Heavyweight, Freestyle (>82½ kg), Men

Robert Roth of Switzerland won the gold medal by defeating Nat Pendleton of the United States in the finals. Hans Roth, brother of Robert, competed in this class in 1924, at Paris, but was eliminated after the second round. Roth was the only Olympic competitor, and the only wrestler not from Austria, Germany, or Hungary, who competed in the 1920 World Greco-Roman Championships. In the heavyweight class, he finished 6th and last in that event.

There is some confusion over the third place in this event. The match between Fred Meyer and Ernst Nilsson ended in a draw. Official regulations mention that a judge should pick a winner in such case, but apparently this did not occur. Contemporary sources contradict each other and themselves on whether these wrestlers were ranked third or fourth. Notably, both the Official Report and the US Olympic Committee Report list them as third in one place, yet as fourth in another. We have chosen to list them in third place, as this seems the most sensible.