Alain Calmat

Alain Calmat is old a artistic skater, doctor and politician French (born the August 31st 1940 with Paris). He is current member of the Académie of the Sports.

Figure skating

It makes its beginnings at 9 years. It will be involved under the orders of Jacqueline Vaudecrane with Boulogne-Billancourt, with for companion Alain Giletti. It will take its sporting retirement at 24 years, and will become thereafter president of the Committee of ice-skating to the Federation.

World champion (with Colorado Springs): in 1965
Champion of Europe: in 1962,1963 and 1964
Champion of France: in 1958,1962,1963,1964 and 1965
medal of money to the Olympic Games; in 1964 (with Innsbruck)

At the time of the Olympic Games of Grenoble, in 1968, it lit the Olympic flame

He was regarded as a skater of a great elegance, equipped with an innate artistic direction, but also with a very sharp sensitivity, which could, at certain moments, to serve it, because of a great emotivity at the time of the great Olympic appointments. At the same time, to Grenoble, whereas it did not have any more on its shoulders the weight of the competition, it contributed to create within the team of France, a mood of d3etente, user-friendliness, of festival, thanks to its talents of singer and guitarist; (he knows the repertory of Brassens perfectly, and is accompanied with the guitar); these confidences were made by him during an emission of France-Inter, entitled " the Ear in coin".

He was also an example of will and courage; born in a modest milieu (his/her parents were dyers), it was, thanks to a keen work (it was involved every morning starting from 5:00) one of the first sportsmen to combine professional success and sporting success.

Medicine

Intern of Paris; for this reason it took part in the team which carried out the first cardiac grafts in France.
Senior registrar then department head of digestive surgery to the hospital of Montfermeil
Surgeon until 1984, of 1993 to 1995, then of 2002 to 2005.

Policy

Alain Calmat was deputy secretary with the Youth and the Sports from July 23rd, 1984 to March 20th, 1986, under the Gouvernement Laurent Fabius, setting up in particular the " contracts bleus"
Appointed Expensive (various left, connected socialist) of 1986 to 1993 (of 1988 to 1993, elected 3rd district - Bourges _ Saint-Amand-Montrond, it beat Serge Vinçon, mayor of Amand Saint)
Regional adviser of the center until 1999
Élu mayor of Livry-Gargan (Seine-Saint-Denis) in 1995, re-elected in 2001
Député-maire of Livry-Gargan of 1997 to 2002

Others

He is father of 4 children

He is Officer of the Legion of Honor (it is the Général de Gaulle which gave the cross of knight to him) and commander of the national order of the merit.

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