{{short description|French wrestler}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox amateur wrestler |name = Calixte Delmas |image = Calixte Delmas 1927 french-champion.jpg |caption = Delmas in 1927 |weight = |birth_date = {{birth date|1906|1|18|df=yes}} |birth_place = Perpignan, France |death_date = {{death date and age|1927|4|5|1906|1|18|df=yes}} |death_place = Joinville-le-Pont, France |high school = |olympic team = }}
'''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.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/calixte-delmas-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417201148/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/calixte-delmas-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Calixte Delmas Olympic Results |access-date=8 September 2013 |work=sports-reference.com}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://parisisinvisible.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-sporting-star-who-fell-to-earth.html|title=The sporting star who fell to earth|last=Adam|date=12 May 2016|website=The sporting star who fell to earth ~ Invisible Paris|access-date=28 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="sports-reference" />
He died from an accident at the military school in Joinville-le-Pont.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://alpra.blogspot.com/2015/03/lutteursde-pere-en-fils-1886-2015.html|title=jean-luc/alpra/bob: LUTTEURS...........de père en FILS ( 1886 / 2015 )|last=Alpra|first=Bob|date=27 March 2015|website=jean-luc/alpra/bob|access-date=28 November 2018}}</ref> He fell from a human pyramid and broke his neck.<ref name=":0" />
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).<ref name=":0" />
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