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Light-Heavyweight, Freestyle (≤87 kilograms), Men

Date1 – 3 August 1932
StatusOlympic
LocationGrand Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Participants4 from 4 countries
FormatScoring by negative points, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 5 negative points eliminated the wrestler.

Only four wrestlers made it to the mat in this class. Thure Sjöstedt (SWE) was the defending champion and was back in Los Angeles. He was challenged by American Peter Mehringer, Canadian Harry Madison, and Australian Eddie Scarf. Madison was a slight favorite but he lost by fall in round one to Scarf, as Mehringer defeated Sjöstedt by fall. When Mehringer also pinned Madison in round two, that left the Canadian out of the medals. Mehringer secured the gold with a workmanlike decision over Scarf in the final round, the silver going to Sjöstedt.

Mehringer was much better known in the United States as a football player, but would later turn to professional wrestling, mostly in New Zealand, as well as playing briefly in the NFL with the Chicago Cardinals. Scarf would later win a gold medal at the 1938 British Empire Games. In 1934 Sjöstedt would win the freestyle heavyweight class at the European Championships.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCREBad Points
1Peter MehringerUSAGold
2Thure SjöstedtSWESilver
3Eddie ScarfAUSBronze
4Harry MadisonCAN

Round One (1 August 1932)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBad Points
=1Eddie ScarfAUS0
=1Peter MehringerUSA0
=3Harry MadisonCAN3
=3Thure SjöstedtSWE3

Match #1 Peter MehringerUSA
fall (13:37)
Thure SjöstedtSWE
Match #2 Eddie ScarfAUS
fall (2:26)
Harry MadisonCAN

Round Two (2 August 1932)

PosCompetitor(s)NOCBad Points
1Peter MehringerUSA0
2Eddie ScarfAUS3
3Thure SjöstedtSWE4
4Harry MadisonCAN6eliminated

Match #1 Thure SjöstedtSWE
decision
Eddie ScarfAUS
Match #2 Peter MehringerUSA
fall (14:44)
Harry MadisonCAN

Final Round (3 August 1932)

Match #1 Peter MehringerUSA
decision
Eddie ScarfAUS