Aubert Côté

Aubert Côté
Personal information
Born	March 22, 1880; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died	March 27, 1938 (aged 58); Provo, Utah, U.S.
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing Canada
Olympic Games

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

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

^ 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

Aubert Coté at the International Wrestling Database
Aubert Coté at Olympics.com
Aubert Coté at Olympedia
Aubert Coté at Team Canada

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[1] 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.

[2] "Aubert Côté". Olympedia. Retrieved April 13, 2021.

[3] "Aubert COTE". Olympics.com. Retrieved January 26, 2022.

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