Birth Date: | 5 June 1892 |
Birth Place: | Valga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Tallinn, Generalbezirk Estland |
Sport: | Weightlifting |
Club: | Kalev Tartu |
Weight: | 75 kg |
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. In 1925 he won his only national weightlifting title. After retiring from competitions he ran his metal workshop in Tallinn.[1] He died there in 1944 during a Soviet air raid.[2]