Adolf Lindfors

Adolf Lindfors
Personal information
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)
Sport
Sport Greco-Roman wrestling
Club Porvoon Akilles

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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