Aubert Côté
Appearance
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Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | March 22, 1880||||||||||||||
Died | March 27, 1938 Provo, Utah, U.S. | (aged 58)||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Aubert Côté (March 22, 1880 – March 27, 1938) was a Canadian wrestler who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was born in Montreal in 1880. In 1908, he won the bronze medal in the freestyle bantamweight category.[1][2] He earned Canada's first Olympic medal in wrestling. He defeated Frank Davis of Great Britain in the first round and eventually lost to gold medalist George Mehnert from the United States. After that, he went on to beat Frederick Tomkins from Great Britain, earning the bronze medal.[3]
After the Olympics
[edit]He later moved to Montana in the United States. After this, he moved again to Utah, where he settled down and worked as a wrestling coach at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah until his death in March 1938.
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aubert Côté". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016.
- ^ "Aubert Côté". Olympedia. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
- ^ "Aubert COTE". Olympics.com. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
External links
[edit]- Aubert Coté at the International Wrestling Database
- Aubert Coté at Olympics.com
- Aubert Coté at Olympedia
- Aubert Coté at Team Canada
Categories:
- 1880 births
- 1938 deaths
- Olympic wrestlers for Canada
- Wrestlers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Canadian male sport wrestlers
- Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Sport wrestlers from Quebec
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Canadian sportsmen
- Canadian sport wrestler stubs
- Canadian Olympic medalist stubs