Calixte Delmas

Calixte Delmas (17 June 1906 – 7 April 1927) was a French wrestler and rugby player. He competed in the freestyle featherweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[1]

Calixte Delmas
Born(1906-06-17)17 June 1906
Perpignan, France
Died7 April 1927(1927-04-07) (aged 20)
Joinville-le-Pont, France

In 1922, he was the wrestling champion of Paris and the Greco-Roman vice-champion of France at 15. In 1924 he was the national champion and the youngest participant at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, where he reached the quarter finals.[2][1]

He died from an accident at the military school in Joinville-le-Pont.[3] He fell from a human pyramid and broke his neck.[2]

There is a statue of him by Raymond Sudre in the Cimetière Sud de Saint-Mandé (South Cemetery of Saint-Mandé).[2]

References
  1. "Calixte Delmas Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  2. Adam (12 May 2016). "The sporting star who fell to earth". The sporting star who fell to earth ~ Invisible Paris. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  3. Alpra, Bob (27 March 2015). "jean-luc/alpra/bob: LUTTEURS...........de père en FILS ( 1886 / 2015 )". jean-luc/alpra/bob. Retrieved 28 November 2018.


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