Aubert Côté
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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] 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.[2]
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 of 1938.
References
[edit]- ^ "Aubert Côté". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
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External links
[edit]https://olympics.com/en/athletes/aubert-cote#b2p-athlete-olympic-results
- 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