Adolf Valentin "Adi" Lindfors (8 February 1879 – 5 May 1959) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...

. 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. Back in 1902 he founded ''Porvoon Akilles'' and headed it from 1902 to 1912.

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* 1879 births 1959 deaths Olympic wrestlers of 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 People from Porvoo World Wrestling Championships medalists Sportspeople from Uusimaa 19th-century Finnish people 20th-century Finnish people {{Finland-Olympic-medalist-stub