The fifth Modern Olympic Games were held from 5th May to 27th July at Olympiastadion, in Stockholm, Sweden in 1912. The Stockholm celebration of the Olympic Games was reduced to 10 weeks. By tradition, each host country is allowed to stage an event of their choice; after all they are laying on the games. In 1912 the Swedes introduced the modern Pentathlon and it was no surprise that they dominated the event.
A total number 14 sport, 102 events and there were 2407 athletes’ competed in the fifth Modern Olympic Games from 28 countries. For the first time participants came from all the continents symbolized in the Olympic ring. Women's events in swimming and diving were introduced in this Olympiad.
The fifth Modern Olympic Games, wrestling competitions were held from July 6th to 15th July 1912. A total of 170 wrestlers from 18 nations competed at the Stockholm Games. There were five wrestling events were contested and all for men in the Greco-Roman style.
Wrestling was conducted on three 5 x 5 meter mats in the Olympic Stadium, exposing the wrestlers to the hot sun throughout the matches. A small nearby enclosure was used as a reserve arena in the event of rain, and a few bouts did take place there. The bouts were in 30-minute rounds, with three judges. After each 30-minute round, the judges could declare a winner or order another round, with no limit to the number of rounds. In the event that neither wrestler was aggressive enough, the judges could declare both wrestlers to have lost (today called disqualification due to passivity).
The light heavyweight final between a Swede, Anders Ahlgren, and a Finn, Ivar Bohling, lasted nine hours and match was finally declared a tie. Since neither had gained an advantage over the other, no gold medal was awarded. Each received a silver medal.
The 1912 Olympics was the last time that gold medals were solid gold. Ever since, they've been silver with gold plating. The lists of medal winners in Greco-Roman style in all categories are given below.
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Gold medal winners were Kaarlo Koskelo, Emil Väre, Claes Johansson, Yrjö Saarela. Silver medal Winners were Georg Gerstäcker, Gustaf Malmström, Martin Klein, Anders Ahlgren, Ivar Böhling and Johan Olin. Bronze medal Winners were Otto Lasanen, Edvin Mattiasson, Alfred Asikainen, Béla Varga and Søren Marinus Jensen.
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