# Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman middleweight

The Greco-Roman middleweight was one of four Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Like all other wrestling events, it was open only to men. The middleweight was the second-lightest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 73 kilograms (161 lb). Each nation could enter up to 12 wrestlers.

## Competition format

The event was a single-elimination tournament with a bronze medal match between the semifinal losers. The final and bronze medal match were best two-of-three, while all other rounds were a single bout. Bouts were 15 minutes, unless one wrestler lost by fall (two shoulders on the ground at the same time). Other than falls, decisions were made by the judges or, if they did not agree, the referee.
Wrestlers could "take hold only from the head and not lower than the waist." The "hair, flesh, ears, private parts, or clothes may not be seized"; striking, scratching, twisting fingers, tripping, and grabbing legs were prohibited. Holds "obtained that the fear of breakage or dislocation of a limb shall cause the wrestler to give the fall" were outlawed, and particularly the double-nelson, arm up back with bar on, hammerlock, strangle, half-strangle, hang, and flying mare with palm uppermost.

## Results
### Standings

| Place | Wrestler | Nation |
| 1 | Frithiof Mårtensson | Sweden |
| 2 | Mauritz Andersson | Sweden |
| 3 | Anders Andersen | Denmark |
| 4 | Jóhannes Jósefsson | Iceland |
| 5 | Jaap Belmer | Netherlands |
| 5 | Johannes Eriksen | Denmark |
| 5 | Axel Frank | Sweden |
| 5 | Axel Larsson | Denmark |
| 9 | Edgar Bacon | Great Britain |
| 9 | Frederick Beck | Great Britain |
| 9 | Gerald Bradshaw | Great Britain |
| 9 | Grigory Dyomin | Russia |
| 9 | Aäron Lelie | Netherlands |
| 9 | Jacobus Lorenz | Netherlands |
| 9 | Miklós Orosz | Hungary |
| 9 | Jaroslav Týfa | Bohemia |
| 17 | Stanley Bacon | Great Britain |
| 17 | Josef Bechynê | Bohemia |
| 17 | Harry Challstorp | Sweden |
| 17 | Gerrit Duijm | Netherlands |
| 17 | Wilhelm Grundmann | Germany |

### Bracket

| First Round | Second Round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final |
| Fall (5:04) | | | |
| Mauritz Andersson (SWE) | | | |
| Mauritz Andersson (SWE) | Decision | | |
| Stanley Bacon (GBR) | Decision | | |
| Stanley Bacon (GBR) | Mauritz Andersson (SWE) | | |
| Decision | Mauritz Andersson (SWE) | | |
| Decision | Frederick Beck (GBR) | | |
| Frederick Beck (GBR) | Frederick Beck (GBR) | | |
| Frederick Beck (GBR) | | Fall (6:22) | |
| Harry Challstorp (SWE) | | Fall (6:22) | |
| Harry Challstorp (SWE) | | Mauritz Andersson (SWE) | |
| | | Johannes Eriksen (DEN) | |
| | Fall (9:30) | | |
| | Johannes Eriksen (DEN) | | |
| | Edgar Bacon (GBR) | | |
| | | | Decision |
| | | | Mauritz Andersson (SWE) |
| | | | Jóhannes Jósepsson (DEN) |
| | Fall (12:10) | | |
| | Jóhannes Jósepsson (DEN) | | |
| | Miklós Orosz (HUN) | | |
| | | Fall (2:30) | |
| | | Jóhannes Jósepsson (DEN) | |
| | | Axel Frank (SWE) | |
| | Decision | | |
| | Axel Frank (SWE) | | |
| | Georgy Demin (RU1) | | |
| | | | | 2–0 (decision/fall (6:25)) |
| | | | | Mauritz Andersson (SWE) |
| Fall (8:54) | | | | Mauritz Andersson (SWE) |
| Fall (8:54) | | | | Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE) |
| Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE) | | | | Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE) |
| Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE) | Fall (7:57) | | | |
| Josef Bechyně (BOH) | Fall (7:57) | | | |
| Josef Bechyně (BOH) | Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE) | | | |
| | Gerald Bradshaw (GBR) | | | |
| | | Decision | | |
| | | Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE) | | |
| Fall (18:59) | | Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE) | | |
| Fall (18:59) | | Axel Larsson (DEN) | | |
| Axel Larsson (DEN) | | Axel Larsson (DEN) | | |
| Axel Larsson (DEN) | Decision | | | |
| Gerrit Duijm (NED) | Decision | | | |
| Gerrit Duijm (NED) | Axel Larsson (DEN) | | | |
| | Aäron Lelie (NED) | | | |
| | | | Fall (24:20) | |
| | | | Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE) | |
| | | | Anders Andersen (DEN) |
| | Decision | | |
| | Anders Andersen (DEN) | | |
| | Jacobus Lorenz (NED) | | |
| | | Fall (6:20) | |
| | | Anders Andersen (DEN) | |
| Fall (3:54) | | Anders Andersen (DEN) | |
| Fall (3:54) | | Jaap Belmer (NED) | |
| Jaap Belmer (NED) | | Jaap Belmer (NED) | |
| Jaap Belmer (NED) | Fall (6:00) | | |
| Wilhelm Grundmann (GER) | Fall (6:00) | | |
| Wilhelm Grundmann (GER) | Jaap Belmer (NED) | | |
| | Jaroslav Týfa (BOH) | | |