Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle welterweight
Rank Wrestler Nation Start Earned Total
1 Yaşar Doğu Turkey 0 0 0
2 Dick Garrard Australia 1 1 2
2 Jean-Baptiste Leclerc France 1 1 2
2 Leland Merrill United States 1 1 2
5 Hwang Byeong-gwan South Korea 1 2 3
5 Harry Peace Canada 3 0 3
5 Kálmán Sóvári Hungary 1 2 3
5 Abbas Zandi Iran 0 3 3
9 Willy Angst Switzerland 3 1 4
9 Anant Bhargava India 3 1 4
9 Adel Ibrahim Moustafa Egypt 3 1 4
9 Frans Westergren Sweden 1 3 4
13 Eduardo Estrada Mexico 3 2 5
13 Don Irvine Great Britain 2 3 5
15 Louis Culot Belgium 3 3 6
15 Aleksanteri Keisala Finland 3 3 6
Results -- Round 2
Bouts Winner Nation Victory Type Loser Nation Dick Garrard Australia Decision , 2–1 Kálmán Sóvári Hungary Willy Angst Switzerland Decision , 3–0 Aleksanteri Keisala Finland Anant Bhargava India Decision , 2–1 Eduardo Estrada Mexico Yaşar Doğu Turkey Fall Abbas Zandi Iran Adel Ibrahim Moustafa Egypt Decision , 2–1 Hwang Byeong-gwan South Korea Jean-Baptiste Leclerc France Decision , 3–0 Louis Culot Belgium Leland Merrill United States Decision , 3–0 Frans Westergren Sweden Harry Peace Canada Fall Don Irvine Great Britain Points
The men's freestyle welterweight competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London took place from 29 July to 31 July at the Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Nations were limited to one competitor. This freestyle wrestling competition continued to use the bad points elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, with the slight modification introduced in 1936. Each round featured all wrestlers pairing off and wrestling one bout (with one wrestler having a bye if there were an odd number). The loser received 3 points if the loss was by fall or unanimous decision and 2 points if the decision was 2-1 (this was the modification from prior years, where all losses were 3 points). The winner received 1 point if the win was by decision and 0 points if the win was by fall. At the end of each round, any wrestler with at least 5 points was eliminated.