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

The Greco-Roman light heavyweight 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 light heavyweight was the second-heaviest weight class, allowing wrestlers up to 93 kilograms (205 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 | Verner Weckman | Finland |
| 2 | Yrjö Saarela | Finland |
| 3 | Carl Jensen | Denmark |
| 4 | Hugó Payr | Hungary |
| 5 | Alfred Banbrook | Great Britain |
| 5 | Marcel Dubois | Belgium |
| 5 | Fritz Larsson | Sweden |
| 5 | Jacob van Westrop | Netherlands |
| 9 | Cyril Brown | Great Britain |
| 9 | Jussi Kivimäki | Finland |
| 9 | August Meesen | Belgium |
| 9 | Ernest Nixson | Great Britain |
| 9 | Leendert van Oosten | Netherlands |
| 9 | William West | Great Britain |
| 9 | Douwe Wijbrands | Netherlands |
| 9 | Yevgeny Zamotin | Russia |
| 17 | Harald Christiansen | Denmark |
| 17 | Henry Foskett | Great Britain |
| 17 | György Luntzer | Hungary |
| 17 | Henri Nielsen | Denmark |
| 17 | Miroslav Šustera | Bohemia |

### Bracket

| First Round | Second Round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final |
| Decision | | | |
| Fritz Larsson (SWE) | | | |
| Fritz Larsson (SWE) | Decision | | |
| Harald Christiansen (DEN) | Decision | | |
| Harald Christiansen (DEN) | Fritz Larsson (SWE) | | |
| Fall (5:33) | Fritz Larsson (SWE) | | |
| Fall (5:33) | Douwe Wijbrands (NED) | | |
| Douwe Wijbrands (NED) | Douwe Wijbrands (NED) | | |
| Douwe Wijbrands (NED) | | Fall (4:10) | |
| György Luntzer (HUN) | | Fall (4:10) | |
| György Luntzer (HUN) | | Fritz Larsson (SWE) | |
| Fall (7:29) | | Fritz Larsson (SWE) | |
| Fall (7:29) | | Verner Weckman (FIN) | |
| Walter West (GBR) | | Verner Weckman (FIN) | |
| Walter West (GBR) | Fall (1:53) | | |
| Miroslav Šustera (BOH) | Fall (1:53) | | |
| Miroslav Šustera (BOH) | Walter West (GBR) | | |
| | Verner Weckman (FIN) | | |
| | | | Fall (11:36) |
| | | | Verner Weckman (FIN) |
| | | | Hugó Payr (HUN) |
| | Fall (9:08) | | |
| | Hugó Payr (HUN) | | |
| | Yevgeny Zamotin (RU1) | | |
| | | Decision | |
| | | Hugó Payr (HUN) | |
| | | Jacob van Westrop (NED) | |
| | Decision | | |
| | Jacob van Westrop (NED) | | |
| | Jussi Kivimäki (FIN) | | |
| | | | | 2–1 (fall by 4:22/fall (5:07)/fall (16:10)) |
| | | | | Verner Weckman (FIN) |
| Fall (3:50) | | | | Verner Weckman (FIN) |
| Fall (3:50) | | | | Yrjö Saarela (FIN) |
| Yrjö Saarela (FIN) | | | | Yrjö Saarela (FIN) |
| Yrjö Saarela (FIN) | Fall (2:31) | | | |
| Henri Nielsen (DEN) | Fall (2:31) | | | |
| Henri Nielsen (DEN) | Yrjö Saarela (FIN) | | | |
| | Ernest Nixson (GBR) | | | |
| | | Fall (12:24) | | |
| | | Yrjö Saarela (FIN) | | |
| Fall (1:30) | | Yrjö Saarela (FIN) | | |
| Fall (1:30) | | Marcel Dubois (BEL) | | |
| Marcel Dubois (BEL) | | Marcel Dubois (BEL) | | |
| Marcel Dubois (BEL) | Fall (1:35) | | | |
| Henry Foskett (GBR) | Fall (1:35) | | | |
| Henry Foskett (GBR) | Marcel Dubois (BEL) | | | |
| | Cyril Brown (GBR) | | | |
| | | | Fall (5:35) | |
| | | | Yrjö Saarela (FIN) | |
| | | | Carl Jensen (DEN) | Third place |
| | Fall (8:41) | | | 2–0 (falls 2:04/1:40) |
| | Carl Jensen (DEN) | | | Carl Jensen (DEN) |
| | Leendert van Oosten (NED) | | | Hugó Payr (HUN) |
| | | Fall (2:28) | | |
| | | Carl Jensen (DEN) | | |
| | | Alfred Banbrook (GBR) | | |
| | Fall (7:11) | | | |
| | Alfred Banbrook (GBR) | | | |
| | August Meesen (BEL) | | | |