Wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics

At the 1928 Summer Olympics, thirteen wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were six weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and seven classes in freestyle wrestling. The freestyle competitions were held from July 30 to August 1, 1928 and the Greco-Roman events were held from August 2 to August 5, 1928.

Medal summary

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Kaarlo Mäkinen  Finland	Edmond Spapen  Belgium	James Trifunov 23x15px Canada
Featherweight	Allie Morrison  United States	Kustaa Pihlajamäki  Finland	Hans Minder  Switzerland
Lightweight	Osvald Käpp  Estonia	Charles Pacôme  France	Eino Augusti Leino  Finland
Welterweight	Arvo Haavisto  Finland	Lloyd Appleton  United States	Maurice Letchford 23x15px Canada
Middleweight	Ernst Kyburz  Switzerland	Donald Stockton 23x15px Canada	Samuel Rabin  Great Britain
Light Heavyweight	Thure Sjöstedt  Sweden	Arnold Bögli  Switzerland	Henri Lefèbre  France
Heavyweight	Johan Richthoff  Sweden	Aukusti Sihvola  Finland	Edmond Dame  France

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bantamweight	Kurt Leucht  Germany	Jindrich Maudr  Czechoslovakia	Giovanni Gozzi  Italy
Featherweight	Voldemar Väli  Estonia	Eric Malmberg  Sweden	Gerolamo Quaglia  Italy
Lightweight	Lajos Keresztes  Hungary	Eduard Sperling  Germany	Edvard Westerlund  Finland
Middleweight	Väinö Kokkinen  Finland	László Papp  Hungary	Albert Kusnets  Estonia
Light Heavyweight	Ibrahim Moustafa 23x15px Egypt	Adolf Rieger  Germany	Onni Pellinen  Finland
Heavyweight	Rudolf Svensson  Sweden	Hjalmar Nyström  Finland	Georg Gehring  Germany

Participating nations

166 wrestlers from 29 nations competed. Argentina competed in wrestling for the first time.

Argentina (5)  Australia (3)  Austria (2)  Belgium (13) 23x15px Canada (5)  Czechoslovakia (6)  Denmark (7) 23x15px Egypt (4)  Estonia (6)  Finland (13)

France (13)  Germany (6)  Great Britain (6)  Greece (3)  Hungary (6)  Italy (5)  Japan (1)  Latvia (2)  Luxembourg (3)  Netherlands (6)

Norway (7)  Poland (4)  Portugal (1) 23x15px South Africa (1)  Sweden (9)  Switzerland (11)  Turkey (6)  United States (7)  Yugoslavia (5)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland (FIN)	3	3	3	9
2	Sweden (SWE)	3	1	0	4
3	Estonia (EST)	2	0	1	3
4	Germany (GER)	1	2	1	4
5	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	1	3
6	United States (USA)	1	1	0	2
	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	0	2
8	Egypt Egypt (EGY)	1	0	0	1
9	Canada Canada (CAN)	0	1	2	3
	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
11	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
12	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1

See also

List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling

List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling

United States results in men's freestyle wrestling