Sport: Figure Skating Inducted: 1987 Country: France Born: August 31, 1940 in Paris, France
Alain Calmat
won the Men’s World Figure Skating Championship in
1965. He was also a silver medalist at the 1964 Winter Olympic
Games and silver medalist in the World Championships of 1963
and 1964.
He captured the European Figure Skating Championships in
1962, 1963, and 1966.
At the 1968 Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, Calmat
was selected to carry the torch and light the Olympic flame.
He was the first and, to date, the only Jew ever to be so
honored.
