Anton Koolmann

Anton Koolmann was an Estonian wrestler and coach, born on 11 September 1899 in Kuusalu Parish and dead on 29 June 1953 in Wellington, New Zealand. After winning the Estonian Greco-Roman championships he took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he entered both the Greco-Roman bantamweight and the freestyle featherweight events and finished between tenth and sixteenth place without reaching the medal rounds. He did not go home after the Games. He reached Adelaide in Australia in February 1925 and turned professional, winning Australian state and amateur titles and the Australian middleweight championship from Hughie Whitman. In 1928 he moved to New Zealand, where he was naturalised in 1933, wrestled Gus Sonnenberg in 1934 and in the late 1930s trained many New Zealand champions at his gym in Wellington.