Calixte Delmas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Calixte Delmas

wrestler

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1906

Place of Birth: Perpignan, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Date of Death: 07-Apr-1927

Profession: rugby player, amateur wrestler

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.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.He died from an accident at the military school in Joinville-le-Pont.
He fell from a human pyramid and broke his neck.There is a statue of him by Raymond Sudre in the Cimetière Sud de Saint-Mandé (South Cemetery of Saint-Mandé).