Irving Calkins | |
Birth Name: | Irving Romaro Calkins |
Birth Date: | 31 October 1875 |
Birth Place: | Palmer, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Death Place: | Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Sport: | Sports shooting |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Irving Romaro Calkins (October 31, 1875 - August 26, 1958) was an American physician and sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]
Irving Calkins was born in Palmer, Massachusetts on October 31, 1875.[2]
He studied at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Vermont, and earned a medical degree from Baltimore Medical College in 1896.[2]
At the 1908 Olympics he won a gold medal in the team pistol event and finished in eighth place in the individual pistol event. He became world champion in 1923.[3]
He died in Springfield, Massachusetts on August 26, 1958.[4]