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Jaan Kikkas

1892 - 1944

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Juhan "Jaan" Kikkas (5 June 1892 – 9 March 1944) was an Estonian middleweight weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics, setting a world record in the snatch.Kikkas first trained as a cyclist, and changed to weightlifting in 1921, aged 29. Next year he placed fourth at the world championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaan Kikkas has received more than 11,682 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jaan Kikkas is the 299th most popular athlete (up from 379th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 120th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Estonian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jaan Kikkas ranks 299 out of 3,059Before her are Ivo Van Damme, Yrjö Nikkanen, Henry Carr, Nam Sung-yong, Jean Shiley, and John Kuck. After her are Maria Itkina, Miruts Yifter, Hallgeir Brenden, Julius Saaristo, Glenn Davis, and Charles Winckler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Jaan Kikkas ranks 188Before her are Peter Romanovsky, Mahadev Desai, Mississippi John Hurt, Ólafur Thors, Hal Foster, and Kiyotake Kawaguchi. After her are Wendell Willkie, Peter Doi, Ludwig Berger, P. C. Chang, Stanisław Ostrowski, and Jean de Bie. Among people deceased in 1944, Jaan Kikkas ranks 215Before her are Henryk Sławik, Yevgeniya Rudneva, Henry Wood, Aino Ackté, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, and Jędrzej Moraczewski. After her are Wendell Willkie, Mariya Oktyabrskaya, Arthur Blake, Pierre Brossolette, Dietrich Kraiss, and Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Jaan Kikkas ranks 112 out of 310Before her are Valeri Karpin (1969), Artur Kapp (1878), Jaak Uudmäe (1954), Arnold Meri (1919), Tiit Vähi (1947), and Andres Tarand (1940). After her are Juhan Liiv (1864), Friedebert Tuglas (1886), Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1805), Rudolf Tobias (1873), Johannes Kotkas (1915), and Jakob Hurt (1839).

Among ATHLETES In Estonia

Among athletes born in Estonia, Jaan Kikkas ranks 7Before her are Jüri Lossmann (1891), Alfred Schmidt (1898), Jüri Tamm (1957), Aleksander Klumberg (1899), Harald Tammer (1899), and Jaak Uudmäe (1954). After her are Jüri Tarmak (1946), Arnold Luhaäär (1905), Ilmar Kullam (1922), Roman Steinberg (1900), Jaan Talts (1944), and Adalberts Bubenko (1910).