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Middleweight A, Greco-Roman (≤75 kilograms), Men

Date6 – 15 July 1912
StatusOlympic
LocationStockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm
Participants38 from 14 countries
FormatDouble-elimination tournament. When three or fewer wrestlers remained, they advanced to a final-round tournament.

Alois Totuschek of Austria had won two international championships in 1909 and 1910 in this weight class, while Alfred )Alppo) Asikainen (FIN) had triumphed at a 1911 meet in Helsinki. Totuschek lost his first round match against Sweden’s Claes Johanson, and was eliminated after losing in the fourth round.

Asikainen fared better, advancing to the round one of the finals where he met Martin “Max” Klein, who was from Estonia and represented Russia in 1912. In their match, Klein and Asikainen wrestled for 11 hours under a hot sun before Klein finally prevailed by pinning the Finn. But he was so exhausted from the effort that he could not continue and Johanson, who he was to have met in the final match, won the gold medal by default. Johanson later won the European championship in 1913 and in 1920 at Antwerp, won another Olympic gold medal, this time wrestling as a light-heavyweight.

PosCompetitor(s)NOC
1Claes JohansonSWEGold
2Martin KleinRUSSilver
3Alppo AsikainenFINBronze
AC r7/8August JokinenFIN
AC r7/8Konrad ÅbergFIN
AC r6/8Jan SintNED
AC r5/8Mikko HolmFIN
AC r5/8Fridolf LundstenFIN
AC r5/8Emil WesterlundFIN
AC r5/8Edvin FältströmSWE
AC r4/8Peter KokotowitschAUT
AC r4/8Alois TotuschekAUT
AC r4/8Theodor TirkkonenFIN
AC r4/8Joseph MerkleGER
AC r4/8Árpád MiskeyHUN
AC r4/8Andrea GarganoITA
AC r4/8Mauritz AnderssonSWE
AC r4/8Fritz JohanssonSWE
AC r3/8Adolf KurzGER
AC r3/8Willi SteputatGER
AC r3/8Zavire CarcereriITA
AC r3/8Jānis PolisRUS
AC r3/8Aleksandr SeverovRUS
AC r3/8Axel FrankSWE
AC r3/8Joaquim VitalPOR
AC r2/8Anders AndersenDEN
AC r2/8Hvitfeldt HansenDEN
AC r2/8Adrien BarrierFRA
AC r2/8Edgar BaconGBR
AC r2/8Stanley BaconGBR
AC r2/8Noel RhysGBR
AC r2/8Anastasios AntonopoulosGRE
AC r2/8Rezső SomogyiHUN
AC r2/8Theodor BergqvistSWE
AC r2/8Theodor DahlbergSWE
AC r2/8Sven OhlssonSWE
AC r1/8Alfred GundersenNOR
AC r1/8Viktor MelinSWE

Round One (6 – 10 July 1912)

Match #1 Edvin FältströmSWE
fall (5:00)
Anastasios AntonopoulosGRE
Match #2 Peter KokotowitschAUT
fall (10:00)
Andrea GarganoITA
Match #3 Jānis PolisRUS
fall (21:45)
Stanley BaconGBR
Match #4 August JokinenFIN
fall (2:55)
Alfred GundersenNOR
Match #5 Alppo AsikainenFIN
fall (23:42)
Edgar BaconGBR
Match #6 Fridolf LundstenFIN
fall (46:35)
Viktor MelinSWE
Match #7 Zavire CarcereriITA
fall (4:00)
Joaquim VitalPOR
Match #8 Mauritz AnderssonSWE
fall (8:17)
Adrien BarrierFRA
Match #9 Axel FrankSWE
decision (1-00)
Aleksandr SeverovRUS
Match #10 Emil WesterlundFIN
decision (1-00)
Theodor DahlbergSWE
Match #11 Claes JohansonSWE
fall (7:09)
Alois TotuschekAUT
Match #12 Theodor TirkkonenFIN
fall (5:06)
Noel RhysGBR
Match #13 Jan SintNED
fall (44:06)
Sven OhlssonSWE
Match #14 Fritz JohanssonSWE
fall (43:05)
Hvitfeldt HansenDEN
Match #15 Árpád MiskeyHUN
fall (12:15)
Theodor BergqvistSWE
Match #16 Martin KleinRUS
fall (4:21)
Rezső SomogyiHUN
Match #17 Adolf KurzGER
decision (1-00)
Anders AndersenDEN
Match #18 Joseph MerkleGER
fall (6:30)
Mikko HolmFIN
Match #19 Konrad ÅbergFIN
fall (8:00)
Willi SteputatGER

Round Two (10 July 1912)

Match #1 Andrea GarganoITA
fall (1:04)
Anastasios AntonopoulosGRE
Match #2 Edvin FältströmSWE
fall (17:00)
Peter KokotowitschAUT
Match #3 August JokinenFIN
fall (6:00)
Jānis PolisRUS
Match #4 Alppo AsikainenFIN walkover
Match #5 Fridolf LundstenFIN walkover
Match #6 Mauritz AnderssonSWE
fall (11:00)
Zavire CarcereriITA
Match #7 Joaquim VitalPOR walkover
Match #8 Axel FrankSWE
DQ (both passivity) (1-00)
Emil WesterlundFIN
Match #9 Aleksandr SeverovRUS
decision (1-00)
Theodor DahlbergSWE
Match #10 Claes JohansonSWE
decision (1-00)
Theodor TirkkonenFIN
Match #11 Alois TotuschekAUT walkover
Match #12 Jan SintNED
fall (4:00)
Hvitfeldt HansenDEN
Match #13 Árpád MiskeyHUN
decision (1-00)
Sven OhlssonSWE
Match #14 Fritz JohanssonSWE
fall (1:00)
Rezső SomogyiHUN
Match #15 Martin KleinRUS
fall (4:00)
Theodor BergqvistSWE
Match #16 Mikko HolmFIN
fall (9:00)
Anders AndersenDEN
Match #17 Konrad ÅbergFIN
fall (3:00)
Adolf KurzGER
Match #18 Joseph MerkleGER bye
Match #19 Willi SteputatGER bye

Round Three (10 July 1912)

Match #1 Joseph MerkleGER
fall (3:00)
Edvin FältströmSWE
Match #2 Andrea GarganoITA walkover
Match #3 Peter KokotowitschAUT
fall (23:00)
Jānis PolisRUS
Match #4 August JokinenFIN
fall (2:30)
Zavire CarcereriITA
Match #5 Alppo AsikainenFIN
fall (3:00)
Joaquim VitalPOR
Match #6 Fridolf LundstenFIN
decision (1-00)
Mauritz AnderssonSWE
Match #7 Alois TotuschekAUT
fall (21:50)
Axel FrankSWE
Match #8 Claes JohansonSWE walkover
Match #9 Emil WesterlundFIN
fall (11:00)
Jan SintNED
Match #10 Theodor TirkkonenFIN
fall (43:00)
Fritz JohanssonSWE
Match #11 Martin KleinRUS
fall (11:30)
Árpád MiskeyHUN
Match #12 Mikko HolmFIN walkover
Match #13 Konrad ÅbergFIN
fall (7:42)
Joseph MerkleGER

Round Four (10 – 11 July 1912)

Match #1 Edvin FältströmSWE
fall (2:00)
Andrea GarganoITA
Match #2 August JokinenFIN
fall (20:54)
Peter KokotowitschAUT
Match #3 Alppo AsikainenFIN walkover
Match #4 Claes JohansonSWE
decision (30:00)
Fridolf LundstenFIN
Match #5 Emil WesterlundFIN
fall (16:56)
Alois TotuschekAUT
Match #6 Jan SintNED
fall (20:00)
Theodor TirkkonenFIN
Match #7 Mikko HolmFIN
fall (21:00)
Fritz JohanssonSWE
Match #8 Konrad ÅbergFIN
decision (12:00)
Árpád MiskeyHUN
Match #9 Martin KleinRUS
decision (1-00)
Joseph MerkleGER

Round Five (11 July 1912)

Match #1 August JokinenFIN
decision (10:00)
Edvin FältströmSWE
Match #2 Alppo AsikainenFIN
DQ (both passivity) (1-00)
Claes JohansonSWE
Match #3 Jan SintNED walkover
Match #4 Martin KleinRUS
DQ (both passivity) (1-00)
Emil WesterlundFIN
Match #5 Konrad ÅbergFIN
decision (6:00)
Mikko HolmFIN

Round Six (13 July 1912)

Match #1 Claes JohansonSWE
fall (50:00)
August JokinenFIN
Match #2 Alppo AsikainenFIN
fall (4:30)
Jan SintNED
Match #3 Martin KleinRUS
decision (1-00)
Konrad ÅbergFIN

Round Seven (—)

Match #1 Martin KleinRUS
decision (1-30)
August JokinenFIN
Match #2 Claes JohansonSWE
decision (26:00)
Konrad ÅbergFIN
Match #3 Alppo AsikainenFIN bye

Final Round One (15 July 1912)

Match #1 Martin KleinRUS
decision (11-40)
Alppo AsikainenFIN
Match #2 Claes JohansonSWE bye

Final Round Two (15 July 1912)

Match #1 Claes JohansonSWE walkover
Match #2 Martin KleinRUS bye

Final Round Three (15 July 1912)

Match #1 Claes JohansonSWE walkover