The men's freestyle bantamweight was a

freestyle wrestling Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling ...

event held as part of the

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, 192 ...

programme. It was the fourth appearance of the event.

Bantamweight Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In mixed martial arts, MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class is derived from Ba ...

was the lightest category, including wrestlers weighing up to 56 kilograms.

Kaarlo Mäkinen Kaarlo Mäkinen (14 May 1892 – 11 May 1980) was a Finnish wrestler who competed at the 1920, 1924 and 1928 Olympics in freestyle wrestling Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. A ...

, the silver medalist at the previous Games, won the event.

Results

Source: Official results; Wudarski

Gold medal round

Silver medal round

Bronze medal round

References

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