The men's freestyle middleweight competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki took place from 20 July to 23 July at Messuhalli. Nations were limited to one competitor. Middleweight was the third-heaviest category, including wrestlers weighing .
Competition format This freestyle 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, removing the slight modification introduced in 1936 and used until 1948 (which had a reduced penalty for a loss by 2–1 decision). 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. 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. This elimination continued until the medal rounds, which began when 3 wrestlers remained. These 3 wrestlers each faced each other in a round-robin medal round (with earlier results counting, if any had wrestled another before); record within the medal round determined medals, with bad points breaking ties.
Results
Round 1
Everaerts withdrew after his bout.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Callie Reitz Fall Pio Chirinos Gustav Gocke Decision, 3–0 Eduardo Assam Haydar Zafer Decision, 3–0 Adalberto Lepri León Genuth Decision, 2–1 Veikko Lahti Gholam Reza Takhti Fall André Brunaud Dan Hodge Fall Mohamed Abdul Ramada Hussain Bengt Lindblad Decision, 2–1 David Tsimakuridze György Gurics Fall Augustus Everaerts Felix Neuhaus Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 0 1 1 6 0 1 1 6 0 1 1 6 0 1 1 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 10 0 3 3 17 0 3 3*
Round 2
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Callie Reitz Decision, 3–0 Felix Neuhaus Gustav Gocke Fall Pio Chirinos Haydar Zafer Fall Eduardo Assam León Genuth Fall Adalberto Lepri Gholam Reza Takhti Fall Veikko Lahti Mohamed Abdul Ramada Hussain Decision, 3–0 André Brunaud David Tsimakuridze Fall Dan Hodge György Gurics Decision, 2–1 Bengt Lindblad
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 7 0 3 3 7 0 3 3 7 3 0 3 10 3 1 4 10 1 3 4 12 3 3 6 12 3 3 6 12 3 3 6 12 3 3 6 12 3 3 6
Round 3
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Gustav Gocke Decision, 3–0 Felix Neuhaus Haydar Zafer Decision, 3–0 Callie Reitz Gholam Reza Takhti Fall León Genuth David Tsimakuridze Fall Mohamed Abdul Ramada Hussain Bengt Lindblad Decision, 2–1 Dan Hodge György Gurics Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 5 3 0 3 6 1 3 4 6 1 3 4 8 4 1 5 9 3 3 6 9 3 3 6 11 4 3 7
Round 4
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation György Gurics Decision, 2–1 Callie Reitz Gustav Gocke Decision, 3–0 León Genuth Gholam Reza Takhti Decision, 3–0 Haydar Zafer David Tsimakuridze Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 2 1 3 3 3 0 3 5 2 3 5 6 4 3 7 6 4 3 7
Round 5
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation David Tsimakuridze Decision, 3–0 György Gurics Gholam Reza Takhti Decision, 3–0 Gustav Gocke
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 4 3 2 3 5 4 3 3 6
Medal rounds
Tsimakuridze's victory over Gurics in round 5 counted for the medal rounds. The Soviet wrestler defeated Takhti to finish 2–0 against the other medalists and earn the gold medal. Gurics was injured after the round 5 bout and was unable to face Takhti for the silver medal.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation David Tsimakuridze Decision, 2–1 Gholam Reza Takhti Gholam Reza Takhti Walkover György Gurics
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation Wins Losses Start Earned Total 2 0 4 1 5 1 1 2 3 5 0 2 5 3 8
References
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