Adolf Lindfors
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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, where we became injured and had to withdraw, and 1920 Olympics, where he won a gold medal, aged 41. 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. In 1902, he founded ''Porvoon Akilles'' and headed it from 1902 to 1912.


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* * 1879 births 1959 deaths Olympic wrestlers for Finland Wrestlers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Finnish male sport wrestlers Olympic gold medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Porvoo Sport wrestlers from Uusimaa World Wrestling Championships medalists 20th-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-Olympic-medalist-stub