The men's Greco-Roman lightweight was one of thirteen wrestling events held as part of the wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme.1928 Summer Olympics - Official Report The competition was held from August 2 to 5, and featured 20 wrestlers from 20 nations. Lightweight was the third-lightest category, including wrestlers weighing .
Competition format
This Greco-Roman wrestling competition introduced an elimination system based on the accumulation of points. 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.Official Report, p. 853.
Results
Round 1
The first round produced 5 winners by fall (0 points), 1 bye (0 points), 4 winners by decision (1 point), and 9 losers (3 points). Parisel and Metzner-Fritz withdrew after their bouts.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Lajos Keresztes Fall Adolphe Dumont Walter Massop Decision Miroslav Metzner-Fritz Einar Borges Decision Ernst Mumenthaler Frits Janssens Fall Paul Parisel Vladimír Vávra Fall Ede Sperling Osvald Käpp Fall Piero Postini Harald Pettersson Decision Vasilios Pavlidis Tayyar Yalaz Decision Ryszard Błażyca Edvard Westerlund Fall Alberto Barbieri Karl Pedersen Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation R1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 7 1 7 1 7 1 7 1 11 3 11 3 11 3 11 3 11 3 11 3 11 3 18 3* 18 3*
Round 2
Vávra and Westerlund were the only 2 out of the 6 men who started with 0 points to finish with 0 points, Westerlund with a bye and Vávra with a second win by fall. Five men were 2–0 with a win by decision and a win by fall for 1 point apiece. Pedersen, with a first-round bye, lost in the second round for 3 points. Also at 3 points were Błażyca and Sperling, who won by fall in round 2 after losing in round 1. Borges and Pettersson each received their first loss after winning by decision in round 1, for 4 points apiece. Five of the 7 wrestlers who had lost in round 1 lost again in round 2 and were eliminated.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Lajos Keresztes Decision Karl Pedersen Walter Massop Fall Adolphe Dumont Frits Janssens Decision Einar Borges Vladimír Vávra Fall Ernst Mumenthaler Ede Sperling Fall Piero Postini Osvald Käpp Decision Harald Pettersson Tayyar Yalaz Fall Vasilios Pavlidis Ryszard Błażyca Fall Alberto Barbieri Edvard Westerlund Bye N/A N/A
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation R1 R2 Total 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 3 1 0 1 3 1 0 1 8 3 0 3 8 0 3 3 8 3 0 3 11 1 3 4 11 1 3 4 13 3 3 6 13 3 3 6 13 3 3 6 13 3 3 6 13 3 3 6
Round 3
All 6 bouts in round 3 were won by fall, so all of the winners stayed at the same point score: Vávra and Westerlund at 0, Keresztes and Yalaz at 1, and Błażyca and Sperling at 3. Of the 6 losers, 3 had only had 1 point coming into the round and thus remained in competition with 4 points. Käpp, however, withdrew. The other 3 were eliminated.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Edvard Westerlund Fall Karl Pedersen Lajos Keresztes Fall Walter Massop Vladimír Vávra Fall Einar Borges Ede Sperling Fall Frits Janssens Tayyar Yalaz Fall Osvald Käpp Ryszard Błażyca Fall Harald Pettersson
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation R1 R2 R3 Total 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 3 1 0 0 1 5 3 0 0 3 5 3 0 0 3 7 0 1 3 4 7 1 0 3 4 9 0 1 3 4* 10 0 3 3 6 11 1 3 3 7 11 1 3 3 7
Round 4
Vávra and Westerlund, who started the round with 0 points, each lost to finish the round with 3 points and in 3rd place. Yalaz, who defeated Vávra, took over the lead at 1 point which he had gained in the first round before reeling off 3 wins by fall. Keresztes picked up a 2nd point in his defeat of Westerlund. Sperling won by fall to stay at 3 points and eliminate Błażyca; Massop did the same to stay at 4 and eliminate Janssens.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Lajos Keresztes Decision Edvard Westerlund Walter Massop Fall Frits Janssens Tayyar Yalaz Fall Vladimír Vávra Ede Sperling Fall Ryszard Błażyca
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation R1 R2 R3 R4 Total 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 2 3 3 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 3 3 3 0 0 0 3 3 6 1 0 3 0 4 7 3 0 0 3 6 8 0 1 3 3 7
Round 5
The leader lost again, this time Yalaz falling to Sperling. Keresztes took the lead with 2 points. Sperling followed with 3. Yalaz remained in competition at 4 points, as did Westerlund who picked up his 4th in a win by decision. Vávra, after leading with 0 points through round 3, had a second consecutive loss in round 5 and was eliminated. Massop also took his second loss and was eliminated.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Edvard Westerlund Decision Walter Massop Lajos Keresztes Fall Vladimír Vávra Ede Sperling Fall Tayyar Yalaz
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Total 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 3 1 4 3 1 0 0 0 3 4 5 0 0 0 3 3 6 6 1 0 3 0 3 7
Round 6
Keresztes maintained his lead, defeating Yalaz and eliminating the latter. Sperling won over Westerlund to stay in competition as well, with Westerlund eliminated. Because Westerlund and Yalaz both finished with 7 points, they would need to wrestle each other for the bronze while Sperling and Keresztes contested the gold medal.
Bouts
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Ede Sperling Decision Edvard Westerlund Lajos Keresztes Fall Tayyar Yalaz
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 0 0 0 3 1 3 7 3 1 0 0 0 3 3 7
Round 7
Keresztes defeated Sperling for the gold medal. Westerlund prevailed over Yalaz for the bronze.
Bronze medal bout
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Edvard Westerlund Decision Tayyar Yalaz
Gold medal bout
Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Lajos Keresztes Decision Ede Sperling
Points
Rank Wrestler Nation R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 Total 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 0 0 0 3 1 3 1 8 4 1 0 0 0 3 3 3 10
References