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Wrestling at the 1948 London Summer Games:

Men's Light-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman Round Three

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Host City: London, Great Britain
Venue(s): Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Kensington, London
Date Started: August 5, 1948
Date Finished: August 5, 1948

Gold: SWE Karl-Erik Nilsson
Silver: FIN Kelpo Gröndahl
Bronze: EGY Ibrahim Orabi

Round Three

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC BP
1 Ibrahim Orabi Egypt EGY 0
2 Kelpo Gröndahl 28 Finland FIN 1
3 Karl-Erik Nilsson 26 Sweden SWE 2
4 Ken Richmond 22 Great Britain GBR 3
5T Erling Stuer Lauridsen 31 Denmark DEN 4
5T Gyula Kovács 30 Hungary HUN 4
7 Peter Enzinger 32 Austria AUT 6 eliminated
8T Karel Istaz 23 Belgium BEL 7 eliminated
8T Mustafa Avcioğlu-Çakmak 38 Turkey TUR 7 eliminated

Round Three

Unit Date Result
Match #1 1948-08-05 Richmond (GBR) fall (6:26), Avcioğlu-Çakmak (TUR)
Match #2 1948-08-05 Kovács (HUN) fall (4:01), Istaz (BEL)
Match #3 1948-08-05 Nilsson (SWE) decision (3-0), Lauridsen (DEN)
Match #4 1948-08-05 Gröndahl (FIN) decision (3-0), Enzinger (AUT)
Match #5 1948-08-05 Orabi (EGY)