Robert Tikkanen

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Marksman

FinlandFinland Finland
Olympic games
silver 1920 Antwerp Running stag single shot team
bronze 1920 Antwerp Running stag double shot team
bronze 1924 Paris Clay pigeon shooting team

Toivo Robert Tikkanen (born April 15, 1888 in Rome , † June 1, 1947 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish marksman and architect .

Tikkanen was born in 1888 to the art historian Johan Jakob Tikkanen and his wife Augusta Emilia Westzynthius. His grandfather was Paavo Tikkanen , who founded the first major Finnish-language newspaper Suometar in 1847 . Tikkanen was married three times. His first wife was Ingrid Fazer, the second Kyllikki Vitali and the third Marga Hertell. From his second marriage to Kyllikki Vitali comes his son Henrik Tikkanen (1924-1984), a well-known Finnish writer and illustrator, who was married to Märta Tikkanen .

Robert Tikkanen studied at the Technical University of Dresden and played ice hockey for the Academic Sports Club Dresden between 1908 and 1911 .

Robert Tikkanen worked as an architect. Many of his designs were realized in downtown Helsinki between 1917 and 1929. He was also active as a marksman and took part in the Olympic Games twice. At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp , he won a silver medal in the team competition running stag single shot and a bronze medal in the team competition running stag double shot . In 1924 he was able to win another bronze medal in the clay pigeon shooting team at the Games in Paris .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pasi Mennander: Leijonat - Milestones of Finnish Ice Hockey. In: leijonat.fi. Retrieved February 13, 2020 (Finnish).
  2. ^ ASC Dresde - Brussels IHC (February 6, 1909)
personal data
SURNAME Tikkanen, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tikkanen, Toivo Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish marksman and architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1947
Place of death Helsinki , Finland