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Welterweight, Freestyle (≤72 kg), Men

Date	11 – 14 July 1924
Status	Olympic
Location	Vélodrome d'Hiver, Paris
Participants	13 from 7 countries
Format	Single-elimination tournament with separate single-elimination tournaments for second- and third-place. Second-place tournament conducted among those losing to the winner. Third-place tournament conducted among those losing to the winner or runner-up.

Finland’s Eino Leino had won a gold medal in freestyle middleweight at the 1920 Olympics, but had now dropped down to welterweight and was favored. However, in the semi-finals Leino was decisioned by Swiss Hermann Gehri, who had no international credentials. Gehri then defeated American Guy Lookabaugh for the gold medal.

Leino went into the second-place Bergvall tournament, defeating Lookabaugh in the first match, and then decisioning another unknown American, William Johnson, to win the silver medal. Otto Müller, a Swiss teammate of Gehri’s, had lost his first-round match to Lookabaugh, but in the third-place tournament defeated Johnson in the final match to take the bronze medal. This was the only international tournament known for Müller, but Gehri came back in 1930 to win a European Championship.

Pos	Competitor	NOC
1	Hermann Gehri	SUI	Gold
2	Eino Leino	FIN	Silver
3	Otto Müller	SUI	Bronze
4	William Johnson	USA
=5	Donald Stockton	CAN
=5	John Davis	GBR
=7	Guy Lookabaugh	USA
=7	Frits Janssens	BEL
=7	Hyacinthe Roosen	BEL
10	Gaston Fichu	FRA
11	Edgar Bacon	GBR
=12	Fridolf Lundsten	FIN
=12	Marcel Dupraz	FRA
DNS	Jan Saenen	BEL
DNS	L. Hallin	BEL
DNS	Charles Frisenfeldt	DEN
DNS	Albert Kusnets	EST
DNS	Väinö Penttala	FIN
DNS	Juti Ikavalko	FIN
DNS	C. Mercklen	FRA
DNS	W. E. Dowling	GBR
DNS	Eugène Gonseth	SUI
DNS	Fernand Reymond	SUI
DNS	Kenneth Truckenmiller	USA

Round One

Date	11 July 1924

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	11 Jul	Donald Stockton	CAN
Match #2	11 Jul	Edgar Bacon	GBR
Match #3	11 Jul	Guy Lookabaugh	USA	Decision	Otto Müller	SUI
Match #4	11 Jul	John Davis	GBR	Decision	Fridolf Lundsten	FIN
Match #5	11 Jul	Eino Leino	FIN	Fall	Frits Janssens	BEL
Match #6	11 Jul	Hyacinthe Roosen	BEL	Fall	Marcel Dupraz	FRA
Match #7	11 Jul	Hermann Gehri	SUI	Fall	Gaston Fichu	FRA
Match #8	11 Jul	William Johnson	USA

Quarter-Finals

Date	12 July 1924

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	12 Jul	Donald Stockton	CAN	Decision	Edgar Bacon	GBR
Match #2	12 Jul	Guy Lookabaugh	USA	Fall	John Davis	GBR
Match #3	12 Jul	Eino Leino	FIN	Decision	Hyacinthe Roosen	BEL
Match #4	12 Jul	Hermann Gehri	SUI	Decision	William Johnson	USA

Semi-Finals

Date	13 July 1924

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	13 Jul	Guy Lookabaugh	USA	Fall	Donald Stockton	CAN
Match #2	13 Jul	Hermann Gehri	SUI	Fall	Eino Leino	FIN

Final Round

Date	14 July 1924

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match 1/2	14 Jul	Hermann Gehri	SUI	Decision	Guy Lookabaugh	USA

2nd-Place Semi-Finals

Date	14 July 1924

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	14 Jul	Eino Leino	FIN	Decision	Guy Lookabaugh	USA
Match #2	14 Jul	William Johnson	USA	Fall	Gaston Fichu	FRA

2nd-Place Final Round

Date	14 July 1924

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	14 Jul	Eino Leino	FIN	Decision	William Johnson	USA

3rd-Place Quarter-Finals

Date	14 July 1924

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	14 Jul	William Johnson	USA
Match #2	14 Jul	John Davis	GBR
Match #3	14 Jul	Otto Müller	SUI
Match #4	14 Jul	Donald Stockton	CAN

3rd-Place Semi-Finals

Date	14 July 1924

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	14 Jul	William Johnson	USA	Decision	John Davis	GBR
Match #2	14 Jul	Otto Müller	SUI	Decision	Donald Stockton	CAN

3rd-Place Final Round

Date	14 July 1924

Match	Date/Time	Competitor	NOC	Result	Competitor	NOC
Match #1	14 Jul	Otto Müller	SUI	Decision	William Johnson	USA