[1] The heavyweight was the heaviest weight class, allowing wrestlers over 93 kilograms (205 lb).

[3] The event was a single-elimination tournament with a bronze medal match between the semifinal losers.

The final and bronze medal match were best two-of-three, while all other rounds were a single bout.

The "hair, flesh, ears, private parts, or clothes may not be seized"; striking, scratching, twisting fingers, tripping, and grabbing legs were prohibited.

Holds "obtained that the fear of breakage or dislocation of a limb shall cause the wrestler to give the fall" were outlawed, and particularly the double-nelson, arm up back with bar on, hammerlock, strangle, half-strangle, hang, and flying mare with palm uppermost.