Adolf Lindfors
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| Born |
8 February 1879 Porvoo, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
5 May 1959 (aged 80) Porvoo, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Porvoon Akilles | ||||||||||||||||||
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Adolf Valentin "Adi" Lindfors (8 February 1879 – 5 May 1959) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He competed at the 1912 and 1920 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1920, aged 41. At the 1912 Olympics he got injured and had to withdraw.[1]
Lindfors started seriously training in sports around 1900, and won Finnish titles in weightlifting in 1903–04 and in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1905, 1910 and 1913. He placed second at the 1911 World Championships. Back in 1902 he founded Porvoon Akilles and headed it from 1902 to 1912.[1]
In addition to sport, Lindfors appeared as an actor in approximately three Finnish silent films in the early 1920s. The first of which was 1923's Karl Fager-directed feature-length Rautakylän vanha paroon, followed by the 1923 Erkki Karu-directed Nummisuutarit ("The Village Shoemakers") and in the 1924 Adolf Lindroos-directed Polyteekkarifilmi, in which he portrayed the Greek god Dionysos.[2]
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- 1 2 "Adolf Lindfors". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
- ↑ Elonet Retrieved 18 April 2016.