Calixte Delmas

Calixte Delmas (18 January 1906 – 5 April 1927) was a French wrestler and rugby player. He competed in the freestyle featherweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Calixte Delmas
Delmas in 1927
Born	(1906-01-18)18 January 1906 Perpignan, France
Died	5 April 1927(1927-04-05) (aged 21) 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, birth date wrong on the statue).^[2]