Chester Newton

{{short description|American wrestler}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

|birth_date={{birth date|1903|9|18}}

|birth_place=Canby, Oregon, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1966|5|11|1903|9|18}}

|death_place=Oregon City, Oregon, U.S.

|country=United States

|team=USA

|sport=Wrestling

|event=Freestyle and Folkstyle

|collegeteam=Oregon State

|medaltemplates=

{{MedalSport | Men's freestyle wrestling}}

{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

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{{MedalSilver | 1924 Paris | 61 kg}}

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Chester Willard "Chet" Newton (September 18, 1903 – May 11, 1966) was an Olympic wrestler for the United States. He won a silver medal in the featherweight division at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, losing only to fellow Oregon State University alumnus and teammate Robin Reed in the finals.{{cite web|url=http://alumni.oregonstate.edu/eclips/history/osuolympics.html |title=Oregon State: Meet the Olympians |accessdate=2007-02-04 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206210443/http://alumni.oregonstate.edu/eclips/history/osuolympics.html |archive-date=2007-12-06 }}{{cite book|last=Welsch |first=Jeff |title=Tales from Oregon State Sports|year=2003|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC|isbn=978-1-58261-706-0|pages=26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-VvQ8F8s_20C&pg=PA26 |author2=George P Edmonston |accessdate=23 August 2010}} Reed was also the only man to defeat Newton at the Olympic Trials in New York.{{cite magazine|last=Cram|first=Charles C.|date=January 1925|volume=11|number=4|magazine=The Emerald of Sigma Pi|title=Omega Busy With Activities|pages=288–290|url=http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/Archive/Emerald/1925/SP_EMERALD_VOL_11_NO_4_JAN_1925.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314152312/http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/Archive/Emerald/1925/SP_EMERALD_VOL_11_NO_4_JAN_1925.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 14, 2017}}

While at Oregon State, Newton was also a member of Sigma Pi fraternity and the cross country team.{{cite magazine|last=Gardner|first=Paul H.|date=January 1928|volume=14|number=4|magazine=The Emerald of Sigma Pi|title=Omegans Win Cross Country Plaque|pages=359–362|url=http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/Archive/Emerald/1928/SP_EMERALD_VOL_11_NO_4_JAN_1928.pdf}}{{dead link|date=December 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} When his eligibility for collegiate wrestling ended he became a wrestling coach for the college. After graduation he became a teacher in Tillamook, Oregon.{{cite magazine|date=July 1930|volume=17|number=2|magazine=The Emerald of Sigma Pi|title=News of Many Omegans Told|pages=117–118|url=http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/Archive/Emerald/1930/SP_EMERALD_VOL_17_NO_2_JULY_1930.pdf|access-date=2017-03-13|archive-date=2016-08-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820194314/http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/1930/SP_EMERALD_VOL_17_NO_2_JULY_1930.pdf|url-status=usurped}}

He was elected to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1980 and to the Oregon State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991.{{cite web|url=http://www.osubeavers.com/pdf2/52365.pdf?ATCLID=693204&SPSID=37974&SPID=1958&DB_OEM_ID=4700|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715014551/http://www.osubeavers.com/pdf2/52365.pdf?ATCLID=693204&SPSID=37974&SPID=1958&DB_OEM_ID=4700|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-07-15|title=2006-07 OSU Wrestling Media Guide Part 4 - Records, honors, history|accessdate=2007-02-04}}

He died in a car accident in Oregon City, Oregon in 1966, at the age of 62.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/chet-newton-1.html |title=Chester Newton Olympic Results |accessdate=2013-09-08 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130924002921/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/chet-newton-1.html |archive-date=2013-09-24 }}