[1] Light heavyweight was the second-heaviest category, including wrestlers weighing 79 to 87 kilograms (174.2 to 191.8 lb).

[2] 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.

A split decision resulted in neither wrestler receiving enough points to be eliminated.

The result was again a split decision, but this time Fahlkvist had enough points to be eliminated.

With only two wrestlers left, tied on points, round 8 was a de facto gold medal match.