Kalle Anttila | |
Birth Date: | 1887 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Muhos, Finland |
Death Place: | Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
Sport: | Wrestling |
Event: | Greco-Roman Freestyle |
Club: | Sport Tallinn |
Coach: | Anton Ohaka |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Kaarlo Johan Jalmari "Kalle" Anttila (30 August 1887 – 10 October 1949) was a Finnish wrestler. He won Olympic gold medals in the freestyle lightweight category in 1920 and in the Greco-Roman featherweight division in 1924. He also won world titles in the Greco-Roman featherweight in 1921 and 1922. Anttila was the Finnish champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1918–20 and 1929 and in freestyle wrestling in 1924 and 1929. He was born and raised in Finland In 1887, his family immigrated to Canada at the age of 4 where he was raised to work hard on a family farm. He died in 1949 and was buried in Sudbury.[1]