Robert Oksa

Robert Aleksander Oksa (13 February 1893 – 30 May 1967) was a Finnish-born wrestler and wrestling coach. He was the head coach of the Estonian and Swedish national teams in the 1920s–1950s.

Life Oksa was a railroad worker who won three Finnish championship titles in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1915–1917. During the 1917 General Strike, Oksa joined the Turku militia and in the 1918 Civil War of Finland he fought for the Red Guards. In April 1918, Oksa was captured by the German troops and sent to the Tammisaari prison camp, but he managed to escape and fled to Sweden. Oksa also shortly lived in St. Petersburg where he was acquainted with the members of the exile Communist Party of Finland.

In 1923–1924, Oksa was the head coach of the Estonian national wrestling team. One of his personal trainees was the 1924 Olympic bronze medalist Roman Steinberg. In 1924, Oksa returned Finland and worked as the head coach of the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation. Oksa was granted the Swedish citizenship in 1944.