Competitor for

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

Otto Lorne Christman (February 20, 1880 – September 26, 1963) was a Canadian amateur

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who competed in the

1904 Summer Olympics The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended s ...

. In 1904 Christman was a member of the

Galt F.C. Galt Football Club was a soccer club based in Galt, Ontario, current day Cambridge, Ontario. It was formed in either 1881 or 1882. Galt won the 1901, 1902, and 1903 Ontario Cups, and most notably the 1904 Olympic soccer tournament. History G ...

team, which won the gold medal in the soccer tournament. He played one match as a midfielder. He died in 1963 in Orillia, Ontario, and is buried in the Elmira Union Cemetery in Waterloo County, Ontario.

References

External links

Otto Christman's profile at Sports Reference.com
1880 births 1963 deaths Canadian men's soccer players Men's association football midfielders Footballers at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Canada Olympic soccer players for Canada Soccer people from Ontario Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics {{Canada-footy-bio-stub