Adolf Lindfors

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.

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.

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.