1 1 2 2 Olle Anderberg 3 0 3 2 Luigi Campanella 2 1 3 2 Ferenc Tóth 3 0 3 5 Georg Weidner 3 0 3 6 El-Sayed Mohamed Kandil 4 3 7 6 Egil Solsvik 4 3 7 6 Safi Taha 4 3 7 6 Erkki Talosela 4 3 7
Round 5
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Mehmet Oktav Decision, 2–1 Georg Weidner Olle Anderberg Fall Luigi Campanella Ferenc Tóth Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 Olle Anderberg 3 0 3 1 Mehmet Oktav 2 1 3 1 Ferenc Tóth 3 0 3 4 Georg Weidner 3 2 5 5 Luigi Campanella 3 3 6
Round 6
Of the three remaining wrestlers, Oktav had previously defeated Anderberg but Tóth had faced neither. Oktav received the bye in the sixth round. Anderberg beat Tóth, eliminating the latter. With two men who had already faced each left, previous head-to-head results were decisive and Oktav received the gold medal. (A Tóth victory over Anderberg in this round would have set up a seventh round pitting Tóth against Oktav.)
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Olle Anderberg Fall Ferenc Tóth Mehmet Oktav Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total Mehmet Oktav 3 0 3 Olle Anderberg 3 0 3 Ferenc Tóth 3 3 6
References
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