Henri Callot
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Eugène Henri Callot (20 December 1875 – 22 December 1956) was a French fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1] He was born in La Rochelle.
Callot won the silver medal in the amateur foil event. He went undefeated in his preliminary round group, defeating Henri Delaborde, Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, and Ioannis Poulos. He then faced fellow Frenchman Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, who had gone undefeated in the other preliminary group, in a final match. There, he lost to Gravelotte 3–2.[2]
He was also a student of Jules Lefebvre and Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. He exhibited at the Salon des artistes français, of which he was a member from 1898.
Callot died in Paris on 22 December 1956, aged 80.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Henri Callot". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
- ↑ "Henri Callot Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
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