Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman welterweight

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{{Infobox Olympic event

|event = Men's Greco-Roman welterweight

|games = 1948 Summer

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|venue = Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre

|dates = 3–6 August 1948

|competitors = 16

|nations = 16

|gold = Gösta Andersson

|goldNOC = SWE

|silver = Miklós Szilvási

|silverNOC = HUN

|bronze = Henrik Hansen

|bronzeNOC = DEN

|prev = 1936

|next = 1952

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The men's Greco-Roman welterweight competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London took place from 3 August to 6 August at the Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Nations were limited to one competitor.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1948/WRE/mens-welterweight-greco-roman.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132121/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1948/WRE/mens-welterweight-greco-roman.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Wrestling at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Welterweight, Greco-Roman |work=Sports Reference |access-date=3 March 2019}} Welterweight is the fourth-heaviest category, including wrestlers weighing {{convert|67|to|73|kg|lbs|1}}.{{sfn|Official Report|1951|p=501}}

This Greco-Roman 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.{{sfn|Official Report|1951|p=496}}